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  • Politics: The King will designate Pedro Sánchez next Wednesday for investiture

Second and final day of contacts between the King and the representatives of the parliamentary forces with an eye on the designation, predictably this afternoon, of the socialist leader Pedro Sánchez as a candidate for investiture. The acting president leads the party that obtained the best result at the polls of 10-N but does not yet have sufficient support to guarantee the confidence of Congress. His hope is set in the abstention of the thirteen deputies of ERC, the secessionist party with which he has been negotiating for two weeks. Of these conversations whose content remains opaque, Sanchez will inform Felipe VI. The meeting between the two will close the round of contacts and the Monarch, after summoning the president of Congress, will announce his decision: he can now propose to the socialist leader as an investor candidate or reserve himself waiting for him to prove the necessary support to move it forward. .

United Left

Alberto Garzón was today the first visitor of Zarzuela. The UI leader of the Confederal group of United We have confirmed to Felipe VI the support he will give to the investiture and a future Government of Pedro Sánchez of which they would be part. Garzón has referred to the King as "the citizen Felipe de Borbón" with whom he has claimed to have shared reflections and to whom he has moved his "yearning" to bring to fruition the agreement signed between Sánchez and Iglesias after 10-N. It is, he said, an aspiration that still lacks "some fringes" in reference to the unfinished pact between the PSOE and ERC. Garzón has taken the opportunity to attack the right and right center forces by calling them "reactionary" and has defended the dialogue with the independence forces as the only way to address a progressive and pluralistic project. "We are optimistic," he said, "but we cannot set a date; we cannot yet give that guarantee about a negotiation in which we do not intervene."

Garzón in any case has assured "not to conceive" that the negotiations fail because in his opinion the PSOE-Unidos Podemos coalition government can be the only one that can solve the territorial problem. The leader of IU has urged Catalan society to reflect on it.

PNV

The representative of the PNV, Aitor Esteban, has been the second to meet with the Head of State but true to his custom has refused to appear at the end of the meeting before the press. The Basque nationalists have six deputies in Congress and are willing to facilitate with their vote the investiture of Sanchez prior to the commitment of the PSOE to meet their demands for more investment and more self-government. Esteban is convinced that finally there will be an agreement between the PSOE and ERC that will facilitate the investiture and the formation of a coalition executive between Socialists and United We can.

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