2023-11-07 02:23:30
“Feijóo is wasting Spain’s precious time with his fake investiture,” was one of the phrases most repeated by the PSOE while the popular candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, was preparing to try to secure the necessary support in September to overcome a investment. A phrase that, now, despite the imminence of the agreement with Junts, turns against the PSOE by taking the same time to collect the necessary votes and even exceeding the time, since the socialist leader will appear before Congress later than Feijóo did.
The president of the PP was designated as a candidate by the King to try to form a government on August 22 after the first round of consultations. From then on, until he appeared before the Congress of Deputies to try to reach La Moncloa, 35 days passed. A time that the acting President of the Government consumes just this Tuesday. At the moment, although Pedro Sánchez is about to sign his investiture agreement with Junts, he has not yet managed to secure the 178 supports he needs to be invested in the first vote or the more “yeses” than “noes” in a second round . Pedro Sánchez was designated as a candidate by the King on October 3, after the second round of consultations held since the July 23 elections. At the moment, the president of the Congress of Deputies, Francina Armengol, has not set the investiture date, although if the agreement with Junts is closed, the date on which the socialist candidate would present himself for the investiture could be announced today, this same week, at the end, or next week.
There is, however, no specific deadline established that forces the presidency of Congress to set a specific date. The Constitution only sets the deadline of two months in which an investiture must be attempted before the Cortes Generales are automatically convened and new general elections are called. The Congress Regulations only dictate that Francina Armengol must be the one who sets the date, according to article 170.
If there is a difference in performance between the popular candidate and the socialist. It only took Armengol one day to announce the date of Feijóo’s investiture – subject to prior agreement with the popular leader. However, the president of Congress already made it clear after announcing that the King had entrusted Sánchez to form a government that, in this case, the investiture days would be set “at the time when the situation is sufficiently mature.” In fact, presidential sources explain that the president’s objective is to work so that the investitures “are successful” and that is why a date has not been officially set beforehand. In Congress they reject criticism in this regard, such as those led by the PP for the delay in setting the date and assure that the situation is different, because in the case of Feijóo a date had to be set earlier to start the electoral clock, the more The longer this decision was delayed, the longer the country would be in office. The difference, they say, is that now there is a deadline, November 27.
Sánchez is thus approaching his own record in terms of the time he takes to appear for an investiture. In 2019, after the general elections in April, the socialist leader took 46 days to appear for the investiture. However, the president of Congress at that time, Meritxell Batet, had announced the call for the investiture session much earlier, 26 days after the King had proposed him as a candidate. Until that moment, it had been Mariano Rajoy who had spent the most time formalizing his investiture. In 2016, the then president of Congress, Ana Pastor, announced the investiture date 21 days after the King proposed Rajoy. Finally, the investiture took place 32 days after he was commissioned to form a government. In 2016, Sánchez would also spend 28 days trying to be inaugurated, which would be his first failed investiture. In 2019, after the November electoral repetition, he would achieve a quick agreement with Podemos, Batet would announce the date of Sánchez’s investiture just 20 days after the King appointed the socialist leader to trust him.
Sánchez and Feijóo are thus the candidates who have taken the longest to present themselves for an investiture as opposed to express processes. In 2004, only eight days passed from the time the King proposed José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero as a candidate until he was sworn in as President of the Government. The then president Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo took the same amount of time in 1981, followed by former presidents Felipe González and José María Aznar in 1989 and 2000, respectively.
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