Catalan Party Head-PM Should Submit To Confidence Vote

El Pais reporting comments from Carles Puigdemont, leader-in-exile of the pro-Catalan independents Junts per Catalynua, saying that PM Pedro Sanchez should submit to a vote of no confidence in the Congress of Deputies. Junts sits as an uneasy partner propping up Sanchez's left-leaning minority gov't. Speaking in Brussels, Puigdemont said “Things are not going well,” and that "I want Congress to say whether he has a majority that keeps his confidence intact,”. 

• El Pais notes the method by which a vote could be called: "The rules of the Congress establish that the [PM], after deliberation in the Council of Ministers, may raise before the Congress of Deputies the question of confidence in his programme or in a declaration of general policy. After the written presentation, it is debated in a plenary session and submitted [for] a vote. The vote of confidence will be deemed to have been granted when he obtains the vote of a simple majority of the Deputies."
• In the event that Junts were to vote with the opposition in a such a vote, the gov't would be defeated.
• Nevertheless, the article writes that gov't sources claim Sanchez and his centre-left Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) does not see such a vote as necessary, and will not be submitting one to parl't.
• Only 'constructive' votes of confidence can be submitted by the opposition, requiring the nomination of an alternative PM who can carry a majority at the same time.