• Investidura.Albert Rivera proposes to Pablo Casado to offer Pedro Sánchez a constitutional pact to facilitate his investiture
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  • Government: Pedro Sánchez says he already meets the three conditions of Albert Rivera and hopes that Ciudadanos and the PP support the investiture

Albert Rivera's proposal to Pablo Casado to abstain together to facilitate the investiture of Sánchez with three conditions has taken the first representatives of the parliamentary groups who have attended the round of consultations with the King. The surprise has left them with virtually no reaction capacity and they have chosen to deploy before the press the arguments they had prepared in advance, despite this, the general impression of those cited on this first day is that the proposal will not prosper.

Thus, all those summoned, despite their ideological differences, have agreed to predict that the country is heading for new elections on November 10 because "Sanchez does not want the agreement." All have also agreed that the role of Felipe VI in this trance is to "listen", according to the functions reserved by the Constitution, and not to "mediate" between political forces. The Monarch himself has specified it in several of the conversations held.

Of the eight formations that have visited the Monarch -PRC, Compromís, Equo, Navarra Suma, Canary Coalition, In Marea, United Left and PNV-, only the first, the Cantabria Regionalist Party of Miguel Ángel Revilla has ensured that, in case If there is a new investiture attempt with Pedro Sánchez as a candidate, his vote will be in favor. In this way, the socialist leader would have the 123 yeses of his parliamentary group plus that of the only PRC deputy in the House.

On the contrary, Compromís, represented by Joan Baldoví, has lamented the inability of the left to reach an agreement and has insisted that unless the PSOE unexpectedly turns in favor of the requests that were presented in July, they will remain in abstention.

Baldoví has ​​urged Sanchez to recover the offer he launched a month and a half ago to United We, that is, a vice-presidency and three ministries, and the formation of Pablo Iglesias to give up any requirement or added more.

In any case, the Compromís deputy believes that Spain is heading back to the polls and warns that, in that scenario, the "greater wear will suffer the left." "Beware of the idus of November," he warned after insisting that he sees progressive voters disappointed and angry.

The representative of Equo, one of the confluences of United Podemos, Juan López de Uralde, has also held the socialist leader responsible for the impossibility of forming an Executive in alliance with the purple formation. He has also reproached Sanchez for not wanting the leftist pact to govern in coalition and push the country to new elections. "We will continue with the hand extended until the last minute," he added, even without hope that the gesture will get an answer. The position of the Equo representative is the same as that maintained by his confederal group partners: In Marea and Izquierda Unuida. All the forces that come together in United We agree to unload the burden of guilt for the non-agreement in the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez.

López de Uralde has also interpreted the surprise proposal launched by Citizens as an example of the "concern and despair" of Albert Rivera, an assessment in which he coincides with the representative of the Canary Coalition, Ana Oramas.

The representative of Unión del Pueblo Navarro, Javier Esparza, who has two deputies in Congress, has announced that if there were an investiture, UPN will vote 'no'. He recalled that Sánchez "slammed the door" at the offer he made in his day UPN to support him and, moreover, has given the approval of a socialist government in Navarra thanks to the abstention of EH Bildu.

"Sanchez chose partners that are not constitutionalists and has dynamited any present or future agreement with PP, Cs and UPN," he said accusing the leader of the PSOE of "irresponsibility."

Esparza has also referred to the proposal of Citizens ensuring that it has its support although it has taken for granted that it will not be accepted by the PSOE.

Oramas, of CC, has also lamented Sanchez's attitude from the beginning refusing to engage in genuine negotiation with the parliamentary forces. The Canarian deputy has spoken of an "absolute disaffection" of citizenship in view of the inability of the parties to agree on a government. She, like her predecessors, has stressed that Sanchez "had no interest in reaching agreements."

In his opinion, there will be elections in November and the situation will be very similar with the only difference that by then we will be in the middle of the "perfect storm" with a political, institutional and economic crisis.

Regarding the role that Felipe VI is playing with this round of consultations, the deputy has assured not to see the Monarch "neither pessimistic nor euphoric, but worried." "He's doing," he said, "what you have to do is listen."

The spokesman for the PNV in Congress, Aitor Esteban, resigns, as usual, to appear before the press after his meeting with the King. Despite this, the Basque nationalists have shown their impression regarding the political future by announcing that the EBB will propose to the National Assembly the ratification of the lists with which it already attended the elections of 28-A, in clear anticipation that they will open the polls again on November 10.

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