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The acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will respect the usual protocol. On Monday, when the battery of calls with the regional presidents starts, he will call first the Basque Country's lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, and secondly, the president of the Generalitat, Quim Torra.

"It is important that I meet with the leader of the PP, with Mrs. Arrimadas as spokesperson for Citizens. And I must say that it is important that we all feel concerned, it is essential to start up the Government because you have to get out of the impasse of being in functions.It is also important for the Autonomous Communities, and for Catalonia, that there is a Government in Spain.That is why it is necessary to speak with everyone, to transfer the urgency.We will maintain the traditional order of meeting, based on the age of the autonomous statutes , which is the protocol marked, not mine. I will call him the second after the lehendakari . " This was explained by Sánchez this noon in Brussels, upon his arrival at the meeting of the EU Heads of State and Government in Brussels.

A few hours after his appearance in Madrid, the president has reiterated the messages of the last days and weeks, criticizing the Popular Party and thanking ERC for its availability. "After 10-N there were three possibilities: either it helps to form a government, or it is facilitated to form or block. And I think we have seen all three. There are left progressive forces, UP and PSOE, that we have left behind the past quarrels to put forward an exciting proposal for the citizens as a whole, we have given way to the front, an exit to the political blockade, then there are others who have said that they will not block Regionalists, nationalists such as the PNV and other independentists such as ERC, and I have to thank you for raising your hand and saying that you do not disregard governance, "he said.

Just a few hours after Pablo Casado, also from Brussels, criticized precisely that round with the CCAA, which he described as "comparsa", Sanchez has replied pointing to what he considers a dangerous incoherence. "The PP and the ultra-right have said that they will not facilitate the investiture. From the extreme right I hope, from the one who gives lessons of constitutionalism and the rule of law, no. I do not understand how after five times of having voted the Spaniards, in which always the PSOE has won a long distance, continue in the blockade and the non-facilitation of the only possible alternative, "said Sánchez.

The president has not wanted to outline a possible calendar, given the complicated dates. "The important thing is what and then when. The parties have been criticized for waiting for the head of state to entrust a candidate with the round of consultations. And it was said that there was no need to wait for the constitution of the courts. Well, the PSOE has done that, we put forward a proposal 48 hours after the elections and we propose talks with all the forces.We have always said, it is not new, and I share Mr. Iglesias' approach that the first thing is discrete negotiation and then that the agreement be public. It is moving forward and doing so in positive terms, "he said.

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