The appointment of Feijóo as a candidate for the presidency of the Spanish government activates the deadlines to determine whether there will be a new president or whether, on the contrary, an electoral rerun will be necessary.
The designation by King Felipe VI of Alberto Núñez Feijóo as a candidate to preside over the Government of Spain activates the institutional clock of the deadlines for the investiture session(s) or, if necessary, for the rerun of elections.
For practical purposes, the fact that a first candidate has come forward after the first round of contact means that the only conditions laid down in the Constitution will count once the new Cortes are assembled.
In Article 99, the Magna Carta stipulates that if, after the two-month period from the first investiture vote, no candidate obtains the confidence of the chamber, the king shall dissolve both chambers and call new elections, which shall be held. days after.
However, the Constitution does not specify how much time must elapse between the time when the king nominates a candidate and the time when he defends his candidacy in the Chamber.
It is the President of Congress, Francina Armengol, who must set the date of the inauguration. Rather, as she herself announced when passing on the name of the candidate, she will call Feijóo to hear his opinion and make the most appropriate decision.
A date that would de facto mark the day on which elections should be held if it were necessary to repeat them.
On what could be Armengol’s chosen day, the PP’s leader has given some clues by defending the time to speak because “doing an inauguration without speaking to the groups would mean a non-parliamentary format” and would imply “disparity” with respect to other applicants.
Armengol has refused to accede to this request, although it has shown its willingness to facilitate the negotiations.
What would be clear is that if they want to release Christmas before a hypothetical election call, the investiture debate would have to be held in the last week of August or postponed until the end of September.
This would remove the danger of elections on such important dates, a threat that was already considered in 2016 and forced an amendment to the electoral law to reduce the election campaign from 15 to 8 days.
Source: EITB
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