The President of India tasks Modi with forming the Government before her inauguration on Sunday

June 7 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The president of India, Droupadi Murmu, this Friday entrusted the country’s elected prime minister, Narendra Modi, with the task of forming a government after his victory in the legislative elections that ended on June 4 and which have meant a severe blow to the head. of Government, which faces a historic third term with the need to undertake coalition negotiations for the first time.

“The president has appointed me as prime minister-elect and I have informed her that the oath-taking will take place on Sunday,” Modi announced this Friday after the meeting that the two held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential residence in New Delhi.

Modi has added, in comments reported by the newspaper ‘The Hindu’, that his intention is to deliver to the president “the complete list of his Council of Ministers before the ceremony.”

Modi’s party, the Indian People’s Party or Bharatiya Janata (BJP), has only won 240 seats in the lower house of Parliament and has needed 53 additional seats from the coalition it champions, the National Democratic Alliance, to achieve a majority.

In this scenario, Modi urgently needs his coalition partners to carry out a new Government and that is why contacts have already begun to configure this Council of Ministers.

Modi’s BJP could be forced to moderate some of its ultranationalist rhetoric in order to reach a consensus with the rest of the parties, which in turn could lead to a fragile coalition with which it would be difficult to carry out the ambitious economic reforms to continue promoting growth.