• Hemeroteca.La Mesa del Congreso tombs the two groups proposed by the Mixed and gives an extension to resolve the mess

The soap opera that keeps the Mixed Group in suspense faces its outcome. After two failed attempts, there is already agreement between the parties involved to divide and create a new parliamentary group in Congress, which will be called Grupo Plural . This will allow them to get out of the traffic jam and the serious operational problems involved in dividing time and resources among 10 different parties, with 21 deputies in total.

The solution that has been found to alleviate the most crowded Mixed Group in history has gone through a pact between Junts per Catalunya (eight deputies), Más País (dos), Compromís (one), Canary Coalition (one), Nueva Canarias ( one), PRC (one), Teruel Existe (one) and BNG (one), parliamentary sources report. Laura Borràs (JxCat) would be the spokeswoman and Néstor Rego (BNG), the deputy spokesman.

It is an agreement that underlines that it is done "with operational and non-ideological criteria" to force a division and prevent the forces with a seat from being sentenced to interventions of 20 or 30 seconds in the debates

These parties add 16 deputies and can appeal to the route of the Regulation that allows the configuration of a parliamentary group when they exceed 15 seats. A lace that you already know, through informal contacts with the PSOE, that you will not have any problem to be approved on Monday by the Bureau of Congress.

This would momentarily leave 16 deputies in the Plural Group and five in the Mixed Group, where the CUP (two deputies), UPN (two) and Foro Asturias (one) would be. But the idea is that this is not going to look like this.

Who will leave?

The objective has always been to make a more equitable distribution between two different groups, so one or more parties will have to leave the Plural Group to re-enter the Mixed once the new parliamentary group is officially constituted. And so look for that balance.

The problem is that there is still no agreement on who or who will leave. All eyes go to JxCat because it is a party that has eight of the 16 deputies. But it is an issue that is in the air. The last chapter of the soap opera.

Several parties do not want to share a group with JxCat. For example, the Regionalist Party of Cantabria of Miguel Ángel Revilla has always had many qualms about temporarily accepting this instrumental pact. Although finally it has been pushed to endorse it by the needs.

"We will constitute the group only with operational and non-ideological criteria, therefore, it will function de facto as a mixed group, where each party is independent and has its own visibility," say sources from Más País, the Íñigo Errejón party, which affect that Only by favoring the division of the original Mixed Group into two balanced blocks, the rights of voters and the operation of parliamentary work are guaranteed.

Two failed attempts

The strong reluctance to agree with JxCat led several minority regionalist parties to join each other to try another way. PRC, Canary Coalition, UPN and Teruel Existe presented their own proposal to the Bureau of Congress, however, the body put down those claims for breaching the requirements.

The same happened to JxCat, Más País, Compromís and BNG when, in response to the regionalists, they promoted another group. They also encountered that they did not meet the minimum requirements set by the Regulation.

After receiving a controversial extension by the Bureau of Congress, minority parties have managed to reach an agreement on this occasion.

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