Having its own parliamentary group gives the parties more economic and technical resources, independence in managing their legislative initiatives or controlling the government, more time for interventions in plenary sessions, and more representatives in parliamentary bodies.
After the composition of the Cortes, the political forces are immersed in negotiations on the composition of the tables of both chambers and the formation of parliamentary groupswhich will provide the first indications of possible support for the investment of a president of the Spanish government. Neither ERC nor Junts They meet the requirements to have their own parliamentary group in Congress, a matter of vital importance to the parties, so the search for formulas that will allow them to achieve this is central to these negotiations.
Having its own parliamentary group allows political parties greater financial and technical resources, independence in managing their legislative or control initiatives to the government, more time in interventions in plenary sessions and more representatives in parliamentary bodies.
Intervention times and visibility
The parliamentary groups have a fixed time to intervene in the debates, with a more active parliamentary presence, unlike the mixed group, in which members must share the times.
They would guarantee this at least one representative on all committeesincluding those of Official Secrets and Reserved Expenses, in which the deputies have access to confidential information.
Likewise, they would have a place in the Permanent Deputationthe body that replaces the plenary in non-ordinary periods and when parliament is dissolved.
They would be entitled to that too participate in all debates in plenary sessions, and enter the quotas applicable to the government’s auditing sessions, during which they may from time to time directly question and question the next head of the executive branch with resulting motions. In addition, they would have more benefits for it debate their non-statutory proposals.
In the annual debates about the state of the nation, some 15 motions for resolutions per political groupa figure that is considerably lower for the formations integrated in the Mixed.
economic benefits
On the other hand, in addition to material resources, the congress also provides the parliamentary groups with a fixed grant identical for everyone and one more variable depending on the number of deputies of each of them.
Under the Congressional Economic Regime, which was updated in June, the subsidy is per group €30,346.72 monthly, in addition to a variable of € 1746.16 monthly for each alternate. In the case of the mixed group, the ‘cake’ is handed out among all its members.
Source: EITB
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