Oviedo (EFE).- The IU-Asturias Collegiate Commission has agreed to guarantee the investiture of the socialist Adrián Barbón as president of the Principality for a second term, regardless of whether future negotiations between the two parties on the coalition’s demand for to join the future Government, sources of that formation have pointed out to EFE.
This decision, adopted last night, will now be addressed by the IU with Más País and Izquierda Asturiana, the two formations with which it ran in coalition as the Call for Asturias in the May 28 elections.
With 19 deputies out of 45 and an investiture system that only allows support or abstention from voting for the candidates and that makes it possible to obtain the presidency in a second round without an absolute majority, the socialist Adrián Barbón would only need the 3 votes of IU and that of We can to be elected if the PP presents a candidacy and adds to its 17 seats the four of Vox and the one of Forum.
The decision adopted by the IU leadership, together with the position also announced yesterday by Podemos in the same sense, clears up the possibility that a hypothetical abstention of both in the investiture session would open the door for the PP candidate, Diego Canga , was elected president with the 22 votes that the seats of these three formations could add up.
Barbón, who has expedited the legal deadline for the constitutive plenary session of the General Meeting to be held as a result of the regional elections to be held on June 26, reiterated yesterday that the talks to close possible agreements with other political forces must start at the local level with a view to the constitution of the town halls on June 17.
“If both parties have a clear position on governance, I hope that we all comply with it; We will see what happens ”, he pointed out after both formations have shown their willingness to favor left-wing governments in the councils where they have a majority.
However, this possible agreement is in danger in municipalities such as San Martín del Rey Aurelio, a traditional stronghold of the PSOE where the Socialists have once again been the force with the most votes, but the local IU organization has shown up to now more prone to a possible alliance with two independent candidacies to win the mayoralty.
Entry into government in areas of decision
“We must remember that the PSOE has fewer seats than the entire right combined, therefore IU cannot generate instability, it has to join and transfer to the right that is not going to govern”, its secretary for Strategy and Alliance Policy assured today. , Alexander Suarez.
At the regional level, for which Barbón asked that it be “discreet” and “without public shows” to guarantee a “strong” government, Suárez has shown his bewilderment at this message since “that is guaranteed”, but has warned that They will transfer to society their claim to enter a government to transform “and for that it is necessary to enter decision-making areas that are opaque today.”
The objective of the coalition, Suárez stressed, is to enter the Government to direct “economic and industrial aspects of importance”, but not to enter the Executive “as a listener” and added that the report approved unanimously within the Collegiate stresses that discretion “cannot be confused with silence.”
“We don’t want people not to know why if a negotiation is frustrated and if a possible leftist government is frustrated. I don’t know if the President of the Government is paying attention to Benedict XVI when he asked for silence in the conclave in which he was elected, but this is not the Catholic Church, it is a democratic society and we will naturally transfer our claims”, he has added. EFE
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