The Plenary of the Congress of Deputies has given its confidence to Pedro Sánchez as President of the Authorities. The candidate has achieved the assist of absolutely the majority of the Chamber with 179 votes in favour and 171 votes in opposition to.
The President of Congress, Francina Armengol, will talk the results of the vote to His Majesty The King in order that he might appoint Sánchez as president, as decided by article 171.6 of the Guidelines of Process of Congress.
- The candidate obtains the boldness of the Home with 179 votes in favour and 171 in opposition to.
- The President of Congress will talk the results of the vote to His Majesty the King for the appointment of the pinnacle of the Government.
This second day of the investiture session started with the speeches of the representatives of the teams that didn’t communicate on Wednesday, with a time restrict of half-hour for every one. Mertxe Aizpurua, from the Euskal Herria Bildu Group; Aitor Esteban, from the Basque Group (EAJ-PNV); and the deputies Néstor Rego (Bloque Nacionalista Galego), Cristina Valido (Coalición Canaria) and Alberto Catalán (Unión del Pueblo Navarro), members of the Blended Group, took the ground. The talk was concluded by the spokesman for the Socialist Group, Patxi López.
After the speeches, the general public vote was taken by roll-call. Members had been named one after the other, in alphabetical order, beginning with José Ramón Gómez Besteiro, who was chosen at random. The vote was closed by the performing authorities, who’re Members of Parliament, and the members of the Bureau, with the President in final place.
The members of the Socialist Group, the Plurinational SUMAR Group, the Republican Group, the Junts per Catalunya Group, the Euskal Herria Bildu Group, the Basque Group (EAJ-PNV) and the deputies of the Bloque Nacionalista Galego (BNG) and Coalición Canaria, members of the Blended Group, voted in favour of the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
All collectively they’ve 179 votes, surpassing absolutely the majority (176 MPs) wanted for the investiture. The In style Group, the VOX Group and the deputy of the Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN), with a complete of 171 votes, voted in opposition to.
Candidate’s nomination debate
The investiture debate, supplied for in article 99 of the Structure and controlled in articles 170 to 172 of the Guidelines of Process of the Congress of Deputies, started this Wednesday at 12:00 midday with the speech of the candidate for President of the Authorities, who offered the Authorities’s programme to the Home with out time restrict and requested Congress for its confidence.
After Pedro Sánchez’s speech, the President of Congress, Francina Armengol, suspended the session. It resumed at 3:30 p.m. with the representatives of the parliamentary teams talking, so as from largest to smallest, for a most of thirty minutes. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, from the In style Group; Santiago Abascal, from the VOX Group; Yolanda Díaz, from the Plurinational SUMAR Group; Gabriel Rufián, from the Republican Group; and Miriam Nogueras, from the Junts de Catalunya Group, took the ground. Pedro Sánchez was ready to answer them one after the other or in teams. The second intervention of the parliamentary teams was in accordance with the regulatory ten-minute time restrict.