The PSOE has made it easier for the PNV and Junts to form their own parliamentary group in the Senate with the transfer of several of its senators to these formations so that they reach the minimum number required, according to what parliamentary sources have informed Europa Press. In any case, it will be the Senate Table, where the PP has a majority, the body that has to give the OK to this movement.
The Senate Regulations require a minimum of ten components to form a parliamentary group, a number that can be reduced during the course of the legislature but can never be less than six. That is where the Senate Table comes in, with the Presidency and the majority of the PP, to supervise this process.
After the elections of the past 23-J, and taking into account the senators by designation of the autonomous Parliaments, the PNV has five members in this legislature, so the PSOE will have to give up another five senators so that it can form its group parliamentary.
In addition, if you want the group not to end up diluting during the legislature, the Socialists will have to keep at least one parliamentarian in this group so that it does not dissolve when the session ends.
Something similar happens with Junts, although Carles Puigdemont’s formation has only three senators in the Senate. However, parliamentary sources have informed Europa Press that they will join forces with the senator from the Canary Islands Coalition, using the same formula as the previous legislature.
In any case, the sum of Junts and Coalición Canaria only add up to four senators, so the PSOE will lend them at least six members to facilitate the parliamentary group of both formations, which in the previous legislature was called “Nationalist Group”.
As is the case with the PNV, the Socialists would have to continue with at least two parliamentarians in this group so that this nationalist group does not end up dissolving when the session ends. IT ALSO MAKES IT EASY TO ADD
Likewise, the PSOE, within this intention to give up senators to have “how many more voices” in the Upper House, has also decided to allow the Confederal Left Group to be reissued in the Senate, where three member parties of Sumar and the Socialist Association are found. Gomera (ASG).
In other words, the group will be made up of Compromís, Más Madrid, ASG and the senator of the PSOE-Sumar coalition in Ibiza/Formentera and will have as its first spokesperson the parliamentarian of the Madrid formation, Carla Antonelli.
To do this, the PSOE will give them another six senators, although this group is waiting for the Parliament of Navarra to appoint Uxue Barkos, from Geroa Bai, to join this conglomeration.
In the absence of senators from any community being appointed, the Senate chamber will be made up of fifteen political parties: PP (143), PSOE (92), ERC (6), Bildu (5), PNV (5), Junts ( 3), Vox (3), ASG (1), AHI (1), UPN (1), Compromís (1), Más Madrid (1), Geroa Bai (1), BNG (1), Canarian Coalition (1) .
There were already the parliamentary groups of the PP, PSOE and ERC-Bildu, who presented themselves jointly to the elections in the Upper House and will repeat the same parliamentary group formula, although in this case the representation of Bildu has grown and could monopolize more prominence within the group.
And taking into account the loans from the PSOE to the rest of the parties to form their own parliamentary groups, one would expect that Vox and UPN would end up forming part of the Mixed Group. And it remains to be seen what BNG and AHI will do.
Achieving a parliamentary group means having representation in all the Senate bodies, spokespersons and intervention and initiative shifts, as well as more financial resources and human and material resources.
