The 350 deputies elected at the end of July in the Spanish legislative elections will meet on Thursday July 17 to begin the new parliamentary session. And it is an absentee, the Catalan Carles Puigdemont, who monopolizes all the attention since the Socialists absolutely need the support of Junts, Puigdemont’s party, to stay in power.
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From our correspondent in Madrid, Elise Gazengel
He fled Spain six years ago now, but on Thursday August 17 in Madrid, Carles Puigdemont, the former president of the Catalan Generalitat, will be on everyone’s mind. During the constitution of the Parliament, the 350 new deputies elected at the end of July will have to vote the presidency of the Assembly and the eight members of its office.
The Socialists and their allies will absolutely need the support of the seven deputies of the Catalan independence party Junts, as for the investiture of the next president of the government. Puigdemont, “kingmaker”, will meet virtually with his troops at the last moment Thursday at 8 a.m., just two hours before the start of the plenary session, to decide on their position.
The Socialists are trying for their part to seduce the Nationalists by proposing Francina Armengol, ex-president of the Balearic Islands, fervent defender of the Catalan, to chair the chamber. But Puigdemont is waiting. ” Bids go up “, he warned on the social network X, before claiming” patience ” And ” perseverance “.
Els punts cardinals de la nostra posició no han varia, per mes pressures i corredisses de darrera hora que hi hagi, i algun insult que se’ls descontrola. És a dir: no tenim cap confiança en els partits polítics espanyols, tota precaució és poca i les promeses no ens escalfen ni…
— krls.eth / Carles Puigdemont (@KRLS) August 16, 2023
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