Junts urges Sánchez to resign and let Congress choose a new prime minister to avoid elections
Junts spokesperson Miriam Nogueras proposed that Pedro Sánchez resign and allow the investiture bloc to select another president, citing corruption and a lost parliamentary majority. The government dismissed the demand as absurd.
The resignation demand
Junts spokesperson Miriam Nogueras, speaking in Congress on Wednesday, called on Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to step down and let the same parliamentary majority that backed his 2023 investiture choose a successor. She argued that Sánchez is politically weakened and lacks legitimacy to govern.
Step aside and let this Parliament put someone who has the ability to deliver for Catalonia and the Catalans.
Nogueras pointed to the resignation of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday as a model, suggesting that a new leader from the Socialist Party could continue the legislature without early elections.
Government dismisses call as 'absurd'
Moncloa sources told LaSexta that the request is "absurd" and that Sánchez has ample reasons to remain in office. One official ironised that if Junts wants a different president, "we can put Puigdemont in." The government challenged Junts to table a motion of censure if it truly seeks a change.
Sánchez has more than enough reasons to keep governing. If they want another president, let them support a motion of censure.
A senior PSC deputy added that Junts is simply trying to grab headlines.
A shift in Junts' strategy
The proposal marks a departure from Junts' previous stance. Since breaking the investiture agreement in November 2025 over unfulfilled commitments to Catalonia, the party had demanded early elections. Now it is offering a third path: replace the prime minister without going to the polls.
Today you have neither a majority nor legitimacy to hold power. Everything cannot be paralysed because of one person.
Nogueras stressed that Junts does not want the far right to gain power and that clinging to office only strengthens Vox.
Corruption and broken pact as backdrop
The intervention came during a plenary session that followed the sentencing of former minister José Luis Ábalos to 24 years in prison. Nogueras said the government spends too much energy managing Sánchez's personal problems and that corruption, combined with the broken Catalan pact, makes the situation unsustainable.
- Junts breaks the investiture agreement over unfulfilled commitments to Catalonia
- UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigns, a model cited by Nogueras
- Nogueras proposes Sánchez resign and let Congress choose a new president
- PP motions for a confidence vote and elections are debated in Congress and Senate
After the plenary, the Congress is set to debate a PP motion demanding Sánchez submit to a confidence vote, while the Senate will discuss a call for elections that the lower house speaker blocked last week.
