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The Basque Parliament will subject Vox to a tight sanitary cordon by reducing the participation of its only representative to a third of the statutory times. The PNV, the Socialist Party of Euskadi, EH Bildu and Podemos will approve this Thursday the presence of Amaia Martínez , the only Basque parliamentarian from Santiago Abascal's party, drastically reducing the number of proposals that can be defended from the platform of the Basque Chamber.

The Basque Parliament will thus launch a new distribution of times, initiatives and advisers aimed at penalizing the presence of Vox. The agreement signed by all parties, with the exception of the PP and Citizens and, logically, of Vox, incorporates for the first time in the 40-year history of the Basque Parliament a discriminatory criterion towards the Mixed Group compared to that used for the rest of the groups.

Vox achieved a parliamentarian for Álava and the immediate precedent until today was the presence of Gorka Maneiro as the representative of UPyD and the only member of the Mixed Group in the legislature from 2012 to 2016.

Then, Maneiro had the same conditions both in the duration of the intervention times and in the number of proposals and control questions to the Basque Government. In addition, he had three advisers and became one of the most incisive parliamentarians with the first cabinet of Iñigo Urkullu.

Limit of proposals and replies

The acting lehendakari told EL MUNDO that he would not establish a sanitary cordon with Vox in the event that Santiago Abascal's party achieved representation in the Basque Chamber, but the agreement promoted by the PNV specifically determines that "the time of intervention in all the debates will be a third of the one foreseen for the rest of groups ".

A criterion that will be voted on and approved by the Board of Spokespersons and will limit Martínez's participation both in defending his proposals and in replying to the initiatives of the rest of the Basque parties.

Basque parliamentary groups can register two initiatives in each of the ordinary plenary sessions that are held every 15 days, but in the case of Vox, it will only be able to present one every three ordinary plenary sessions. When Maneiro was a member of the Mixed Group, he had the same capacity as the rest of the parties to present his parliamentary initiatives.

Martínez will also see the parliamentary function of controlling the activity of the Basque Government restricted to a third party. According to the agreement reached by the four proposing groups, Vox will only be able to register one interpellation and four questions every three control sessions.

The other parties

The rest of the parliamentary groups have the possibility of defending an interpellation and four oral questions to members of the Basque Executive in each of the plenary sessions.

The reduction of the parliamentary presence of Vox through a political agreement is also transferred to the field of support staff to its only representative. Amaia Martínez will have a single advisor paid for by the Basque Chamber, while the PNV, with 31 parliamentarians, will have up to 19 contracts for assistants and trusted personnel.

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