The president of the Balearic Parliament of Vox on the crisis in his group: "It has been a spectacle and I apologize"

Eduardo Colom Palma

Palm

Updated Friday, February 9, 2024-11:40

One of the men loyal to

Santiago Abascal

in the Balearic Islands,

Gabriel Le Senne

, admits that Vox has staged a "spectacle" and an "spectacular" episode in the last two weeks with the staging of the breakup of its parliamentary group, suddenly dynamited by five wayward deputies.

These five parliamentarians expelled Le Senne himself and the president of the party in the Islands,

Patricia de las Heras

, both from the official wing of the party and loyal to the national leadership. Vox reacted in turn by initiating a process of expulsion of the dissidents.

Yesterday, Thursday, Vox issued a note announcing the reconciliation. Madrid paralyzed the expulsion of the wayward deputies and they readmitted the two expelled members to the parliamentary group, which will thus once again have seven members and will continue to support the PP, which has governed the island region alone since July 2023.

This public announcement to try to publicly settle the crisis occurred one day after the

lawyers of the Balearic Parliament

stopped the coup of the five rebels, paralyzing the departure of Le Senne from the parliamentary presidency. Something that he himself took for granted in the early stages of the crisis last week, going so far as to affirm that the position is "a burden."

This Friday morning, Le Senne came out publicly to confirm that he will continue as president and that he is willing to

"heal wounds"

and return to working side by side with his fellow members who rebelled just a few days ago.

"Resist"

He has admitted in this regard that it was Abascal's entourage that asked him not to leave office and "resist" while the legal battle was being settled within the Parliament.

The president of the Balearic legislative chamber, the second authority of the Islands in the institutional hierarchy, has assured that he closes the crisis with his colleagues in the parliamentary group without injuries, while he has recognized that the Parliament does not come out "reinforced" and has apologized to the citizens for the "show" offered.

This is how Le Senne expressed himself this morning in front of his official office.

"I am glad that in the end the blood did not reach the river,"

he said, trusting that he will be able to work "professionally" with his colleagues.

He has defended that requesting the legal reports was a success because it has allowed "this 'impasse' and a way out of this situation."

The counterparts

Le Senne has rejected that in the agreement reached there is a specific counterpart to satisfy the rebel deputies, beyond the commitment to "continue working together" to which the official statement alluded.

Furthermore, the president of the Parliament has stated that he is not aware that Idoia Ribas

, one of the deputies who has led the uprising against the leadership,

is going to be removed as spokesperson, nor any other organizational change within the parliamentary group.

At the same time, Le Senne has expressed that, logically, he does not share the accusations of partiality that his colleagues made in the expulsion report: "Another thing is that there are always specific complaints, when you agree with one or the other, you always agree. "the other party complains. I always try to do my best and act with equanimity in plenary sessions."

Likewise, the president of the Parliament has indicated that as a member of the provincial executive committee of Vox he will try to continue having a "good

personal relationship

with everyone" but has not commented on possible changes in the regional leadership. "I understand that we will have to talk and make the appropriate improvements, but not necessarily in the direction, we will see," was the only comment.

While the official statement reproached the press, accusing it of amplifying the crisis with "interested leaks" and "distorted information", Le Senne thanked journalists for their work during these two weeks. "I think the expulsion letters were serious and

deserved the repercussion

they have had," she declared.

For Le Senne, the crisis has been a "big controversy within the group, as happens in all parties and companies", only "on this occasion it has been so big that it has come to light", "in a way so spectacular". "But that's it, it's been solved and we hope it doesn't have any more consequences," he added.

Regulation reforms

Likewise, the president has now softened his support for the reform of the regulations proposed by the Més nationalists from the parliamentary opposition to combat transfuguism, which at the time he considered "very timely" and tried to accelerate. The reform would have allowed him to expel wayward deputies from the parliamentary group once they were expelled from Vox.

"We will have to study it

calmly

, it will also depend on the party's position in view of the new circumstances," he noted.

Along these lines, Le Senne has argued that the reform that was made in previous legislatures, on the occasion of the Xelo Huertas crisis and his expulsion from Podemos, "perhaps it was resolved by looking too closely at that particular case and the result has not been perfect ".