MADRID, Oct 24 (Reuters) – The Socialist Party (PSOE) and the left-wing Sumar have reached a coalition agreement to form a government in Spain, including a plan to reduce working hours without loss salary, the two parties announced Tuesday.
The agreement was concluded following a meeting on Monday between the socialist Pedro Sanchez, president of the outgoing government, and his Minister of Labor and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Diaz.
However, the PSOE and Sumar alone do not have an absolute majority in the Congress of Deputies following the legislative elections in July, which did not produce an obvious winner.
The conservatives of the Popular Party (PP) came first in this election but their leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo did not manage in September to obtain the vote of a majority of deputies to become president of the government, despite the support of the party far-right Vox. (Written by David Latona, French version Bertrand Boucey, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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