The state parties are waiting for the support of the Catalans to invest Pedro Sánchez and form a coalition government. The armed forces are already in talks.
The PSOE and Sumar have decided to cede Catalan deputies to Junts per Catalunya (JXCat) and Esquerra Republicana (ERC) to make it easier for both parties to each form their parliamentary group in the Congress of Deputies.
Congressional rules allow this form a group to parties that comply with the following requirements: have 15 seats or, with a minimum of five, more than 5% of the vote in all of Spain or 15% in the constituencies in which they agree. PP, PSOE, Vox and Sumar meet the first requirement; EH Bildu and PNV, the second.
JXCat and ERC they each got seven alternates in the 23-J election, but don’t get the 15% in some constituencies, nor in Catalonia as a whole. The idea with this decision is to help them cross that minimum by transferring their Catalan deputies so they can add up their vote percentages and cross the required minimum.
The platform headed by Yolanda Díaz announced this morning that it will produce two of its deputies, namely the one elected from Girona, Jùlia Boada, and the one from Tarragona, Félix Alonso. Once the group was formed, these two deputies would leave the ERC group to join Sumar. Socialist sources have confirmed that the PSOE is considering the same formula as the Junts.
From Sumar, they explained that they made this decision on the basis that the ERC will “predictably be one of the “pillars of the investiture” of Pedro Sánchez and thus “of the coalition government”.
The Congressional Table, which is autonomous in interpreting the regulation, will be in charge of studying it and, if it deems it appropriate, launching this solution next Monday, August 28. This practice is allowed in some legislatures.
It’s important to get your own group because it allows you to collect the grants from Congress. In addition, the political groups have a fixed time to intervene in the debates, unlike the Mixed Group whose members have to divide the times.
Currently, the parliamentary groups PP, Vox, EH Bildu and PNV have been formed.
Source: EITB
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