New movement on the political board: the Canary Islands Coalition (CC) is willing to support an eventual investiture of the leader of the winner of the elections, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, once “Vox's participation in a future government led by the PP” has been ruled out.

In this way, the party that will have deputy Cristina Valido as its representative in Congress transfers all the pressure to the PSOE 10 days after the composition of the Board of the Lower House is decided. If your vote joins the right-wing bloc, it would add one more seat than the potential partners of Pedro Sánchez, who would no longer be worth it just with an abstention from Junts.

In CC they continue to show their predisposition to sit down and talk about the problems of the Canary Islands “with whoever is going to present themselves for the investiture”, which includes the acting president. “But one of our red lines, that of Vox in the Government, no longer exists, so it seems that this alternative of dialogue and support is opening up,” they specify..

For its part, the PP highlights that with the resignation of Santiago Abascal's party to demand to be part of a government in exchange for their votes, it has managed to secure the support of its 33 representatives. In addition, they highlight that today they have not only achieved the support of the UPN deputy, but also “the Central Electoral Board has shielded seat 16, for a total of 137, for the province of Madrid”.

“At this moment, after winning the elections with the best percentage of the vote for the Popular Party since 2011, after climbing 48 seats, and after being the first president of the PP to win the general elections on the first try and after only 16 months in office , Feijóo has 171 votes in favor to preside over a government alone”, they emphasize in the direction of Genoa.

Where they insist: “For that same challenge, Pedro Sánchez would have 50 fewer seats. It can add 30 if instead of a lone government it guarantees a coalition with the 18 parties that make up Sumar (among which are Podemos and the PCE). But to overcome those that would still separate him from Feijóo, he would need the express support of the rest of the parliamentary arc.”.

“In other words, Feijóo is five seats away from assembling a majority for a lone government and Sánchez could only avoid it if, after losing the elections, he tries what no one has ever done: opt for an investiture after being defeated and opting for it at support of each and every one of the nationalist or pro-independence parties of our country”, they add in the popular leadership. In addition, they reproach him for the fact that, despite filling his mouth with “constitutionalism”, “he obviates in all his interventions” article 99 of the Spanish Constitution, which stipulates that it is the King who has to propose a candidate for the Presidency of the Government.

“This is what we have been saying since the day of the elections, while the PP and Feijóo seem to live in their particular Matrix. The PSOE will continue working to articulate a majority in which Spain continues to grow, creating employment and advancing in rights”, they emphasize in the direction of Ferraz.

And they conclude with a heterogeneous combination of elements: “Feijóo's project of lies, evil and manipulation has failed. He continues without explaining his lies, he continues without explaining his bonus or his vacations with Marcial Dorado, a drug trafficker. He has linked his fate to the far right.”

The PNV slams the door definitively on the possibility of making Alberto Núñez Feijóo president after the step aside of Vox. The Basque nationalist formation maintains its no to the investiture after those of Santiago Abascal have given up demanding to enter the PP Government in exchange for their support.

“On July 24, the Euzkadi Buru Batzar established its position with crystal clarity. Given the attempt of some political and media actors, both in the Basque Country and in Spain, to build an alternative reality, we consider it opportune and convenient to refresh their memory”, the group led by Andoni Ortuzar pointed out in a tweet that links to another that they published in the same social network two weeks ago.

In said previous message, the PNV explained that its president had telephoned the winner of the elections that night, who “had tried to contact him previously throughout the day.”. During the conversation, they explained, he transferred the “refusal” of his party to “start conversations with a view to facilitating his investiture”, although they did not go into detail about the reasons.

The PP had gone up a gear and pressed the accelerator after the step to one side given by Vox. Those of Feijóo were trying to articulate a “solitary, broad and strong” government that would allow Pedro Sánchez's plan to reach the investiture with the support of the independence movement to be neutralized despite not being the most voted on 23-J.

“There will only be PP ministers”, the popular general coordinator, Elías Bendodo, asserted this Monday, who has accused Sánchez of “promoting” the blockade by not even congratulating the winner of the elections: “To sit down and talk, you have to recognize the victory of the PP”.

In the eyes of the PP, Vox's decision to facilitate the investiture of Feijóo and not demand to be part of the Council of Ministers “changes the rules of the game” and forces the parties that denied their support for the PP, such as the PNV, to reconsider their position. “It facilitates a possible investiture,” Bendodo opined in an interview in Cope.

“The rest of the parties have run out of excuses,” sources from the popular leadership acknowledge this Monday in the pages of EL MUNDO to celebrate how the passage of those from Abascal was a boost for Feijóo's aspirations. An objective that was still very far away, but that advanced despite Ferraz's attempts to trip, they said, the investiture of the popular leader.

However, 24 hours after the political movement, the PNV has completely cooled the expectations of Genoa. The Genoa count gives the PP a clear advantage over the PSOE: today Feijóo would only need six more seats to be president, while Sánchez, to achieve this, will have to reach an agreement and accommodate 24 formations in his executive, according to Bendodo specified.

In fact, with the decisive Vox statement this Sunday, the PP definitively closed the door to including any other party in the government equation and this Monday Bendodo promised a Council of Ministers that, despite being only made up of members of the PP, was “broad” and had room for “many sensibilities”.

The Central Electoral Board (JEC) has decided not to review the nearly 30,000 invalid votes that the PSOE challenged in the Madrid constituency. In this way, the PP officially obtains its seat 137 -16 in said region-, while the socialist force drops to 121 deputies -11 in the province of Madrid-.

In the legal text, the highest body of the electoral administration has defended its position stating that “an argument of this nature cannot be accepted, since it is contrary to the procedure established in the LOREG (Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime) and would make it unfeasible meet the legally established deadlines.

Of special relevance is one of his reasonings that he issues in the foundations of law: “The appellant does not allege any irregularity in the general scrutiny to justify the repetition that he requests, but limits himself to invoking his right to review the null vote indicating the closeness in the number of votes needed to modify the distribution of seats in the Madrid constituency”.

The JEC has also provided at the end of the letter that “against this Agreement there is no appeal”, although the decision of the Provincial Electoral Board “on the proclamation of elected officials” can be appealed through contentious-electoral means, “provided for in articles 109 and following of the electoral law.

According to PP sources, with regard to voting, the Electoral Board has ruled by 10 votes in favor and 3 against this decision.

AN INCREDIBLE DECISION

And it is that as this newspaper already anticipated exclusively last Tuesday, there would be no changes. The body chaired by Miguel Colmenero did not see it as feasible to review those thousands of invalid ballots that the party led by Pedro Sánchez claimed so as not to definitively lose its twelfth seat in Madrid. A key chair.

After the Provincial Board of Madrid did not agree to carry out the count of these thousands of invalid votes, the PSOE raised its demand to the JEC. Along these lines, they also stated that invalid votes that have been protested at the polling stations would normally be reviewed.. If not, it's hard.

THE PRECEDENTS OF THE DECISION

As a result of the rejection of the regional body, the PSOE released a statement in which it accused the Madrid delegation of having infringed the electoral regulations and of violating the Constitution by denying its request to review all the votes consigned as invalid.. Therefore, he asked the JEC to revoke the agreement of the regional board and agree to review all of them.

The PSOE calculated that it needed 1,341 valid votes, which is 4.43% of the 30,241 total to recover the seat that the PP obtained due to the vote of residents abroad.

In addition, the socialist group defended that its request was so “transcendent and justified” as the one made by the PP on July 30 when it urged the review of all invalid votes in Cantabria “since it was also at a short distance from a deputy from Vox”. The left-wing force pointed out that the PP ended up withdrawing that claim “most likely, so that it would not interfere in the decision” on the appeal raised by them in Madrid.

At the last moment, the elected deputy of Sumar and general secretary of the PCE, Enrique Santiago, joined Yolanda Díaz's party on Monday morning to the request made by the socialists by declaring: “We have adhered to that request and we understand that It is not so much effort to review 30,000 votes, especially when in this case the assignment of the last deputy depends on a thousand votes”. To which he added: “Our criteria is that they should be reviewed if there is a political force that is requesting it.. What's more, during the time between that refusal and a possible review by the JEC, there would have been plenty of time to review those votes and preserve the rights of everyone.”

THE FORMATION OF GOVERNMENT

This intensity that the PSOE has printed on the Madrid vote count is key to understanding the future governability of Spain. And it is that with only very few supports that separated the socialists from the popular ones in the province, from Ferraz all legal resources were exhausted to recover the seat of Carlos García Adanero.

An armchair whose history began on Friday, July 28, when the foreign vote granted the 137th deputy to the PP. As a result of this increase, the ideological blocks that will take shape on August 17, the date on which the Congress is constituted, remain tied at 171. On the one hand, there is the one made up of PP (137), Vox (33) and UPN (1). In the other converge forces such as PSOE (121), Sumar (31), ERC (7), EH Bildu (6), PNV (5) and BNG (1).

Two formations remain in political limbo: Canary Islands Coalition (1), whose future representative in the Lower House, Cristina Valido, declared last Monday on Cadena Ser that they are willing to maintain a “bilateral negotiation” with either of the two formations majority as long as “Canaries and their problems” are on the table. Although with two red lines: “the extreme right and the extreme left”, which eradicates Vox and Sumar from the equation.

The other group is Junts. Carles Puigdemont's party, which has 7 deputies and will foreseeably have the key to decide whether to make Sánchez president. A key, unless the Canary Coalition votes in favor of the socialist leader, which only fits yes. This would mean, as the parliamentary spokesperson for the independence party, Miriam Nogueras, already said, that Pedro Sánchez will not get that support “in exchange for nothing.”

Podemos has announced to its workers the opening of an Employment Regulation File (ERE) which provides for the closure of nine of its territorial delegations and the dismissal of at least half of its workforce, as a result of the loss of institutional representation in the regional elections on May 28 and in the general elections on July 23.

This was announced by the party in a letter dated July 24 (the day after the general elections) sent to its employees, according to El Periódico de España and to which Europa Press has had access.

In it, Podemos assumes that it is facing “a new scenario” after the two electoral appointments that, in addition to the loss of political weight, supposes a significant reduction in income. Specifically, it reveals that an “initial assessment” of the situation places losses at 70% at the state level and approximately 90% in the territories.

This leads the party to announce the termination of contracts and the closure of work centers in nine autonomies -Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Castilla-La Mancha, Cantabria, Galicia, Madrid and the Valencian Community-, in addition to a staff reduction at its headquarters.

Podemos underlines the reduction of seats in the autonomous parliaments and in the Cortes Generales as justification for a “profound reorganization of the party in all areas” to adapt “to the decrease in resources that this implies.”

“This reduction in income entails the unavoidable need to adapt expenses of all kinds to them, including labor, which in the case of the affected territories will imply the termination of contracts and the closure of work centers and, in state, a reduction in the workforce,” he announces.

With this, the party announces the opening of the ERE “for economic, technical and organizational reasons”. “This reorganization is faced with the firm objective of ensuring the political action of Podemos and guaranteeing the continuity of the progress of transformative policies,” he says.

As detailed in the letter, the ERE will affect a total of 45 dependent workers from the nine territorial centers that will be closed (five in Aragon, seven in Asturias, eight in the Balearic Islands, six in the Canary Islands, four in Castilla-La Mancha, one in Cantabria, three in Galicia, four in Madrid and seven in the Valencian Community). Podemos also has 61 employees at the state level, 57.55% of its total workforce, who will also suffer a significant reduction.

The party is now opening a negotiation process that will be led by the Organization Secretariat headed by the elected deputy Lilith Vestrynge. “The Organization remains at the disposal of the compañeras and compañeros with the conviction that among all of us we will be able to find the best solutions to promote our organization again, at the regional and state level, with the certainty that continuing to conquer rights is possible. “, claims the purple formation.

Five deputies in Congress

On 23-J, Podemos stood for the elections under the umbrella of Sumar led by Yolanda Díaz, who won a total of 31 seats with 12.31% of the votes. Of them, only five belong to Podemos.

Two months earlier, the party had already lost considerable territorial weight in the elections on May 28, remaining without representation in two important places, the Community of Madrid and the Valencian Community, and without reaching its goal of entering the regional parliaments of Castilla-Valencia either. La Mancha and Cantabria. In addition, their intention to join the PSOE in numerous territories was frustrated and they even lost regional executives that they already had, as is the case of the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands or Aragon.