The replacement of the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, will be announced on September 9, said on Tuesday the Conservative Party, while the Labour opposition went to war with a motion of censure against its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who, however , refused to resign.
Cameron's replacement will be, in principle, responsible for presenting to the European Union's application for divorce after Brexit.
The EU leaders clearly expressed awaiting the official request from London to begin negotiations, and that there will be any kind of concession.
The deadline to submit applications to replace Cameron is only 24 hours between Wednesday and Thursday.
Initially, the 'Tories' were intended to present its new leader, which automatically takes over the government on September 2. "But to ensure the full participation of affiliates, the party leadership recommended that the date of the leader's appointment is September 9," according to a statement.
Cameron, 49, resigned on Friday after the referendum that he called.
The list of candidates will be led, if the predictions of experts are confirmed, Boris Johnson, deputy and former mayor of London, who led the campaign Brexit, and the candidate of Cameron, the interior minister Theresa May, who militated for stay in the EU, although it was originally Eurosceptic.
The Finance Minister, George Osborne, has already ruled out the possibility to fight for the job.
Another possible candidate would be the Minister of Agriculture, Jeremy Hunt, who in an article in a newspaper proposed a second referendum, once fixed the new relationship with the EU, which in his view should preserve access to the European single market.
Voting without legitimacy
The labor side, the opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said not resign despite losing a motion of censure on Tuesday, with 172 votes against it and 40 in favor because of the result of the referendum Brexit.
The motion does not require Corbyn, 69, to leave the position, as it should be ratified by party affiliates.
But puts you in a very difficult situation experienced socialist politician, accused of lack of leadership during the referendum campaign.
"I was democratically elected leader of our party to a new way of doing politics, for 60% of Labour members and their supporters, and I will not betray them by a waiver. The vote of the deputy has no legitimacy," Corbyn said in a statement.
The motion of censure must be ratified by a majority of the 150,000 affiliated to the party.
Corbyn took the lead Labour last September, after the failure of the last general elections.
Leaders without internal support
The current British political crisis shows the storm caused by Brexit that exposed the deep wounds territorial, social and generational in the country.
The United Kingdom is divided into two, and this division also affects the two parties that represent it. About 37% of Labour voters voted for the Brexit contrary position the official party line.
Corbyn account, according to the research, with the support of the party base. If they mobilize and barrarem the censure motion, there could be a real paradox, with Labour holding a leader who does not have enough parliamentary support.
The atmosphere within the party is "catastrophic", admitted Mr Chuka Umunna.
The conservative side, a politician like Johnson, who enjoys a good popular image, according to polls, could also encounter resistance within the conservative majority in the House of Commons (330 members) to negotiate the exit from the EU.
The solution for labor and conservative, would be new general elections. But an election campaign, in addition to causing new heated debates, no doubt paralyze the negotiations with the EU.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said before the Brussels summit that the "à la carte" option for the UK is totally discarded.
The one that keeps the good mood is Queen Elizabeth II. "In any case, I'm still alive," joked the monarch, 90, during his first public appearance since the referendum in Belfast.
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