Prohens is left without the key deputy so as not to have to depend on Vox

The Balearic president, Marga Prohens, is left without the key deputy who gave her the majority so she does not always have to depend on Vox.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
12 December 2023 Tuesday 15:58
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Prohens is left without the key deputy so as not to have to depend on Vox

The Balearic president, Marga Prohens, is left without the key deputy who gave her the majority so she does not always have to depend on Vox. Formentera's only parliamentarian, Llorenç Córdoba, representative of the right-wing coalition sa Unió, has announced that he will not give his unconditional support to the PP, which leaves Prohens with one vote less than the entire left. Therefore, the Balearic president will now need Vox to vote in favor of all her initiatives when until now an abstention was enough. In fact, Prohens is president with the votes of the PP and sa Unió and with the abstention of Vox, which did not enter the Government.

The break with the deputy, who is also president of the Formentera Council, has occurred after dark political circumstances in which the Prohens Government has accused Córdoba of asking for a bonus in exchange for his vote. The deputy does not clarify if it is true, but points out that, if there are recordings, something confirmed by his former party, they were taken illegally. He has been varying the version of the breakup and the latest one he has given is that Prohens "lied" when he promised to change the boundaries of the island and now says that this is a responsibility of the Ministry and, therefore, he cannot do it.

The consequences of this weakness have begun to be seen in the processing of the budget project for next year. Vox threatens to knock down the accounts, more than 7.3 billion, and not provide support if the PP does not agree to incorporate a sum of 20 million euros to develop a pilot plan that guarantees the choice of language in all educational stages of Balearic education. starting from the next course.

The approval of this plan has already caused the first major political problem between PP and Vox. It was a condition of the far-right party to give its support to the spending ceiling in a political fight with Prohens that ended with the departure of a Vox deputy from the parliamentary group due to disagreements with his party.

Those from Abascal have presented an amendment to guarantee that item, an amendment that this Tuesday fell with the votes of the entire opposition and the abstention of the PP. The 'popular' say that there is still a week left to continue negotiating, but in the meantime the Prohens Government has seen how Vox's abstention has blown up twenty articles of the bill, which have been left out of the opinion that will reach the plenary session because Vox refused to support them.

The deletion of these articles has caused the document to reach the plenary session with enormous economic and legal inconsistencies that the PP will try to resolve when the text is voted on in the plenary session next week. The PP spokesperson in the Parliament, Sebastià Sagreras, indicated this Wednesday that there will be an agreement with Vox and that all the articles of the law that have declined can be recovered without problems.