The new Parliament will elect its presidency this Monday without clear majorities
Catalonia's new parliament, which emerged from the polls on May 12, will hold its constituent session this Monday, during which the presidency, two vice-presidencies and four secretaries of the chamber will have to be elected, votes still without clear majorities.
Of the 135 deputies of the new Parliament – the absolute majority is 68 seats – 42 come from the PSC, 35 from Junts, 20 from ERC, 15 from the PP, 11 from Vox, 6 from Comuns Sumar, 4 from the CUP and 2 from the Catalan Alliance.
The plenary session for the composition of the Parliament of the XV Legislature will begin at 4 p.m., without it being possible to see for the time being in which party the presidency of the chamber or the rest of the positions of the Table will fall. . It is not even clear how many votes can still be counted, after the Constitutional Court accepted the appeal of the PSC-Units group against the agreements of the last parliamentary table, which allowed the telematic vote of former minister Lluís Puig from abroad . . This could affect the constituent session of the new parliament, in which an age table – led by Agustí Colomines (JxCat), the eldest, together with Júlia Calvet (Vox) and Mar Besses (ERC) – will have to decide whether the TC will disobey will be and allow the three deputies who remain outside Spain to vote: Carles Puigdemont and Lluís Puig (JxCat) and Ruben Wagensberg (ERC), who is on medical leave.
The first vote – through ballot papers deposited in a ballot box – with the name of a substitute – will have to elect the presidency of the Catalan Chamber, a key position because it will be the one who will nominate a candidate for the inauguration of the next president of the Generalitat. The candidate to preside over Parliament needs an absolute majority on the first vote; In the second round, the candidate who initially receives the most support from the two with the most votes is chosen.
If each of the eight parties with representation votes for one of their own deputies, the name with the most votes will be a name of the PSC – winner of the Catalan elections – but if there is an agreement between Junts and ERC, the presidency will reduced to an independence delegate, which would open the door to the first candidate proposed for the inauguration, not the socialist Salvador Illa, but Carles Puigdemont.
Once the plenary session on the Constitution ends, a period of ten working days will be activated during which the new presidency of Parliament will open a round of consultations with parliamentary leaders and propose a candidate for an investiture that will take place on June 25 at 8 p.m. the last. (Efe)