MADRID (Reuters) – Pedro Sanchez was inaugurated by Parliament on Thursday for a new mandate as head of the Spanish government after four months of political impasse following the legislative elections on July 23.
The socialist leader, in power since 2018, won as expected 179 votes out of the 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of Cortes, thanks to the support of the Junts per Catalunya and Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC, Republican Left) parties. of Catalonia) in exchange for a proposed amnesty for Catalan separatists.
The amnesty bill should concern hundreds of political leaders and separatist activists involved in the self-determination referendum organized in 2017 and deemed illegal by the Spanish courts.
Pedro Sanchez, who leads the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party), was supported by elected officials from the left alliance Sumar, Junts and the ERC, the Basque parties PNV and EH Bildu, the Galician party BNG and the Canarian Coalition.
The deputies of the Popular Party (PP, conservative), the Vox party (far right) and the only elected official from the Union of the Navarrese People voted against.
(Belén Carreño, Inti Landauro and Emma Pinedo; Kate Entringer and Jean-Stéphane Brosse)
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