Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy suffered a setback in his bid to stay in office as the Socialists refused yesterday to back his attempt to form a new government following an inconclusive general election.
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Rajoy’s right-wing People’s Party (PP) emerged with the most votes in Sunday’s election in Spain, gaining 123 seats but falling short of a majority in the 350-seat legislature.
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Sunday saw the Socialists finish second with 90 seats, while the left wing Podemos won 69 and center-right Citizens 40.
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“We will not support Rajoy or the PP as the ongoing leader of our government”.
If he falls short, he must get more votes for him than against him in a second ballot 48 hours later.
Ciudadanos has said it would abstain in a parliamentary vote on a new PP administration.
Ciudadanos, which shares numerous Popular Party’s economic policies, has said it will abstain.
According to the BBC, Mr. Sanchez after a brief meeting with the prime minister, insisted Spain needed a change of government.
The Socialist leader reiterated that the PP should be the first to try to form a government since it won the most votes.
“Spain can not afford a period of political lack of clarity that would spoil the progress achieved during these years”, continued Rajoy, who said he would act with “generosity” in his talks with other party leaders.
That outcome would mirror events in neighboring Portugal where the ruling conservatives won an October election but fell to a Socialist government backed by leftist parties just days later.
Neither option is attractive because linking up with anti-austerity Podemos could divide the Socialists while they could be accused of destabilizing Spain if they are blamed for forcing new elections.
Mr Rajoy is also firmly opposed to any Catalan referendum on independence, while the Socialists say they are prepared to discuss constitutional reform.
“No to Rajoy means yes to change”, Sanchez said, after a meeting with the Prime Minister, adding that he did not want fresh elections.
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Rajoy is hedging his bets that both Socialist chief Pedro Sánchez and Ciudadanos’s Rivera will have enough “sense of state” to allow him to form a minority government. Podemos’s leader, Pablo Iglesias, said in column for Huffington Post on Wednesday that the Socialists and Ciudadanos should join Podemos in backing an independent candidate to oust Rajoy.
