Candidacy Calvino | The PP criticizes Sánchez for not informing Feijóo of Calviño’s candidacy for the EIB

2023-08-12 14:09:31

The candidacy of the acting first vice president, Nadia Calviño, to preside over the European Investment Bank (EIB) has not sat well with the PP. The general coordinator of the conservatives, Elias Bendodohas branded as a “democratic anomaly” that the Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchezwill not previously inform Alberto Núñez Feijóo. In addition, he has tried to cast doubt on whether the leader of the Socialists is trying to reposition his ministers given his impossibility of being sworn in as president again.

“Es a democratic anomaly More than Sánchez, before the candidacy for such an important body, does not call the opposition leader to talk about this, which shows his arrogance and arrogance in all his decisions”, Bendodo has sentenced at a press conference held in Ceuta He has also been accused of “to lie“, alleging that Sánchez pointed to Calviño as his “economic voice” in the campaign for the general elections and that now it is his “interim economic voice“.

It has been at this point that Bendodo has speculated that Sánchez has made this decision to find a way out for Calviño. “Seeing as he’s not going to have enough support for the inauguration, he’s starting to think about relocate their ministers“, he said. However, the also Minister of Economy has assured that he will continue to lead his duties, both now and if Sánchez manages to form a new Government, until at the end of the year he had to take over the presidency of the European Bank of Investments if elected.

Insist without the supports

Bendodo has also taken the opportunity to insist that it is Feijóo who should be the next president of Spain. Maintaining the strategy that they put in as soon as the polls closed to claim that as winners of the elections they are the ones who have to govern, despite not having the necessary support, the general coordinator of the PP has stressed that they have 50 more deputies than Sánchez for the investiture, what brings the PP closer “to the green traffic light“. Conservatives have the backing of Vox and of UPN, but these supports do not reach the required majority of 176 ‘yes’.

In addition, he has insisted that Sánchez does not even have guaranteed support from Sumar, despite the fact that Yolanda Díaz has not stopped insisting that there will be a new coalition government. It is true that the socialist leader has a complex negotiation ahead of him to attract his block to ERC, eh Bildu, PNV, BNG and achieve the ‘yes’ of Canarian Coalition and, at least, abstaining from together. This Thursday, the constitution of the Cortes will be a first test of the majorities that each one has.