Patxi López in Congress and Eva Granados in the Senate

2023-08-16 08:21:21

The PSOE will propose the former president of Extremadura Guillermo Fernández Vara as a candidate for vice president of the Senate, a chamber in which the PP holds an absolute majority. The spokesperson for the socialist parliamentary group in Congress will continue to be Patxi López, while in the Senate that position will go to Eva Granados, as it was in the last legislature.

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The acting president of the Government and general secretary of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, will meet this Wednesday with the leadership of the party, the Federal Executive, and will later hold a meeting with the socialist deputies and senators in Congress. The meeting of the PSOE Federal Executive will take place at the party headquarters on Calle Ferraz in Madrid at 9:30 am and the meeting with the parliamentarians will be at 12:30 pm.

These meetings take place just one day before the full constitution of Congress and the Senate is held on August 17. In addition, they occur after the PSOE announced yesterday that it will propose the previous president of the Balearic Islands, Francina Armengol, for the Presidency of the Congress of Deputies.

Also this Wednesday, but in the afternoon, the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has summoned his deputies and senators. The popular have not yet announced a candidate to preside over Congress, in which they will be represented with 137 seats after the 23J elections.

The week is marked by the negotiations for the election of the Congress Table and the Presidency of the Lower House. The question of who will preside over the Congress can remain until the last moment because Junts has convened a telematic executive commission to decide the position of the party in the vote of the Table of the Congress of Deputies this very Thursday first thing in the morning. The meeting will be at eight, shortly before the start of the constitutive session of the Cortes, scheduled for 10 am.

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