Vox has registered this Tuesday a letter in which it asks the Table of the Congress of Deputies to suspend the formation of the parliamentary groups of Junts and ERC. The formation of Santiago Abascal considers that the loan of seats from the PSC and Sumar to the independentistas so that both forces could meet the requirements is a "fraud of law" and does not comply with the conditions established by the Regulations of the Lower House.
For this reason, the far-right party wants the Bureau to suspend the subsidy for both groups. Vox also asks the Bureau to consider null and void the compliance or promise of the pro-independence deputies on August 17. Vox's appeal is unlikely to succeed because it is addressed to the very Bureau that considered all parliamentary groups in Congress valid this Monday, including those of the pro-independence formations.
Junts formed its group with its seven deputies and another four borrowed from the PSC, two from Tarragona and two from Girona, while ERC added two deputies from Sumar, one from Girona and one from Tarragona to the seven it obtained in the 23-23 elections. J. The objective of these loans was for both formations to exceed the threshold established by the Congress Regulation of 15% of the vote in the constituencies where they have presented themselves, something that Junts did not achieve in Barcelona and Tarragona and ERC did not achieve in Barcelona and Girona either.
The chosen seat loan formula means that both formations exceed 15% on average in the set of four demarcations where they were presented, a system that has precedents in Congress but that Vox considers irregular. For this reason, the formation of Abascal asks the Board to suspend the formation of both groups and eliminate the subsidies they receive in this condition.
Vox, in the same way, considers the inauguration of the pro-independence deputies irregular and asks the Board to consider their oaths or promises on August 17, when Les Corts were constituted, null and void. Unlike what happened in the previous legislature, on this occasion Vox does not have the possibility of filing appeals before the Constitutional Court alone. It needed at least 52 deputies, and after the 23-J elections it only has 33.
