• Sánchez criticizes Podemos for being last-in & first-out of four-party talks •
Anti-austerity Podemos moved Wednesday to scuttle a legislative accord reached by the Socialist party (PSOE) and centre-right Ciudadanos, withdrawing from four-party talks aimed at forming a new PSOE-led government and joining the conservative Popular Party (PP) in slamming the agreement as insufficient to elect PSOE leader Pedro Sánchez president in a vote slated for next week.
Podemos charged the PSOE-C’s pact with being incompatible with Podemos’ programme and designed to placate the PP into an abstention vote next week, to which PSOE’s Sánchez countered Thursday by criticising Podemos for being the last party to join and the first to leave four-party talks with PSOE, adding that the only “red line” that Spain’s left-wing parties should draw is on returning the PP’s acting-President Mariano Rajoy to power for four more years.
The PP lashed out at centre-right Ciudadanos, meanwhile, calling its accord with the PSOE a fraud, neither generating the sufficient number of votes needed to invest Sánchez as president nor able to deliver the Constitutional reforms at the core of the two parties’ agreement.
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