Madrid (EFE).- The deputy general secretary of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, said this Tuesday that her party will negotiate with “discretion” an investiture of Pedro Sánchez as president after 23J with those formations in favor of the “social majority” of Spain, and has rejected the referendum for Catalonia and the amnesty that Junts is asking for.
“The PSOE has always been very clear on this issue. We are a constitutionalist party, any issue that we address has to be within that constitutional framework”, he commented in an interview in La Ser when asked about the referendum and amnesty, which are two demands that Junts has raised to support a hypothetical investiture of Sánchez as Prime Minister.
The PSOE came in second place in the general elections last Sunday, after the PP, but it has the option of continuing to govern with the support of Sumar, ERC, EH Bildu, BNG, PNV and the yes or abstention of Junts.
Montero has said that now the priority is the constitution of the Cortes on August 17, and has confirmed that the Socialists will aspire to preside over the Table of the Congress of Deputies, but has also ratified the will of the PSOE to negotiate an investiture for Sánchez, for which he has requested “discretion”.
“To bring a negotiation to a successful conclusion we need to have discretion. We will continue talking as always with all those who want to continue developing a project for a country where the social majority, the general interest, prevail ”, he declared.
Asked directly if Junts is part of the “progressive framework” that could support an investiture by Sánchez, the also acting Minister of Finance has said that the one who has to respond to this is this formation, which she has not wanted to qualify, and has denied that there could be a “balkanization”, as the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has predicted.
“Not at all, there would be an articulation of what the people have wanted, of what the people have voted for. He has overwhelmingly voted for progress ”, she has assured.
Montero has stressed the need to articulate “an agreement and consensus” so that there continues to be a “progressive” government in Spain, “despite the discrepancy that may exist a priori between the ideological meanings of each party”, and has been convinced that it will be achieved.
And on whether there is room to negotiate measures for Catalonia after the pardons for leaders of the procés and the reform of the crimes of sedition and embezzlement, he commented that “there is room to continue developing a Spain of progress” which, in his opinion, “is the only reading of these elections”, having won in his opinion “a majority of progress”.