Felipe VI, king of Spain, gave to Pedro Sanchez the task of forming a government, but the socialist leader has already announced that "at least a month" of negotiations will be needed to present himself in the chamber.
Thus begins to turn the constitutional clock, which sanctions the maximum time of two months from the first investiture debate to form an Executive, under penalty of returning to the polls without appeal.
Sanchez's attempt does not promise to be easy. The party We can, who finished third in the December elections, said he was willing to enter a government with the socialists, but a hypothetical Psoe-Podemos alliance would also need the support of thefar left and to the Basque and Catalan autonomists.
After the December elections, which fragmented the Spanish Parliament forcing the parties to seek difficult alliances, the outgoing premier, the conservative Mariano Rajoy, had relaunched the idea of a grand coalition: "My proposal - he said - is an executive led by the Popular Party together with the PSOE and Ciudadanos".
