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Vox explodes in the Region of Murcia, its first electoral stronghold. Three of the party's four deputies in the Regional Assembly have been suspended from membership by the training guarantees committee. Including your spokesperson. They are responsible for having unilaterally decided to dismiss four workers and for having seized control of the accounts.

This is the spokesman for the parliamentary group, Juan José Liarte , the first secretary of the Regional Assembly, Francisco Carrera , and Mabel Campuzano . The guarantee committee has opened a sanctioning file for them and has provisionally suspended them from militancy and from political, organic and institutional representation, party sources report.

The measure places the continuity of the parliamentary group in a very compromised situation, given that it could be the case that only one of its current members remained under the discipline of Santiago Abascal.

This internal crisis would not have to affect the stability of the Murcian government, which leads the PP in coalition with Ciudadanos, since they only need one of Vox's four seats to tie the absolute majority in parliamentary votes.

The Murcian crisis

The Region of Murcia is Vox's main political fief. The formation gave the bell in the general elections of November 2019 when it rose as the most voted force and unseated the PP with 28% of the votes.

It was the only autonomous community where he won. However, this strong support has not subsequently translated into organic stability. The problems caused long ago that the party is directed at provincial level by a manager. Now the crisis is hitting the parliamentary group squarely in the Regional Assembly.

The Vox national leadership confirms the precautionary measures against the three deputies, but avoids explaining the specific causes of them for being, explain the sources consulted, a matter that is still to be resolved in the guarantees committee and pending the appeal of those involved.

However, sources from Vox in Murcia assure Efe that the disciplinary measure comes after the deputies dismissed four employees and exclusively assumed control of the accounts, where the parliamentary group receives the corresponding subsidies for its operation.

Precautionary measures and sanctions

The files have a period of 10 days to present allegations, but the precautionary measures are already effective, so that none of them could serve as a representative of Vox while this process lasts. For example, Liarte is a member of the manager, although she does not head it.

If the sanctions go further, the deputies involved could find themselves in the position of having to decide whether to resign their seats or to continue, which would dissolve the Vox parliamentary group in practice, with only one member remaining.

In any case, as already recalled, the parliamentary majority for the Murcian government depends on a single vote and not on all four.

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