The internal and institutional crisis of Vox in the Balearic Islands also threatens to affect other institutions on the islands where the right-wing extremists govern with the PP. This Monday, five deputies expelled from the group the leader of the party, Patricia de las Heras, and the president of the parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, which led the national leadership of Vox to ask the party's guarantee committee for their expulsion. five MPs who retained control of the group. The crossroads now facing the regional government's president, the popular Marga Prohens, who governs with the parliamentary support of Vox, involves two options and neither is good: relying on the five wayward ones who give her a numerical majority, and risk the wrath of taking over the national leadership of the Ultra party or opting for the two MPs who were expelled from the group by their colleagues and do not provide them with enough support.
The PP has 25 regional MPs, just like the entire left – PSOE, Més per Mallorca, Més per Menorca and Podemos – combined, while the rest of Parliament is made up of the five MPs that Vox wants to throw out of Parliament. The two were this Monday excluded and will be non-attached MPs, the former Vox MP who left the party in October and the representative of Formentera, whom his party Sa Unió, a coalition of PP and Compromís on the island, kicked out of the party. The party subsequently denounced that he had blackmailed the president of the regional government. Only an agreement with the five stubborn Vox MPs would enable Prohens to continue to agree to his proposals, as he would otherwise have to rely on concrete agreements with left-wing groups.
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This Tuesday, in an interview on RNE, the vice president of Vox, Ignacio Garriga, issued a warning in which he explained that the popular leader faces an uncertain and irregular legislative period “because she is at the mercy of the decisions of five people who “have shown themselves.” that “they are motivated solely by personal ambitions.” Meanwhile, Prohens continues to stick to the speech he has made since the crisis began and ensures that this is not a problem that the regional government concerns, but remains limited to Parliament. “There is no news that concerns the government and we continue to demand responsibility and continue to demand that this situation affecting the Balearic Parliament be resolved as quickly as possible.” “It is an internal crisis within Vox and in the face of an internal one “I have absolutely nothing to say about the crisis in a political party that is not mine,” he said in statements to the media in Formentera.
Despite his refusal, the situation becomes complicated at times. The PP governs in the Consell de Mallorca together with Vox, which has joined the island institution's government team and effectively holds the vice presidency. In Palma, Mayor Jaime Martínez, of the PP, governs thanks to the support given to him by the Vox city councilors in plenary sessions after reaching a programmatic agreement. The tandem between the two parties also extends to the Consell de Menorca, which has plunged into crisis after the institution's president, the popular Adolfo Vilafranca, dismissed in November the only Vox city councilor who had given him a majority. In municipalities like Calvià and Marratxí, both parties are in power.
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The institutional split opened a new chapter this Tuesday with the refusal of the President of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, to leave office without receiving positive legal reports from the Chamber's lawyers. The parliamentary executive committee is scheduled to convene this Wednesday, consisting of Le Senne, two deputies from the PP and two other deputies from the PSOE, who will process the Vox group's request for the exclusion of Le Senne and his partner De las Heras. “We are examining the situation in detail and will request legal reports on this matter because we see that the matter is complicated,” Le Senne said. And the last reform of the Chamber's Rules of Procedure took place in 2016, taking into account the opposite case that concerned the then President of the Podemos Parliament, Xelo Huertas, who was expelled first from the party and then from the parliamentary group. “Now the situation is reversed,” emphasized Le Senne, as “the party loyalists” have been expelled from the group and “the rebels” have remained in the group. Le Senne has said he will meet with members of the chamber's board to try to reach an agreement that will allow him to get some breathing room and stay in office until he has at least a legal report.
Meanwhile, the five MPs who control the group have insisted they are still part of Vox and have appealed to the national leadership to reframe the situation. The group's deputy spokesman, Sergio Rodríguez, stressed that he had never intended to leave the party and issued a warning to the national leadership: “Ostrich politics has never solved any problem.” The deputy explained that the first division came into being with the negotiations with the PP on the language separation plan, which led to the departure of the deputy to Menorca Xisco Cardona. According to Rodríguez, shortly afterwards the party leadership in Madrid tried to persuade deputies to open a new political front for 25% of classes in Spanish. A week ago, the party sent a press release to the media with some “inflammatory statements” made by the president of Vox in the Balearic Islands about the language “that gave the impression that they wanted to blow up the agreement”. “It was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Rodríguez, who also accused De Las Heras of “absolute lack of leadership.”
According to Rodríguez, Le Senne's exclusion was due to his status as a member of the provincial executive committee and his participation in the initiative. The position as president of the chamber exempted him from participation in everyday life. “Le Senne will know what guidelines he wants to follow and to what extent he can position himself in this position,” he said of the President of Parliament's intention to remain in office until he receives legal reports on the situation. Despite the storm surge, Rodríguez wanted to send a sign of calm to the PP and ensure that it continues to guarantee governability in the Balearic Islands. “We remain loyal to what the PP signed with Vox, we will stand our ground on all points, there are no new negotiations or other demands. “The stability and governability in the Balearic Islands is absolutely guaranteed; we are not considering any other election scenarios in the near future other than those already announced,” he emphasized.
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