“Today, the PP is the only political alternative capable of rebuilding our civic and constitutional coexistence, and I proudly announce that I will run on its lists for the European Parliament to contribute to that goal”, confirmed this morning on the social network X the MEP and President of Legal Affairs of the European Parliament, Adrián Vázquez, who took the opportunity to thank Alberto Núñez Feijóo for his confidence. The PP, however, still has a question mark over who will head its list for the elections, something that must be revealed before Monday 6 May. Dolors Montserrat, now PP spokesperson in the European Parliament and head of the list in the last elections of 2019, is the favourite in the pools, although Génova has avoided confirming whether she will finally be elected. For the moment, this latest move confirms the attractiveness of Génova in the ranks of the liberal party.

Adrián Vázquez Lázara was an important figure in the orange party. The former secretary general of Ciudadanos has taken this decision after taking a step away from his former party, which he tried unsuccessfully to integrate into Genova. Now, a month later, he has just confirmed his move to the PP. “At a critical moment for our democracy, we have to be on the side of the defence of the rule of law and the founding values of the Union,” he said. Spain currently has 61 seats in the EU Parliament, out of a total of 705. The European People’s Party currently has 177 seats and the Ciudadanos MEPs belong to the European Parliament’s Renew liberal group, which has a total of 102 MEPs.

Eva Maria Poptcheva has so far been Vice-Chair of Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee and has been involved in several reports on anti-money laundering directives and the subsequent creation of the anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing authority.

Susana Solís is the Vice-President for relations with South Korea and has two reports as rapporteur, one of which focused on the promotion of gender equality.

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From the investiture of Adolfo Suárez in 1979 to that of Sánchez this week, Congress has hosted several investitures in its hemicycle, as well as several motions of censure, some of which have triumphed and others of which have been defeated. The first investiture debate was led by the aforementioned UCD politician, who was appointed President of the Government by 183 votes in favour, 149 against, eight abstentions and 10 absent deputies.

He was followed by Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, following Suárez’s resignation. It was February 1981, and the day of the second vote could not take place because of the 23F coup attempt. It was only two days later, on the 25th, that he was installed thanks to 186 votes in favour and 158 against.

The now veteran leader of the PSOE is an expert in investiture sessions. He has been a candidate in several of them and has a record number of votes: no less than 207 ‘yes’ votes. With this support, he was elected President of the Government by Parliament in 1982.

Four years later, Felipe González repeated his victory, this time with 184 votes in his favour, and in 1989 he was re-elected with 167 votes in his favour. According to the Congress website, this was because the Speaker’s Committee had set the absolute majority for the investiture session at this figure, following a disputed electoral appeal against the results of the elections in the constituencies of Pontevedra, Murcia and Melilla, which affected eighteen deputies.

In 1993, he won 181 votes, far more than the majority he needed, to enter what would be his last parliamentary term. José María Aznar then took over the government and his investitures were approved with 181 votes in favour (1996) and 202 votes in favour (2000).

The PP’s years in power gave way to a new PSOE government led by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who won the confidence of the House for the first time in 2004 with 183 votes in favour. One legislature later, he repeated the feat in La Moncloa after winning the second vote in 2008 with 169 ‘yes’ votes, 158 ‘no’ votes and 23 abstentions.

The PP won again at the ballot box in 2011 with Mariano Rajoy. At his first inauguration, he received 187 votes. A clear absolute majority that he would not repeat a few years later. In 2016, he was re-elected in the second vote with 170 ‘yes’ votes, thanks to the abstention of the PSOE, with the exception of a handful of Socialist deputies who broke party discipline and voted against. On the same day, a few hours earlier, Pedro Sánchez had resigned his parliamentary seat. The party was in tatters and a deep crisis was unfolding.

In the first days of 2020, Pedro Sánchez was sworn in as head of government. On 7 January, the Socialist general secretary won the second round of voting with 167 votes in favour, 165 against and 18 abstentions.

Now he goes to the investiture session with more support, a dozen more. This is despite the PP’s attempts to get PSOE deputies to betray him in the vote. The PP has even encouraged the possibility of a ‘tamayazo’ to prevent Sánchez’s re-election.

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