Pedro Sánchez will meet tomorrow with the Federal Executive of the PSOE and later with his deputies and senators in Congress

The acting President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, will meet this Wednesday, August 16, the Federal Executive of the party and will later hold a meeting with the Socialist deputies and senators in the Congress of Deputies.

The meeting of the PSOE Federal Executive will take place at the party headquarters on Calle Ferraz in Madrid at 09:30. Later, at 12:30 p.m., Sánchez will have a meeting with the parliamentarians elected for the XV legislature in the Ernest Lluch room of the Lower House.

These meetings take place just one day before the plenary session of Congress and the Senate will be held on August 17.

That same Wednesday afternoon, the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has also summoned the popular deputies and senators, who on July 23 won 137 seats in the Lower House.

The week is marked by the negotiations for the election of the Congress Table and the Presidency of the Lower House. 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.