Podemos will receive more financial resources from Congress after abandoning Sumar and moving to the Mixed Group, but it will also have more commission spokespersons and will even be able to ask a question almost every week to the coalition government of which it is no longer a part.
Congress pays each parliamentary group two types of subsidy. On the one hand, a fixed amount per deputy, which is 1,746.16 euros per month per seat, something that the purple formation will continue to receive for its five seats, whether in Sumar or in the Mixed; In total there are 8,730.8 per month, that is, 104,769.6 per year.
And the other is 30,346.72 euros that the parliamentary group receives each month and which, in the case of groups of several parties, such as Sumar or Mixto, is distributed among the member formations.
In the plurinational group, which has 31 deputies, Podemos received 4,894.63 euros monthly for the weight of its five deputies (16% of the group), which would have meant 58,735 euros per year, but in the Mixed Group it is less. the parties with which to distribute and now the purple formation is the largest (represents 62.5% of the Mixed), so it will receive four times more monthly through this means: 18,966.7 euros per month (227,600.4 per year ).
On the opposite side, the finances of the BNG, CC and UPN will suffer a sharp drop, since until now the 30,346 euros per month were divided between three, receiving about 10,000 euros per head, and now they will drop to less than 4,000 euros per month.
But, in addition, Podemos will gain more prominence in the debates in the Plenary and in the commissions, since until now it depended on the approval of the Sumar leadership to participate, and it was already denied in the investitures and in the Plenary regarding the war between Israel and Hamas, and, on the other hand, in the Mixed Party they will have decision-making power as they are the majority party.
This implies that they will have a voice in almost all the committees and almost all the debates in the Plenary Hall, and that they will even be able to ask questions to the members of the coalition Government in the majority of control sessions. Within Sumar he would not be able to question the ministers, since the plurinational group was planning to resign since it is part of the Government itself.
