More than three weeks after the early legislative elections of July 23, which did not give a clear winner, the new Spanish Parliament must be constituted on Thursday August 17. But the suspense remains over who will be able to obtain a majority to form a government and for the nomination as Prime Minister: governability in Spain remains a headache and the voters display their weariness.
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With our correspondent in Madrid, Francois Musseau
Who will govern Spain for the next four years? Nobody knows, and above all, there is a high probability that the country will need to return to the polls if the blockage persistsand if neither the socialist Pedro Sanchez nor the curator Alberto Feijoo do not have the ability to form a majority.
There is a certain fatigue among the electorate, which demands that the political class come to an agreement, and establish the alliances necessary to achieve this. Juan Manuel, teacher, expresses this fed up: “ The citizens voted, the people voted, and now governability is in the hands of politicians. It is up to them to agree, hoping that we will end the domination of the two major parties. »
For politicians to agree, it will not be easy. On the one hand, no minority party wants to form an alliance with the right and the extreme right. On the other hand, the separatists Catalan radicals from Junts are intransigent to renew the mandate of socialist Pedro Sanchez.
Analyst Ana Maria Girauta says that Spanish diversity must be taken into account: One of the lessons that we all receive is that of living together, with minorities, integrating them and ensuring that they are part of the political game. »
Once the new Parliament is constituted on Thursday, King Philip VI will have the heavy burden of calling in political leaders with the aim of forming an executive. If he does not succeed, the Spaniards will have to go back to the polls in December.