Feijóo offers Junts and PNV a snap no-confidence motion: 184 MPs to force elections
Feijóo asks Junts and PNV to back a no-confidence motion to trigger elections, but the catch is he wants a government without Vox. Will the nationalists accept?
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Feijóo offers Junts and PNV a snap motion to force elections
The leader of Spain's conservative PP proposes a caretaker government whose only purpose would be to call elections. The offer excludes Vox and seeks the nationalists' support, but neither Junts nor PNV seems willing to take the leap.
184 MPs who don't add up
Feijóo claims 184 MPs are calling for elections, but to table a no-confidence motion he would need an absolute majority: 176 seats. He is missing Junts' seven or PNV's five. The math doesn't work without them. And the message contains a contradiction: he calls for a motion to trigger elections, but the law requires proposing a candidate and a governing programme, not just calling elections. "That is not a no-confidence motion," point out critical voices within the debate itself.
The price of leaving Vox out
The PP leader has been clear: his government would govern alone, without Vox. But to win over Junts and PNV he would have to offer concessions likely involving territorial concessions or constitutional reforms. "I very much doubt PNV or Junts would be interested in ousting Sánchez only to endure four or eight years of a right-wing coalition," sums up one analyst. The experience of the two no-confidence motions pushed by Vox, which Sánchez survived with the support of the very same parties, does not invite optimism.
A call without conviction
Feijóo insists: "I will not do anything that benefits the Socialist Party." But the argument backfires: if he truly believed in the motion, he would table it without guarantees, in order to expose those who abstain or vote against it. "No-confidence motions are not speculated about, they are tabled," he is reminded. The move smells more like a political gamble than a real strategy. Meanwhile, Sánchez's investiture bloc holds, and the parliamentary term continues.
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The leader of Spain's conservative PP proposes a caretaker government whose only purpose would be to call elections. The offer excludes Vox and seeks the nationalists' support, but neither Junts nor PNV seems willing to take the leap.
184 MPs who don't add up
Feijóo claims 184 MPs are calling for elections, but to table a no-confidence motion he would need an absolute majority: 176 seats. He is missing Junts' seven or PNV's five. The math doesn't work without them. And the message contains a contradiction: he calls for a motion to trigger elections, but the law requires proposing a candidate and a governing programme, not just calling elections. "That is not a no-confidence motion," point out critical voices within the debate itself.
The price of leaving Vox out
The PP leader has been clear: his government would govern alone, without Vox. But to win over Junts and PNV he would have to offer concessions likely involving territorial concessions or constitutional reforms. "I very much doubt PNV or Junts would be interested in ousting Sánchez only to endure four or eight years of a right-wing coalition," sums up one analyst. The experience of the two no-confidence motions pushed by Vox, which Sánchez survived with the support of the very same parties, does not invite optimism.
A call without conviction
Feijóo insists: "I will not do anything that benefits the Socialist Party." But the argument backfires: if he truly believed in the motion, he would table it without guarantees, in order to expose those who abstain or vote against it. "No-confidence motions are not speculated about, they are tabled," he is reminded. The move smells more like a political gamble than a real strategy. Meanwhile, Sánchez's investiture bloc holds, and the parliamentary term continues.
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