Spain's acting PM rejects conservative leader's request to back 2-year government
August 30, 2023
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has rejected a proposal made by conservatives' leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo to support his People's Party for a two-year government term, Feijoo told reporters on Wednesday. Feijoo's party won the most seats but came short of a working majority in a national election last month and he is trying to garner support in the lower house to secure premiership in a vote on Sept. 27. He had asked Sanchez, a Socialist, in a meeting earlier on Wednesday to back him in exchange for policy pacts. "Unfortunately, what I have obtained, as far as I...