Oviedo (EFE).- The talks between the PSOE and IU to form a possible coalition government in Asturias will continue, although for the moment “there have been no concrete advances”, as acknowledged this Friday by the acting president of the Principality, Adrián Barbón , which has ensured that the socialists do not need to lean towards the center because they have never abandoned and will never abandon centrality.
IU-Call for Asturias is preparing a summary document with its proposals to continue talking about “what will be the framework for coexistence” this legislature, a negotiation of which Barbón is not a part and which has been left in the hands of the socialist spokesperson, Dolores Carcedo, and the Organization Secretary of the Asturian Socialist Federation, Gimena Llamedo.
“Let no one doubt that everything possible will be done to achieve the greatest political stability,” Barbón stressed two hours after the PP parliamentary spokesman, Diego Canga, announced his resignation from appearing at the investiture session of the President of the Principality for “responsibility” and favor the formation of a government of which the IU is not a part.
Although negative, a lone PSOE government will be better than a coalition government in which Barbón is “tied to the demands of the United Left”, according to the popular leader, who hopes that with his resignation the president “could lean towards the center ”.
After recalling that Canga assured three times that he was going to choose the investiture, Barbón has said that he respects his decision and that he is welcome if it means a rectification and that the PP is going to abandon the “strategy of no for no to everything”.
The PSOE occupies “the centrality, not the center”
Faced with the location of the popular leader to a government leaning towards the center, the acting president has stressed that the PSOE “occupies the political centrality, not the center”, because it is the party with which the people identify the most and that Neither before nor now is he going to abandon that position.
Barbón has also announced that he is not going to settle for being re-elected with the minimum number of votes and that he is going to try to get the greatest possible support from the Chamber and achieve the greatest possible stability for the entire legislature, preferably with the support of IU- Call for Asturias but, has qualified, without closing to others.
In any case, the general secretary of the FSA-PSOE has denied that there is a tilt to the left, although he believes that there could be a change in strategy among the popular with his proposal to seek understanding on issues such as unemployment or the demographic challenge. .
Barbón, who is considering that the new government could be constituted by the end of July or beginning of August, has ruled out that he will make the leap into national politics by ensuring that his commitment for the next four years is in Asturias, whoever wins the elections July 23 elections
guaranteed investiture
In a Chamber made up of 45 deputies, 19 of whom are from the PSOE, 17 from the PP, 4 from Vox, 3 from IU and two from the Mixed Group (Podemos and Foro), Barbón has guaranteed his re-election as head of the regional Executive with the sole support of the socialist group since the Asturian Chamber regulations only allow voting in favor of the candidate or abstaining.
Had the PP presented a candidate and obtained the support of the four Vox deputies, Canga would have gotten 21 votes and Barbón would necessarily have had to count on the three IU deputies to be able to win, since the Foro deputy, Adrián Pumares, He has announced that he will abstain from voting and it is not contemplated that Podemos, Covadonga Tomé, can support the right.
Confronted with the leadership of his party, Tomé continues to ask to join the “discreet” talks open between the PSOE and IU for the formation of the future government, although the coalition has guaranteed the support of its three parliamentarians for the investiture of Barbón without compensation for stop a possible right-wing executive.
The investiture plenary session will begin on July 18 with the intervention of Barbón and will continue the following day with the intervention of the five groups that make up the autonomous Chamber before a vote in which the candidate requires an absolute majority (a minimum of 23 votes) in order to be elected.
If that number is not reached, the plenary session will resume 48 hours later, on July 21, to repeat the vote in which Barbón has his investiture guaranteed by a simple majority. EFE