The deputies of the Balearic Parliament must elect a new president of the Chamber as a result of a serious internal crisis in Vox, the party that holds the Presidency of the Chamber on the islands. The guarantees committee of the ultra party has decided to maintain the precautionary suspension of militancy of five Balearic deputies who mutinied against the leadership. Last week, the five deputies presented a letter in which they announced the expulsion from the parliamentary group of the president of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne (Vox) and the party president. Vox achieved eight deputies in the last regional elections.
The political consequence of this decision is the automatic fall of the president of the Chamber since the regulations say that any deputy expelled from his group is immediately stripped of his parliamentary positions. The two sides of Vox have maintained contacts these days to try to reach an agreement, but the precautionary suspension of militancy confirmed by the guarantee committee closes the possibility of settling the institutional crisis in which the Balearic Islands is mired with a pact.
Last week, Le Senne prevented his automatic dismissal by requesting some reports from the Chamber’s lawyers. The Parliament’s Board, in which PP and PSOE are represented, in addition to the president of Vox, agreed to request these reports, which could most likely be known this Wednesday at the meeting held again by this parliamentary body.
The two reports must resolve whether the dismissal of the president of the Parliament is automatic and, if so, what procedure should be followed to elect the replacement. It is in this aspect where a political battle has opened on the islands since the opposition fears that the Balearic president, Marga Pohens, will agree to appoint one of the mutinous Vox deputies as president of the Parliament to guarantee her votes.
Prohens has 25 deputies and needs 5 more votes for the absolute majority, precisely those of the Vox members who are in the process of being expelled, hence the opposition’s fear that the Parliament will be in the hands of a future turncoat. The PP does not say for now what its position will be, but the president has given some clues about her intentions; assures that she is willing to fulfill her pact with Vox and give the Presidency of the Parliament to the formation, not to the turncoats, in exchange for Abascal’s party guaranteeing the eight deputies that it committed at the beginning of the legislature to give stability to the Government Balearic.
Vox is now completely fragmented between the five rebel deputies, two who remain loyal to Abascal’s leadership and one more who has already been expelled and has remained as a non-attached deputy due to previous differences in the formation. With this panorama, the PP is weighing what steps to take and in the conservative formation it is already beginning to seriously consider the possibility that the Presidency will finally fall into the hands of the PP given the impossibility of Vox recomposing itself.
