The Balearic Parliament Board has postponed the possible replacement of its president, Gabriel Le Senne (Vox), pending two reports from lawyers who must resolve whether his expulsion from the parliamentary group was correct and what mechanism should be followed to elect a new candidate. The Balearic Islands have been in a serious institutional crisis since five of the seven Vox deputies mutinied against Santiago Abascal and decided to expel the president of the party in the islands, Patricia de las Heras, and the president of the Parliament, Gabriel, from the parliamentary group. Le Senne.
The Parliament’s regulations establish that the expulsion of the group automatically means that it will be stripped of its status as president, but Le Senne has bought time by requesting these reports to resolve whether the expulsion of the two deputies was correct and what mechanism should be followed. be followed now to elect a new president of the House. To complete the legal gibberish in which the Balearic Islands are currently in, one of the left-wing parties, Més per Menorca, has requested by surprise that this decision of the Board be challenged and assures that its members may have prevaricated by not strictly complying what the regulations establish, which is expulsion.
In parallel, Vox, PSOE and Més have announced that they will promote an express modification of the regulations to shield Le Senne and expel the five rebel Vox deputies from the parliamentary group. They want this rule to come into force immediately, accelerating the procedures as much as possible, something that has already been opposed by Més per Menorca, Podemos and the PP, who consider that the reforms cannot come into force in this legislature.
In the midst of this legal movement, the Balearic president, Marga Prohens, was in Brussels yesterday in an attempt to convey a message of normality, which has very little to do with the turbulent political situation that is being experienced in the Islands. The Vox leadership has threatened the president with consequences, for now undetermined, if she makes a pact with the mutineers. Prohens has 25 deputies in the Parliament and the absolute majority is 30, that is, she is missing precisely the five deputies that the rebels can offer her.
The PP spokesperson in the Parliament, Sebastià Sagreras, has called on Vox to stop making threats, resolve its internal problems and say whether it is still in a position to offer Prohens the votes that guarantee stability in the Parliament. Although the shadow of early elections has been looming for weeks in the Balearic Islands, Sagreras recalled yesterday that the call could not be made until April so that the elections could be held in May.
The PP does not clarify what will happen to the presidency of the Parliament, which the turncoat deputies want to claim, for whom Vox has already opened an expulsion file. The five parliamentarians insist that the Presidency of the Balearic Chamber must be theirs by virtue of the agreement signed with the PP and the PP answers that Vox must guarantee its eight deputies so that the agreement is fulfilled in the terms in which it was signed.
The opposition warns of the situation of enormous political instability that the Islands are experiencing and alerts the PP that they will be very vigilant if they decide to agree with some turncoat deputies. The socialist spokesperson in the Balearic Parliament, Iago Negueruela, has wondered if Prohens has already closed some type of agreement with those expelled from Vox to remain in the Government at all costs. Més deputy Ferran Rosa blames Prohens for having caused this situation of instability by relying on the extreme right to govern.
