The committee was composed by an absolute majority on Thursday, after two years of blockade.
Euskaraz irakurri: ERCk, EH Bilduk, JxCATek and CUPek sekretu ofizialen batzordean parte hartzea onartu du Kongresuak
Congress approved the participation of ERC, EH Bildu, Junts per Catalunya and the CUP in the so-called Reserved Expenses Commission, which can access matters classified as secret, receive information about the use of reserved funds and monitor the activities of the Center for National Intelligence (CNI).
After the secret ballot, Héctor Gómez (PSOE), Cuca Gamarra (PP), Iván Espinosa de los Monteros (Vox), Pablo Echenique (Unidas Podemos), Gabriel Rufián (ERC), Miriam Nogueras (Junts), Edmundo Bal (Citizens) , Aitor Esteban (PNV), Mertxe Aizpurua (EH Bildu) and Albert Botran (CUP).
This working group was able to be formed after the president of the congress, Meritxell Batet, presented to the House of Representatives lower the majority give a guarantee better political plurality in this committee and avoid vetoes against ERC, EH Bildu or any other pro-independence party.
The constitution with the new absolute majority, which replaces the three-fifths majority required by resolution since 1992, takes place days after the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, indicated that the government of Spain would look for all formulas to spying on pro-independence politicians and this commission could be set up.
The PP has criticized the PSOE for facilitating the accession of EH Bildu and the Catalan separatists to the new Commission on Official Secrets for the mere “political survival” of the coalition government, and is convinced that the Spaniards “won’t. They will forgive him” .”
In a short debate before the vote, in which the Independentistas refused to participate, PP representative José Antonio Bermúdez de Castro accused the socialists of breaking the consensus by “blackmailing their budget partners”.
The general secretary of the Vox parliamentary group in Congress Macarena Olona has had a scuffle with Congress president Meritxell Batet, who blames them for facilitating the entry of pro-independence formations like EH Bildu to official secrets , some accusations to which Batet has replied, blaming his lack of “respect” and “elegance” towards her and the Chamber.
Source: EITB
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