First-order institutional crisis in the Balearic Islands after five of the seven Vox deputies in the regional parliament have requested the expulsion from the parliamentary group of the party president, Patricia de las Heras, and the president of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, to the who also ask that he leave his position on the Board, by virtue of the regulations of the Balearic chamber.
The vice president of Vox, Ignacio Garriga, has already announced that he has proposed the precautionary expulsion of these deputies from the party, which complicates the situation for the Balearic president, Marga Prohens. The PP has 25 deputies in the Balearic Parliament and needs the five mutineers to form the 30 deputies that form the absolute majority. Vox is left with two deputies in the Chamber, which are not enough for Prohens.
The five deputies have mutinied against the national leadership of the party, which has tried to set the line of action of the deputies from Madrid against the position that the group of deputies wants to maintain on the islands. The last discrepancy has to do with a statement against Prohens’ linguistic policy that the national leadership demanded, with which the deputies did not agree.
In parallel, this internal explosion of the formation is part of the deep division of the party in the Islands, between the party, faithful to the thesis of Santiago Abascal, and the parliamentary group, where the critical sector now has a large majority. The spokesperson for the rebels, Idoia Ribas, has justified the request for expulsion on organizational reasons.
The first consequence of this movement will affect the Presidency of the Parliament, since the deputies ask for the replacement of the president of the Chamber, Gabriel Le Senne, in application of the regulations. The rebels have already requested that this mechanism be activated to elect another name instead of Le Senne. In this situation, it remains to be seen what position Marga Prohens’ PP takes, which will have to vote for the new candidate if the mechanism is activated.
The differences between the parliamentary group and the party go back a long way and were reflected this weekend in Madrid, when none of the representatives of the critical sector attended the assembly in which Santiago Abascal was re-elected as president.
