Vox is preparing to fight the legal battle in the Balearic Islands and has ordered the management of the islands that the president of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, not resign from office, despite the fact that in principle his dismissal should occur automatically at the Table of the Parliament that is held this Wednesday. Santiago Abascal does not want to make things easy for the five deputies who mutinied against the national leadership.
The Balearic Islands are in the middle of a serious institutional crisis after five of the seven deputies that Vox has in the Balearic Parliament agreed to the expulsion of the others from the parliamentary group. These two deputies are the president of the party on the islands, Patricia de las Heras, and the president of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, loyal to Santiago Abascal. The regulations of the Balearic chamber establish that the expulsion of a parliamentary group immediately strips the deputy of all his positions, in this case the Presidency, but Vox believes that this is not the case.
The still president has explained that Vox's legal services understand that the suspension is not automatic and has commissioned the Parliament's lawyers to prepare a report on this matter. The Balearic Islands experienced a situation similar to that experienced now during the first left-wing pact, when Podemos expelled the then president of the Parliament, Xelo Huertas, who was finally forced to leave office.
Vox believes that the situation is not similar because Huertas was expelled from Podemos, but he has not been expelled from Vox. "The case of Xelo Huertas is the opposite because she was expelled from her party, which is not my case," says Gabriel Le Senne. The president of the Balearic Chamber remembers that at that time a modification was made to the regulations to facilitate the expulsion of deputies who dissented from the party. "Here the opposite happens, because it is the rebels who want to expel the loyalists," he says. "It is a complex issue and must be studied calmly," he adds.
The Vox leadership meets this Tuesday to analyze the situation that has been created after the rebellion of most of the parliamentary group and it is expected that they will ask them to leave their institutional positions. The national leadership of the party has already opened an expulsion file against the five deputies and accuses them of being motivated by personal ambitions.
The Vox crisis also affects the governability of the Balearic Islands since the Balearic president Marga Prohens depends on this party to govern. The PP achieved 25 deputies and the absolute majority is 30, so the mutinous deputies could be key to guaranteeing the stability of Prohens. The Balearic Islands are the only community in which Vox is not part of the regional government. The reason for this absence is that the national leadership of the party already feared that the deputies could rebel, as has finally happened, and that is why they prevented them from having executive power at all costs.
