Sánchez confirmed that he will seek to be re-elected and asked Feijóo not to "press"

The president of the Spanish Government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, and his right-wing rival and leader of the Popular Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, ratified their intentions to be elected as the country's top leaders starting tomorrow, when the new Parliament takes office and the process to form a government after the July elections begins.

When meeting with the Socialist deputies and senators who won seats in the elections, Sánchez demanded that Núñez Feijóo stop demanding the investiture because he lacks the necessary support in Parliament, despite the fact that he does not have it yet either.

"The PP must be able to understand and respect our parliamentary system, accepting something as basic and as legitimate as that in Spain whoever gets the most support governs" in Parliament, said Sánchez, who aspires to be invested with the support of Together for Catalonia (JxC) and other regional pro-independence parties.

Seeking to attract these forces, the socialist leader promised to promote the use of Catalan, Basque and Galician in the institutions of the European Union (EU), whose temporary presidency is currently exercised by Spain, a claim of the nationalists.

"Spain speaks in Spanish, but it also speaks in Catalan, in Basque, in Galician," said Sánchez, in a better position to gather the necessary support to be president of the Government, despite the fact that the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) obtained 16 deputies less than the PP (121 by 137),

"We are going to promote its use in community institutions as a commitment that I am going to deploy throughout the Spanish presidency of the European Union," he said.