On November 10, Spanish voters went to the polls for the fourth time in the last four years and, as happened in the elections in December 2015, June 2016 and last April, no party or, for that matter, likely coalition of parties, won a majority of the 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies. New Spanish government Spanish investiture nerves: PSOE tells delegates to spend Monday night in Madrid El Nacional Photo: EFE Barcelona. The session to attempt to form a Spanish coalition government will thus begin on the first Saturday of the year, probably at 12 noon, with Pedro Sánchez, as the candidate, speaking first. After this failure, a two-month clock starts running â if in this time Spanish MPs do not succeed in naming a prime minister, a snap election will be automatically called for 10 November. After Pedro Sánchez's speech yesterday, the result was to be expected: the candidate for Spanish prime minister has lost the first round investiture vote. Upon a vacancy, the Spanish monarch nominates a presidency candidate for a vote of confidence by the Congress of Deputies of Spain, the lower house of the Cortes Generales (parliament). Cué / B. Cia / R. Rincón | Madrid | 24-12-2019 - 10:12 UTC As the Socialist Party and Catalan Republican Left get closer to a deal to get Pedro Sánchez sworn back into office, lawmakers are asked to stay near Madrid in case they need to rush back from holidays Spanish Congress prepares for possible end-of-year investiture vote As the Socialist Party and Catalan Republican Left get closer to a deal to ⦠La nostra independència també depèn de tu. The Socialists ( PSOE ) won only 124 votes, with 155 against and 67 abstentions. No party had secured a majority in the 2015 election, resulting in the most fragmented parliament since 1977. In total, Sánchez hopes to receive the support of 169 deputies, and with the expected abstention of the 13 members from the Catalan party ERC (plus 5 from the Basque party Bildu), this will be sufficient to allow him to form a government, 255 days after Spain went to the polls in the first of its two 2019 elections, on April 28th. SPANISH POLITICS Pedro Sánchez voted back in as Spanish prime minister by Congress The Socialist Party leader won a second investiture vote by a simple majority of just two votes ⦠The process is a parliamentarian investiture by which the head of government is indirectly elected by the elected Congress of Deputies. Barcelona. Spanish Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez on Tuesday secured parliament's backing to form a government and end a lengthy political gridlock. 17:53 The nerves within PSOE ahead of the 7th January investiture vote are clear. MADRID (Reuters) - Spainâs new parliament will likely vote at the beginning of July on who will become prime minister, acting government spokeswoman Isabel Celaa said on Friday. The investiture vote on Tuesday, which Sánchez won by 167 votes to 165, with 18 abstentions, ends the nine months of political deadlock resulting ⦠But the more challenging issue was how to persuade the ERC to abstain rather than vote against a PSOE-Podemos government in a second investiture vote. Sanchez, who leads an alliance with left-wing Unidas Podemos party, was supported by 167 of the 350 lower house legislators, while 165 voted against. T'ha fet servei aquest article? REUTERS/Stringer REUTERS/Stringer The speaker of the Spanish parliament's lower house, Meritxell Batet , informed the parliamentary groups of ⦠After Pedro Sánchez's speech yesterday, the result was to be expected: the candidate for Spanish prime minister has lost the first round investiture vote, falling far short of the absolute majority necessary. Nonetheless, the Senate possesses a few exclusive, yet limited in number functionsâsuch as its role in constitutional amendmentâwhich are not subject to the Congress' override. See here for a complete list of exchanges and delays. Sánchez wins investiture vote, becomes Spanish PM By EUobserver 7. Many translated example sentences containing "investiture vote" â German-English dictionary and search engine for German translations. Then, Congress will break for the Dia de Reis holiday on the 6th, day of gift-giving, and resume on Tuesday, January 7th, to see if it can give the Socialist leader the present he really wants. The remaining 18 abstained. In last Novemberâs Spanish election, the center-left Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) headed by Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez won 28 percent of the vote and 120 of the 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies and the left-of-PSOE Unidas Podemos led by Pablo Iglesias won 12.8 percent of the vote and 35 seats. Spain's Sanchez wins investiture vote, ⦠MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez on Tuesday secured parliamentâs backing to form a government and end a lengthy political gridlock. A new debate will begin, probably in a reduced format, culminating in a second ballot. On Sunday, acting Socialist Party (PSOE) Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez failed in a first vote to obtain the required majority to establish a government ⦠Spanish Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez on Tuesday secured parliament's backing to form a government and end a lengthy political gridlock. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. The election was held as provided under article 99.5 of the Spanish Constitution, as a result of the failure in government formation negotiations after Pedro Sánchez's failed investiture voting on 23â25 July 2019. The 2016 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 26 June 2016, to elect the 12th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. The Spanish Congress is to vote on PSOE leader Pedro Sánchez's investiture as new prime minister in sessions on January 4th, 5th, and almost certainly, the 7th. Spanish Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero won an investiture vote in parliament Friday to formally begin a second term in office, two days after losing his investiture ⦠The Spanish Cortes Generales are envisaged as an imperfect bicameral system. Pedro Sánchez has failed again in the second round of votes to be named prime minister in the Spanish Congress. The formal convocation of the investiture debate, however, will not be until January 2nd, according to Congress sources. Spanish Congress prepares for possible end-of-year investiture vote A. Díez / J. Casqueiro / C.E. New Spanish government Puigdemont's warning for Sánchez and ERC ahead of the investiture vote Núria Casas Photo: Antena 3 Barcelona. Sanchez, who ⦠Each parliamentary party will then have an opportunity to state its own position, and after each one, Sánchez will be entitled to respond. The speaker of the Spanish parliament's lower house, Meritxell Batet, informed the parliamentary groups of these dates on Tuesday morning. PSOE crisis leading to Sánchez's ouster and the party voting to allow a PP minority government. A Spanish congress debate will be held on Monday 22 July, and the first vote on the investiture will take place the following day that will either confirm or reject the PSOE socialist as the head of the Spanish government. SPAINâS acting prime minister has lost a vote in the Congress of Deputies to officially take office after failing to secure the backing of the leftist Podemos. Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks during the investiture debate at Parliament in Madrid, Spain, January 7, 2020. Reporting by Inti Landauro, Belen Carreno, Emma Pinedo and Jose Elias Rodriguez; Editing by Ingrid Melander. Soon after the election, the ERC conducted a survey of its members in which they were asked whether they agreed to âreject Pedro Sánchezâs investiture unless there is previously an agreement to tackle the political conflict with the ⦠are clear. Acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez failed to earn the trust of parliament on Thursday at a second investiture vote, meaning that he will not, for now, be able to form a new government. Rajoy's successful investiture on 29 October. Voting for the Cortes Generales is on the basis of uni⦠Tuesday, 31 December 2019. Monday, 6 January 2020. Acting Spanish prime minister to face investiture vote on July 22 Pedro Sánchez of the Socialist Party hopes to be voted back into office, despite ⦠MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez on Tuesday secured parliamentâs backing to form a government and end a lengthy political gridlock. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate. Bevat resultaten die beschikbaar zijn met het geselecteerde pakket: Bevat resultaten die beschikbaar zijn met de geselecteerde pakketten: Bevat resultaten die niet beschikbaar zijn met uw pakket.Blader door de 500 spanish parliament votes during the investiture debate beschikbare stockfotoâs en beelden, of begin een nieuwe zoekopdracht om meer stockfotoâs en beelden te vinden. The Spanish Congress is to vote on PSOE leader Pedro Sánchez's investiture as new prime minister in sessions on January 4th, 5th, and almost certainly, the 7th. Acting Spanish PM may head to investiture vote without support of Unidas Podemos. To be named prime minister during the investiture vote on July 22 and 23, Pedro Sanchez must win at least 176 votes - an absolute majority - in the 350-seat Spanish lower house of parliament. The Congress of Deputies has greater legislative power than the Senate, having the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a prime minister and to override Senate vetoes by an absolute majority of votes. Spain's Sanchez wins investiture vote⦠This time, the candidate will only need a simple majority to become elected as new prime minister. 19:45, expected abstention of the 13 members from the Catalan party ERC, ERC-PSOE pact proposes that Catalans vote on result of Spain-Catalonia dialogue, Spain’s state machinery complicates a PSOE-ERC understanding, Sánchez and Iglesias seal their Spanish coalition deal and await kingmaker ERC. The investiture of the acting Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, will take place on July 22 and 23, when he will need to have the backing of a majority of MPs in order to officially reclaim the post. Prior to the voting, the Spanish Socialists and UP presented their joint governing deal, outlining the policies that they want to implement from their planned coalition government. MADRID (Reuters) - Spainâs new parliament will likely vote by mid-July on who will become prime minister and expects talks between party leaders and the Spanish king to ⦠Per seguir garantint una informació compromesa, valenta i rigorosa, necessitem el teu suport. The leader of the anti-austerity party, Pablo Iglesias, warned that Pedro Sánchez will not have enough votes to ⦠All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. The governing plan includes tax rises for higher earners and large firms, an increase in the minimum wage and a partial overturn of regressive aspects of the conservative Popular Partyâs labor reforms. Attempts to form a government in Spain followed the inconclusive Spanish general election of 20 December 2015, which failed ⦠Sunday, 5 January 2020. This process will continue on Sunday 5th, until reaching a first ballot, in which Sánchez will be required to get an absolute majority (176) of the 350-seat house to become new prime minister - and, given the known arithmetic, he will fail. Spanish investiture goes down to wire Socialist Sánchez seeks Podemos backing ahead of crunch votes Pedro Sanchez, of the left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE), got the backing of 124 Congress deputies in the investiture vote â¦