Sánchez will meet with Feijóo on Monday as part of the round of contacts for the investiture

Feijóo will pass on his negative vote and ask him to order Armengol to set a date for the vote.

MADRID, 6 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The acting president of the Government and PSOE candidate for the investiture, Pedro Sánchez, will meet next Monday with the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, within the round of contacts with the parliamentary groups to achieve his re-election.

Sánchez will receive Feijóo at 5 p.m. in the Congress of Deputies, according to PSOE sources. However, the leader of the PSOE will not ask for the votes of the PP, as he indicated this week after the King designated him as a candidate for the investiture. On his side, Feijóo will transfer his negative vote and ask him to order the president of Congress to set a date for the vote, according to what they indicate from Genoa.

On the contrary, Sánchez will ask Feijóo to agree to renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), whose mandate has expired for nearly five years, as indicated at that time.

The meeting is part of the round of contacts initiated this week by the PSOE with the meeting between Sánchez and the leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, in which both committed to closing a Government agreement this October.

On Monday it will be Feijóo's turn and then the rest of the parliamentary groups will follow, including Bildu and Junts, with whom Sánchez has not met in person so far.

On the other hand, Feijóo will convey to Sánchez his absolute rejection of the country's governability being conditioned to the demands of the independence movement and entailing "the breakdown of equality" between Spaniards, according to PP sources.

Thus they point out that the amnesty for those involved in the process cannot be a "bargaining currency" for Sánchez to remain in La Moncloa. "It is neither constitutional nor ethical to undermine the principle of equality among the citizens of our country, nor is there authorization from the polls to treat anyone in a privileged manner, whether pro-independence politician or not," they point out.

In addition, Feijóo will ask Sánchez what and who is negotiating on the part of the PSOE, once the acting president has admitted that there are conversations underway. "The Spaniards have the right to know all the details," they emphasize from Genoa.

Likewise, Feijóo will advance the negative vote of his party to the investiture and will demand that he mandate the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, to specify the date of the debate. In this sense, they remember that Armengol set the plenary session for Feijóo's investiture the day after the King's appointment, but now four days after Sánchez's appointment there is still no date for the investiture session.

The meeting takes place a little more than a month after the last meeting between the two, which took place on August 30 in the Lower House, in that case in Feijóo's round of contacts for his investiture session in which he failed the majority necessary to be president.