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The PP and Citizens have categorically rejected the agreement signed Tuesday by Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias to govern in coalition. The Popular Party believes that the agreement reached by the PSOE and Unidos Podemos is a "drama for Spain", and clearly staged that Sánchez is incompatible with the popular . Citizens, meanwhile, has described it as "disastrous and contrary to the interests of the majority of Spaniards", as stated in a statement sent by the Orange Party.

The president of the main opposition party, Pablo Casado, has appeared before the media to assess the agreement. In his view, now "it is more urgent" even "for the historical Socialist Party to return." "It is more urgent that Sanchez leaves and the sensible PSOE returns," he insisted, because the president "is the plug to any logic of pact" with constitutional formations.

That is where Casado has confirmed that he will not provide any kind of assistance to Sánchez's governance. "Our project is incompatible with Sánchez's program and we are not going to be participants before his announced pact with the radical left or the dialogue with the Generalitat, which is installed in illegality," said the leader of the popular .

The president of the PP, who has not admitted questions from the press for having a meal with the barons of his party, has revealed that Sanchez has not called him on the phone. He did it on election night, to congratulate him on the victory, but without success. The president only acknowledged receipt of the call without returning it. It was Monday, by WhatsApp message.

"Sanchez has chosen. He will not be able to say that he has not had another option," said Casado. "He says he will call other political forces ... but at no time had he left the door open to work on those 11 state pacts" proposed by the PP, nor has he ever been willing "to revoke agreements with independentists," He has shaved. "You can not pretend to tie a left shoe and a right shoe to pretend to walk better. What is needed is to walk in parallel, and the PSOE since 2003 does not," he complained. "It is said in Spain that the goat throws into the bush," he insisted.

"For this trip, there was no need for saddlebags"

The popular have heard the news of the agreement during the National Executive Committee of the PP, which was held on Tuesday to analyze the election results. In Casado's opinion, the promptness with which they have reached a pact between Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias exemplifies that the elections were not necessary: ​​"For this trip, there was no need for saddlebags. The 200 million that the electoral repetition has cost does not they will have taken the dream away from Sanchez, but yes to many Spaniards. "

In that situation, the opposition leader wanted to send a message of encouragement to his electorate: "If this agreement is not going well, the PP is with the Spaniards to guarantee the alternative without extremisms." And he has warned them that "if Sanchez is able to do government, it is because our proposal for Spain Suma did not go ahead."

In fact, Genoa has calculated that the PP and Citizens would have won 118 seats and Spain Suma would have been the winner of the elections, "having the PSOE 115". "There are 800,000 votes of Citizens who have not had representation and another 300,000 of Vox that have not had: the fragmentation of vote has once again been fulfilled," said Casado.

"There will only be one alternative joining the vote," said Casado, after EL MUNDO has advanced that Genoa is already working on the recast with Citizens in the "medium term" and that there have already been contacts with Inés Arrimadas, to which in the PP come as successor to Albert Rivera.

"Government of constitutional concentration"

The spokeswoman of the PP in the Congress of Deputies, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, has gone further. He has taken the floor in the National Executive Committee of the party to ask for "a Government of constitutional concentration", as this newspaper has learned. That is, an Executive that will include the PSOE, the PP and Citizens. In his opinion, it is a "historical commitment".

Sources of the Committee assure that the deputy for Barcelona had planned to intervene in this regard, but has done so "with more reason" after knowing the governance pact of the PSOE and United We can. "That it is not for us," Alvarez de Toledo asked the barons of the PP and Pablo Casado, who presided over the meeting.

That "Government of constitutional concentration" would be done with "sharp and non-negotiable conditions," especially "breaking agreements with nationalists in all places," said Alvarez de Toledo. In addition, no government could be left "in the hands of seditious" and should be included, in any case, the orange formation.

This has been made compatible by the deputy with a resounding "no" to abstention before Pedro Sánchez. Or Government or nothing so that Pablo Casado could "mark" Sanchez closely. Because, in his opinion, that Government would be "constitutional" because the PP would be inside. If not, it would not be.

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