The deadline for registering the groups expires this Friday and the Chamber meets the following Monday to approve their creation. Junts and ERC are up in the air because they don’t meet all the requirements to form groups.
The Congress Bureau held its first meeting of the XV Legislature this Friday after Congress’s Constitutive Session next Thursday and has set a deadline for parliamentary group registrations to expire this Friday, August 25. The Chamber’s governing body will meet the following Monday, the 28th, to approve their establishment.
The house rules determine that the groups must be formed within five days of the composition of the congress but the Council has given a margin of one week for this process. Now the parties and coalitions must register the name they want to give to their groups and communicate who their spokespersons will be.
The PP, the PSOE, Vox, Sumar, PNV and EH Bildu are guaranteed to form groups because they meet all the requirements of the regulation.
However, both ERC and Junts, while holding seven seats each, do not reach the 15% percentage of the votes needed in the four Catalan provinces (only two), nor in the autonomous community as a whole, and will therefore have to look for for a formula to save that deficit.
However, the pro-independence parties are guaranteed to have their own groups thanks to the agreements reached with the PSOE to support Francina Armengol for president and the rest of the progressive candidates for the congressional table.
Once the board of directors has taken a first decision on the groups on August 28, important decisions for the functioning of the chamber can be taken, such as the distribution of seats in the chamber, which are necessary to convene the first plenary session .
Source: EITB
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