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The new Parliament elects its presidency this Monday without clear majorities

The new Parliament of Catalonia, which came out of the polls on May 12, is holding its constitutive session this Monday, in which the presidency, two vice-presidencies and four secretaries of the chamber will have to be elected, votes still without clear majorities.

Of the 135 deputies of the new Parliament – the absolute majority is 68 seats – 42 are from the PSC, 35 from Junts, 20 from ERC, 15 from the PP, 11 from Vox, 6 from Comuns Sumar, 4 from the CUP and 2 from Catalan Alliance.

The plenary session for the constitution of the Parliament of the XV legislature will begin at 4:00 p.m. without, for now, it being seen in the hands of which party the presidency of the chamber or the rest of the positions of the Table will fall. It is not even clear how many votes it will be possible to count, after the Constitutional Court upheld the appeal filed by the PSC-Units group against the agreements of the last Parliament Table that allowed the telematic vote of former Minister Lluís Puig from the foreign. This may affect the constituent session of the new Parliament, in which an Age Table – headed by Agustí Colomines (JxCat), the oldest, together with Júlia Calvet (Vox) and Mar Besses (ERC) – must decide whether to disobey the TC and allows the three deputies who remain outside Spain to vote: Carles Puigdemont and Lluís Puig (JxCat) and Ruben Wagensberg (ERC), who is on medical leave.

In the first vote – through ballots deposited in a ballot box – with the name of a deputy – the presidency of the Catalan chamber will have to be elected, a key position because it will be the one who will propose a candidate for the investiture of the next president of the Generalitat. The candidate to preside over the Parliament needs an absolute majority in the first vote; In the second round, the candidate who obtains the most support among the two with the most votes initially is chosen.

If each of the eight parties with representation votes for one of their own deputies, the most voted will be a name from the PSC—winner of the Catalan elections—but if there is an agreement between Junts and ERC, the presidency will fall to an independence deputy, which which would open the door for the first candidate proposed for the investiture to be not the socialist Salvador Illa, but Carles Puigdemont.

Once the constitution plenary session has ended, a period of 10 business days will be activated in which the new presidency of the Parliament will open a round of consultations with the parliamentary leaders and propose a candidate for an investiture that would be held on June 25 at the latest. (Efe)