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Updated Wednesday, January 31, 2024-12:03

The first political shock after the earthquake unleashed by the internal revolt of Vox in the Balearic Islands has been temporarily stopped during the morning of this Wednesday. Or

at least it has been postponed

.

It has been thanks to the legal dam that the national leadership of Vox has wanted to raise to postpone the effect sought by the five deputies who have declared themselves in rebellion and whom the party leadership wants to expel.

Those five parliamentarians, who control the political group in the legislative chamber, expelled Gabriel Le Senne

, current president of the Parliament and second public authority of the Islands,

from their own group (until then made up of seven deputies) on Monday .

With this expulsion, the mutinous deputies sought as a first measure to depose Le Senne and, according to political sources, begin a process to replace him with one of their own, something for which they would need the eventual support of the PP, an external ally in the parliamentary arena since that the legislature started a little more than half a year ago.

Le Senne himself considered his departure the same

Monday

, when he was outraged and hopeless at the actions of his former teammates, whom he defined by saying that they "remind him of

Pedro Sánchez

," capable, he said in statements to EL MUNDO, to do anything for position and power.

However, yesterday the pace changed. Following instructions from the leadership of the party that has its headquarters on Madrid's

Bambú

Street , Le Senne announced that today he will ask the Regional Parliament Bureau to prepare a report that declares his expulsion from the group null and void, therefore ratifying him in the presidency.

The Table, following the composition of the Parliament after the regional elections of May 28 and the subsequent agreements to form it, is made up of four other members in addition to Le Senne.

Two of them from the PP and two from the PSOE.

At its meeting this Wednesday, the Parliament's governing body unanimously approved that two reports be commissioned from the chamber's lawyers to analyze the issues. Not only about the figure of Le Senne, but also about that of

Patricia de las Heras

, the other deputy purged from the group by the five Vox parliamentarians declared in rebellion by Bambú.

Until these reports are ready, where it is claimed that the expulsion be declared null and void as it did not contravene any internal party regulations, there will be no consequences for the presidency of the Parliament. At least any movement is postponed for a week, although there are no fixed deadlines.

The groups thus seek to ensure that any movement has legal security, although there continues to be growing political tension in the Islands, caused by the sudden internal outbreak of Vox, whose votes led to the investiture of

Marga Prohens

(PP) and have served until now to carry out the parliamentary initiatives of its Executive.