• Mixed Group: Regionalist parties promote their own group in Congress to strengthen their voice
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The regionalist parties consummate their intentions and request to form their own parliamentary group in the Congress of Deputies with which to make their voices heard. Teruel There, the Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC), Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN) and Canary Coalition propose to be called Plural Spain and, once they can be constituted, could also accommodate Nueva Canarias and Foro Asturias . In total, seven deputies.

José María Mazón , of the PRC, would be the spokesperson for the group and Tomás Guitarte , of Teruel Existe, as deputy spokesperson, as Efe has advanced.

The operation is primarily intended to get rid of a crowded Mixed Group, which with 10 parties and 21 deputies is virtually inoperative and condemns them to invisibility. So they have devised this instrumental formula in which there are parties of both left and right, as published last week EL MUNDO, when on the table was to adopt the name of the Regions of Spain.

Now, the formalization of your intentions needs the complicity of the PSOE so that it can prosper. Since the Bureau of Congress is the body that will make the decision. For this reason, in the last hours, parties such as Teruel Existe have redoubled their pressure on the Socialists to be flexible and exhibit "political will" to unleash a situation that, otherwise, could lead them to speak only 20-30 seconds in the debates .

The idea of ​​these parties is to use one of the ways contemplated in the Regulation: five deputies whose formations have exceeded 15% of the votes in the constituencies in which they have been presented. The problem here is that Coalición Canaria had more than that percentage in Santa Cruz de Tenerife but not in Las Palmas , where it did not reach 10%. You want to avoid that requirement by temporarily leaving out the deputy for that district, which is from Nueva Canarias, and incorporate it later, once the group exists.

Also, UPN was in a coalition called Navarra Suma, with PP and Cs. What could collide with the rules for not having competed electorally with popular and oranges .

This is where minority parties claim the PSOE and the rest of the Bureau to show "political will" and be generous. In its favor is that both the PP and the PSOE - who together have a majority in the Bureau with five representatives - are electoral partners or pretend to be for the legislature, UPN as is the case of the popular , or all others, as It is the case of the Socialists.

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