In the Senate, the PP allows PNV, Junts and Sumar to have their own group with the transfer of PSOE senators

The Chamber Board includes clauses that will eliminate the deputy spokespersons and reduce the advisors of these groups

The Senate Table, with a majority of the PP, gave the green light this Tuesday to the formation of the parliamentary groups of the PNV, Junts and Sumar in the Upper House with the transfer of senators from the PSOE based on the report of the legal services of the institution, which concludes that this loan has a place based on a ruling from the Constitutional Court of 2017.

This was explained by the first vice president of the Upper House, Javier Maroto, in the press conference after the meeting of the Senate Board, where he explained that the president of the institution, Pedro Rollán, has given the 'ok', with this report, to the formation of the remaining parliamentary groups.

In this context, Maroto has alleged that the report highlighted the differences between the Regulations of the Congress and the Senate, since in the Lower House it speaks of the percentage of votes in each constituency for the formation of parliamentary groups, while in the Senate it requires having at least ten seats to constitute a group.

For this reason, the first vice president of the Senate has justified this decision by Pedro Rollán to allow these formations to have their own parliamentary group in the Upper House, while the 'popular' continue to believe that the transfer of deputies in Congress is a "fraud of law".

BUT WITH CONDITIONS

Of course, Javier Maroto has specified that the formation of these parliamentary groups will be done with some 'clauses', which in any case concern all groups, although they do affect those who have a transfer of senators.

As explained, these clauses affect the deputy spokespersons and the number of advisors, since if the parliamentary groups want to maintain these spokespersons and the same number of advisors they will have to continue with ten senators in the group.

That is to say, if the socialist senators who have gone to the rest of the groups so that they can be formed end up returning to the Socialist Group, both the PNV, Junts and Sumar will lose their deputy spokesperson and will reduce the number of advisors by half.

The loan of these senators also affects the economic attribution of the groups, since while the socialist senators are in another parliamentary group, the PSOE in the Upper House will no longer receive what it is entitled to due to the ratio of that parliamentarian, that is, approximately 1,000 euros per senator.

THE GROUPS AND THEIR SITE

In this way, the Senate Board will have to definitively ratify next Tuesday the parliamentary groups, which will be the Popular Parliamentary Group, the Socialist Group, the Left Group for Independence (ERC-Bildu), PNV, Plural (Junts, CC and BNG), Confederal Left (Sumar, Geroa Bai and ASG) and the Mixed Group.

And it has also been approved where each group will sit, beyond the classic seats of the PSOE on the left and the PP on the right of the chamber, the ERC-Bildu group will also sit on the left side, close to the PSOE, to the just like Sumar's group. The PNV and Junts will be in the central site and the Mixed will go to the 'chicken coop'.

Achieving a parliamentary group means having representation in all the bodies of the Senate, guarantees more time to intervene in debates, allows for greater parliamentary initiative as well as more economic resources and human and material means.