Feijóo brings together the PP deputies and senators this Wednesday before the first session of the Cortes

MADRID, 15 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has summoned the deputies and senators of his party to a meeting this Wednesday afternoon in Congress, one day before the constitutive sessions of Congress and the Senate scheduled for Thursday morning .

This will be the first meeting of the PP leader with all his parliamentarians after the general elections on July 23 and while the negotiations for the election of the Congress Bureau and the Presidency of the Lower House are taking place.

The question of who will preside over the Congress can remain until the last moment because Junts has convened a telematic executive commission to decide the position of the party in the vote of the Table of the Congress of Deputies this very Thursday first thing in the morning. The meeting will be at eight, shortly before the start of the constitutive session of the Cortes, scheduled for 10 am.

The general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, referred this Monday to the proposal of the Canary Islands Coalition for the PNV to chair the Congress.

"I understand that in these current times, where there are many pools to establish the Chambers, everyone is free to propose what they want and we are absolutely respectful, but, obviously, the Popular Party has its plans," he said.

"I hope that in the next few hours, in the next few days, President Feijóo will make public his candidate to preside over the Senate", where the PP has an absolute majority.

For her part, the acting Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, declined on Monday to give details about the negotiations for the formation of the Congress Table, limiting herself to pointing out that the talks must take place in a climate of "prudence" and "discretion". ", although he expressed his confidence that the body is "progressive".

The first vice president and acting Minister of Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño, opted this Monday for the Presidency of Congress to go to the PSOE, rejecting the proposal of the Canary Islands Coalition that the position go to the PNV.

For her part, Sumar's spokesperson in Congress, Marta Lois, confirmed on Monday that there are contacts with the Junts pro-independence supporters to get a Congressional Table set up with a progressive majority that, in her opinion, should be chaired by the PSOE.