Madrid: After winning the general election on Sunday, the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) was prepared today to study the possibility of leading a government with its own forces, although without ruling out other options, Prensa Latina reports.
The PSOE will prioritize the creation of a progressive administration to seek four years of tranquility and strengthen democracy, said Monday the 'number two' of the acting Executive of Pedro Sánchez, Carmen Calvo in statements to Cadena Ser.
According to almost definitive data, the centennial Social Democratic formation was the most voted in the legislative elections yesterday, obtaining 123 of the 350 seats of the Congress of Deputies, but far from the absolute majority, set at 176 seats.
In spite of his unappealable triumph, Sanchez will have to define the strategy to follow for staying in the governmental Palace of the Moncloa, because irremediably it will require the support of other political forces in the strategic Lower House, in charge of investing the future president.
His vice president in functions bowed on Monday for 'respecting the whole world and talking to everyone', as well as 'trying to make the culture of collaboration make its way into Spanish politics'.
Calvo alluded to the end of the alternation in power embodied for several decades between the PSOE and the conservative Popular Party, which began in the elections of 2015, with the irruption of the anti-austerity party Podemos and the Liberal Citizens (Cs).
'We will be a progressive government, we are the left of government, that is why we fight in the bosom of the PSOE, so as not to give that space' to Unidas Podemos (UP).
In the ten months of Sanchez's term, Unidas Podemos contributed a lot to the management of the Social Democrats, he acknowledged.
"They reinforce us as a progressive government and we can continue to advance in that formula we have started”, the vice president responded to a question about an eventual coalition executive with Pablo Iglesias' party.
The president of the PSOE, Cristina Narbona, said today to another radio station that her party does not rule out governing in a minority, although she said that "there is no hurry" when making decisions about possible alternatives.
Spain needs a horizon of stability to tackle the challenges, emphasized Narbona, without giving any clues as to whether Sanchez will favor a pact with UP or seek support from Cs.
However, the thousands supporters, who went last night to the headquarters of the PSOE in this capital to celebrate the triumph of the Socialists, demanded his secretary general not to negotiate an eventual alliance with Albert Rivera, leader of Citizens.
A demand that many analysts interpreted as the desire of the militancy that the outgoing president is committed to a deal with Unidas Podemos to form a progressive administration.
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