The vote will follow a parliamentary debate scheduled to start at noon local time on Wednesday, she told reporters. Sanchez looks assured of winning a new term with an absolute majority of the 350-member assembly. He won the support of several regional parties - including the pro-Catalan independence party Junts and ERC - in exchange for a contentious law granting amnesty to those prosecuted over Catalonia's attempt to secede from Spain in 2017.
The prospect of the amnesty has brought thousands of opponents to the streets over the past week.
After an inconclusive election on July 23, Sanchez's Socialist Party spent weeks negotiating with smaller parties, most of which had supported him in 2020 for his previous term.
Sanchez has also secured the backing of lawmakers from hard-left Sumar, which is set to become the junior partner in the coalition government, Basque parties PNV and EH Bildu, left-wing Galician party BNG and the regionalist Canary Coalition.
With that alignment, his premiership bid is expected to garner 179 votes in favour and 171 against, with opposition from the conservative People's Party's 137 deputies, far-right Vox's 33 legislators and the tiny Navarre outfit UPN's one lawmaker.
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It's ok for now that the people who agree with this undemocratic situation seem to accept it, as they are on the side of the crocodile but in the end the crocodile will eat them too when he runs out of food. Socialism/ fascism is a cult like disease prepared to do anything in its power to stay in control. Sad times. America is the same and has turned into a banana republic trying to in prison the other side. Democracy is dead. It's time to oust these dead beat politicians.
“Very likely”. In other words, you don’t believe in Democracy and are afraid of losing again, as as you will know, or should do, the PP party got the most MP’s after the last election. It’s only the sum of a load of basically small unimportant parties and unconstitutional laws, that have given Sanchez the chance of sneaking in through the back door. The amnesties you are talking about were agreed by ALL political parties, and is well known, in Spain and abroad, as La Transición Española. Look it up. Yes, F was a terrible person, murdering hundreds of thousands. But he was an amateur compared to another leader named S, who dispatched millions, not only in his own country but quite a few in Spain as well. But he was a socialist so that’s OK, isn’t it ?.
And what was the alternative? Another election which very likely would have just had the same outcome and we'd be where we are now. Notice how the right wing didn't have problems with amnesties when it was their Francoist heroes (who murdered hundreds of thousands) getting them!
The day democracy died in Europe.
Adam OstenfeldI agree, and one wonders how long his government will last before falling apart. Having said that, I am not convinced that all the PSOE mp’s will vote affirmatively for his re-election, and the same could be said for some of the ones from the smaller coalition parties as well. What I do find absolutely incredible is the fact that a right wing politician has very recently been shot, obviously with the intention of killing him, and the Spanish press has virtually ignored it as if it were a regular and normal occurrence in Spanish politics. All I can say is good luck and may God help them.
Well this will definitely split and divide the Spanish people and will disrupt and create difficulties to move forward in any sense he will be very weak and will have to bend to many of the smaller members wishes . This will not be good for the country !