Spain’s caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Thursday that next week, work to form a “stable government for the next four years” will begin with meetings with heads of rival parties.
Sánchez’s Socialist party won the most votes on April 28 national elections lacked significant numbers and will need support to remain in charge.
Sánchez also spoke after Meritxell Batet, the Spanish Parliament’s speaker, announced that Spanish King Felipe VI had announced Sánchez as the candidate to form a government.
And in Spain’s Constitution, the steps to form a government starts with the monarch holding a round of talks with the leaders of political parties in the parliament before proposing a candidate.
The far-left ‘We Can’ party is aiming to enter into alignment, but the Socialists have said they would prefer to govern as a minority.
However, the conservative Popular Party, the centre-right Citizens, and the far-right Vox parties have all said they will vote against Sánchez.
Sánchez said that the four pillars of his government’s agenda will be aiming to affect climate change, advancing the country’s digital change, drastically bringing down inequality and working for a stronger Europe.