The Congress's Board vetoes Junts' and PP's initiatives to vote in Congress for an early election

The Board of Congress, controlled by PSOE and Sumar, has rejected that the initiatives of Junts and the PP, which intended to urge Sánchez to call early elections, be voted on in Congress. The inadmissibility of the initiatives "is justified 'because Congress does not have the prerogative to decide if the president has to call elections'," according to the Board.

The parliamentary group of Junts has tried to activate a vote in the Plenary Session of Congress with the objective of demanding that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, proceed to the dissolution of the Courts and the call for general elections. This initiative was included in an amendment registered this Tuesday by the pro-independence party as an addition to the motion that the PP will put to a vote this Thursday, focused on the "parliamentary weakness of the coalition government."

"To urge the President of the Spanish Government to propose the dissolution of the Cortes Generales and call general elections, in accordance with the prerogative conferred upon him by current legislation, taking into account the political nature, without legal binding, of this initiative," is the text of the amendment.

Shortly after Junts' initiative became known, the 'popular' party, through its parliamentary spokesperson, also announced that they had registered a self-amendment in the same vein and with the identical aim: the conclusion of the legislature: "It urges the Government of Spain to recognize that the current legislature has come to an end, due to the political deadlock it is going through and that it act with the utmost institutional responsibility, returning the word to the citizens through the call for general elections in accordance with the constitutionally established provisions, to re-establish democratic normality, regain confidence in our democracy and ensure that the general interest prevails over any political interest," is the text registered this Tuesday.

Before the decision of the Congress's Board was announced, the parliamentary spokesperson for the PSOE, Patxi López, had been forceful in declaring: "Calling elections is the prerogative of the President of the Government. That is not voted on." López interpreted it in that way, meaning that the initiatives of Junts and PP could not be admitted.