The Constitutional Court (TC) has endorsed this Monday the mathematical formula that was agreed upon by various groups in the Board of the Parliament of Catalonia so that Vox would be left without a senator of autonomous appointment at the beginning of the current legislature, in April 2021. This is the Imperiali formula, which also deprived the CUP of a seat in the Senate.
The First Chamber of the High Court, unanimously, approves the proportional system chosen at that time and denies protection to the group led by Ignacio Garriga in the Catalan Chamber.
In the governing body of the Parliament it was decided to opt for a different formula than usual so that Vox, the fourth group in number of deputies in the institution, would not obtain one of the eight seats that are distributed for the Senate in the regional elections.
The choice of the Imperiali formula was the idea of ??the independence groups and the commoners. Until then, this mathematical proportion had always been made with the D’Hondt system or that of major remains, two formulas that would have granted Vox a seat in the Upper House.
The ruling notes that “Vox’s right to political representation has not been violated” and states that “the regional regulations regulating the proportional appointment of regional senators in Catalonia attribute to the Board, after the celebration of each of the regional elections and in view of the formation of the parliamentary groups, the power to set in each case the number of senators that proportionally correspond to each of these groups without any limit to specify said proportionality in accordance with the system or distribution formula that is considered more appropriate”.
