The president of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne (Vox) buys time. The Parliament’s lawyers guarantee that he continues to lead the institution due to a formal defect since the mutinous Vox deputies who decided to expel him from the parliamentary group and, consequently, his immediate dismissal as president, did not include this matter on the agenda. of the meeting.
The situation this Wednesday is that Le Senne has not been formally expelled from the parliamentary group, therefore, he automatically maintains the Presidency of the Parliament. The lawyers’ report is based on the Parliament’s regulations and on various rulings that warn that this expulsion could violate Le Senne’s fundamental rights.
The lawyers’ decision puts the tangle in which Balearic politics is immersed back to square one. The five Vox rebels who mutinied against the leadership must reconvene a new meeting with a single point on the agenda to debate and vote on the expulsion from the parliamentary group of the two deputies who remain loyal to Abascal: Le Senne himself and the president of Vox in the Balearic Islands, Patricia de las Heras.
If this new meeting takes place and the formal defect is corrected, the president of the Parliament will automatically fall from his position since the lawyers’ report does not enter into political considerations about the reasons for the group’s expulsion. The five deputies critical of Abascal have assured that they will study what they do from now on and whether they decide to maintain the fight against the leadership, which so far has cost them a precautionary suspension of Vox militancy pending the final expulsion from the party.
The dismissal of Le Senne, if it finally occurs, will open another political mystery: who will be the replacement at the head of the Presidency of the Chamber. The lawyers have delivered a second report to the Board in which they specify that all parliamentary groups will be able to present candidates, not just the group that held the Presidency, which was what Vox’s critics were pursuing.
The pact with Vox obliges the Balearic president, Marga Prohens, to support a member of Vox as president of the Chamber, but the president has specified that the same pact obliges her partners to guarantee stability with eight deputies. That option is unviable right now, so the final solution could be for the PP to directly assume the Presidency when the vote comes. position as president of the Balearic Parliament.
In a twelve-page text, the jurists conclude that their function is to determine whether the resolution of the five Vox deputies who fired Le Senne and the also deputy and regional president of the party, Patricia de las Heras, complied with “the basic formal requirements.” for the formation of the will of the parliamentary group”, do not question the substance of the decision.
For this reason, they establish that they establish that the Parliament Board, made up of Le Senne himself, two deputies from the PP and two representatives from the PSOE, cannot validate the expulsion document.
