00:00 Spain's king, Felipe VI, is calling on him to try and form a government and to be the
00:05 new prime minister.
00:06 Alberto Núñez-Fejo, leader of the right-wing People's Party, will try to put a ruling coalition
00:12 in place after last month's inconclusive general elections.
00:17 The first guarantee is that I am the candidate of the party that won the general elections
00:22 on the 23rd of July.
00:24 The second endorsement is that there are four parties, four political formations, whose
00:28 combined number of MPs comes to 172.
00:34 With that, putting myself at the disposal of the head of state is my duty.
00:39 The prediction of an outright win for the right-wing on the 23rd of July failed to materialize.
00:44 The conservative Popular Party fell short of an absolute majority, even with the eventual
00:49 support of the far-right Vox party.
00:52 That means that the outgoing socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, also has a chance
00:55 of holding onto power.
00:57 He too has had consultations with the king.
01:01 To form a government, Alberto Núñez-Fejo needs 176 seats in the 350-seat parliament.
01:09 But his PP has just 137, while potential allies Vox and two small regional parties only have
01:15 33 between them.
01:17 That comes to 172, four shorter the number needed.
01:21 Sánchez, meanwhile, wants to return at the head of a progressive government of the centre
01:25 and radical left and insists he can garner more support than Feijong.
