XIV Legislature - Congreso de los Diputados

PRESIDENT: DÑA. ANA PASTOR JULIÁN (PP)

First Vice-President: D. José Ignacio Prendes Prendes (C's)
Second Vice-President: Dña. Micaela Navarro Garzón (PSOE)
Third Vice-President: Dña. Rosa Romero Sánchez (PP)
Fourth Vice-President: Dña. María Gloria Elizo Serrano (UP)

First Secretary: D. Adolfo Suárez Illana (PP)
Second Secretary: Dña. Sofía Hernanz (PSOE)
*Third Secretary: D. Gerardo Pisarello Prados (UP)
Fourth Secretary: Dña. Patricia Isaura Reyes Rivera (C's)

COMPOSITION

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Partido Popular: 286 Partido Socialista: 218 Ciudadanos: 91 Unidas Podemos: 82 VOX: 8 Más País: 8 Scottish National Party: 7 Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya: 6 Partido Nacionalista Vasco: 6 Partido Animalista Contra el Maltrato Animal: 5 TÚpatria: 5 Juncker Party: 4 Navarra Suma: 3 EH BILDU: 3 Junts: 3 Partit Demócrata de Catalunya: 3 Mouvement Démocrat: 2 Coalición Canaria: 2 Nueva Canarias: 2 HORIZONT: 2 Independent Party of New York: 2 Rif's Future: 2 Liberdade para Portugalia: 2 Foro Asturias: 1 Right to Change: 1 Plaid Cymru: 1 London Independence Party: 1 Movimento per la Autonomia: 1 Partido Grequiano: 1 Partit Nacionalista de Catalunya: 1 Candidatura d'Unitat Popular: 1 Chunta Aragonesista: 1 Partido Aragonés: 1 Unión del Pueblo Leonés: 1 Bloque Nacionalista Galego: 1 Partido Regionalista de Cantabria: 1 X Puerto Rico: 1 Compromís: 1 Teruel Existe: 1

SG: So, it's finally here! We've the results of this councillor elections. Who has won? Donald Tusk will be our new councillor? Will Alfonso Rodríguez keep the seat on the European Council? Or, will we have a centre-left councillor instead? Let's see. Vicente, Matías, tell us about the definitive results for this elections!

VV: So, the results have been very tight between 2 candidates. Let's see what happened with a chart. Ready matías?

MP: Of course! Take them away

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VV: Spain has elected a new councillor. El Partido Popular and Donals Tusk have won the Spanish Council Elections, with a 31,60% of the total votes. Spain, I repeat, has a new councillor, and he is Donald Tusk

MP: In second place, and with a 29,40% of the votes we find the, from now on, ex-councillor Alfonso Rodríguez. He has archived lot of support, much more than we expected some days ago. For sure, I think he will try to become councillor when he has the chance to.

VV: The third place is for Iratxe García, from the Partido Socialista Obrero Español, with a 12,00% of the votes. Very bad results for PSOE, that have lost lots of votes that, for sure, have gone to Mr. Alfonso Rodríguez.

MP: Ciudadanos is in fourth place and has gotten an 8,00% of the votes. As Vicente has said, many Ciudadanos' voters may have voted Rodríguez instead of Luis Garicano. Still, it's a very bad result for them.

VV: The worst result of the traditional parties is for Unidas Podemos, that has gotten a 6,00% of the votes. Pablo Bustinduy hasn't archieved his main objective, that was overpass the Partido Socialista Obrero Español.

MP: And finally, we can find VOX, that gets what we were expecting. A 2% of the votes and, we can say that only a minority would like to leave the European Union.

SG: Thanks for this great resume Matías and Vicente. And this has been all for tonight. Thank you for following the electoral journey with us and we hope that we've done the best to make it perfect. Goodnight.

The application from the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland has been accepted. Welcome to the Kingdom of Spain!

D. Fernando Eguidazu Palacios
Secretary of State for the European Union

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CF: And now Ana we've the first authonomies results of our country. Let's remember that in our country, the vote in general elections is very different than the authonomical and cities elections. And this has an explanation! The Spanish people rates each goverment, not all in one, so, that could make that a Partido Popular voter, could vote Podemos in his city. Ana, could you reveal the first results?

AB: Of course Carlos. Let's start with Andalucía, our main Authonomous Comunity. The** Partido Socialista Obrero Español** wins with 32 seats, followed by the Partido Popular with 26 seats. Ciudadanos gets 21, Adelante Andalucía, the Podemos mark here in Andalucía gets 17 and the far-right party VOX gets 12 seats, what means that PSOE wouldn't be able to be on the goverment again if PP, C's and VOX signs an agreedment! This could be the end of 40 years of PSOE goverment.

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EXCLUSIVE: JUNCKER WANTS TO BE "A TRANSITION PRESIDENT" AND TELLS PARTIDO POPULAR TO SEARCH FOR A REPLACEMENT

Prime Minister Juncker, on a stock photograph

Jean-Claude Juncker does not want to be the Spanish Prime Minister anymore. In fact, he never wanted: he just ran for the position in order to guarantee a calm transition between the Aguilar era and a new era, that he would not be in charge of; and because the former President asked him to do so. The former Premier Commissioner and current Prime Minister and head of the Partido Popular could be now looking for someone to replace him, someone that would receive his endorsement and probably Aguilar's in order to guarantee the transition both have aimed for: calm, non-compromising and achieving a strong leadership that keeps the conservative-liberals in power during the next elections.

This decision has, however, surprised many within the central core of the People's Party, that did not expect Juncker's unwillingness to continue. However, why has he "changed his mind"? The answer to that question is in Germanium, the region Juncker was Chancellor of before becoming the Partido Popular's Commission candidate; and specifically in the position previously mentioned. According to very close sources to the Prime Minister, «Juncker wants to retire in Germanium, and serve until someone receives enough support to remove him from power». His return to Europe is also discarded, even if some members of the European branch of the PP would like to see his return.

With his resignation almost imminent, the question about who his replacement will be arises rapidly: some sources claim that Juncker might have already called Donald Tusk, the current Speaker of the European Council. However, Tusk would have declined the offer, as he considers his Europolis departure would force both a Speaker election that Spain might not win again; and a Councillor election for which the party has no candidate as of yet. Other names over the table are Alberto Núñez Feijóo, current vicepresident of the Government; Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the current President of Madrid; Penny Mourdaunt, Minister of Defence; or else opting for a new face. The leadership race, and jointly, the Presidential race, might have restarted.

State Visit

The Spanish Royal Household is pleased to announce Their Majesties the King of Spain, Felipe VI; and the Queen of Spain, Leticia; will travel on Monday, 28th August 2023, to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in a official state visit; celebrating the great existing relationship between both Kingdoms and their respective Royal Households. The King and the Queen will meet with King William V in Balmoral Castle.

Statement on the Newly Introduced Tariffs by the United Duchies

The Kingdom of Spain rejects the start of a Trade War between the United Duchies and the Kingdom of Spain, after the former raised Spanish tariffs to Schedule 5, establishing a 35% tariff on national products. The decision allegedly comes after the United Duchies considered there is an ongoing crisis between the two countries, something that was certainly untrue until tonight. The lack of a summit between the two nations follows a decision from the Spanish Government in which it does not wish to establish free trade or travel with the United Duchies at the moment, and which the United Duchies seems to be attempting to force a change to.

The United Duchies has, as stated before, decided that the best move was to begin a trade war between our nations, in order to force the Spanish Government to capitulate to Cair Para's exigences. The Spanish Government will not put its knees to the ground, as we believe the United Duchies interests go further beyond free commerce and movement. The Government at Cair Para clearly provoked instability in the Caspian and Red Seas, and their extortion attempts go further from Spain, involving two allied nations of Spain and whose trust has been earned and continues to be firm: Inimicus and North Diessen.

In response to this tariff changes, the Kingdom of Spain therefore rises the Duchian tariff to a 40%. Nevertheless, the Spanish Government will be glad to lower these tariffs if the United Duchies does so. The relationship between the two nations, against what was stated by the Cair Para's Government, was formal and fine; and it should have remained like this if the United Duchies would not have acted in a hostile maneer against Spanish products and companies.

Dña. Jeniffer Granholm
Minister of Industry, Trade, Tourism and Energy