The King receives on Thursday the president of Congress to prepare the round of consultations on the investiture

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Felipe VI receives Meritxel Batet, president of Congress, at the Palacio de la Zarzuela early this morning to prepare the impending round of consultations with political leaders, after which he will determine if he designates Pedro Sánchez again as candidate for the investiture or commitment to dissolve the Cortes for the holding of new elections.

In Zarzuela, given the complex political situation in the country, with a new blockade, they have chosen to follow the same steps as in 2016, when the candidate with more options was Mariano Rajoy. The King will hold a new round of consultations to test first hand the intentions and the different political leaders and press if Sanchez has any possibility of adding a majority in Congress.

As this newspaper has reported, the blockade introduces a new actor on the scene: the Monarch, whose power is to designate a new investor candidate or not. Although the repetition of new elections is a sure bet in the political sphere, Felipe VI maintains his purpose of "exhausting the deadlines for verifying the willingness of political representatives" to reach a pact or not.

"In due course, the King will communicate the dates of the consultation to the president of the Congress," Zarzuela sources explain. The time is this Thursday, just one day after certifying in Congress the discrepancies and the abyss that separate PSOE and Unidos Podemos. The calendar and the experience accumulated in 2016 indicate that the King will convene the round at the beginning of next week - it is possible that Monday and Tuesday - to allow for room to call a new investiture plenary at the end of the week and can vote before from Monday 23. For example, on Wednesday the Plenary will be convened for Thursday and you can vote on Friday and Sunday. That is, it leaves Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias a few more days to rectify or resume the dialogue after an agreement.

Everything, as long as the King verifies that Sanchez is able to add the necessary support to be invested. If not, the resolution of the King will be to not designate any candidate and dissolve the Cortes on September 23.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• Philip VI
• Meritxell Batet
• President's Investiture
• Pedro Sanchez

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