2023-08-25 02:41:02
One of the first “payments” for the “yes” of ERC and Junts to a future investiture of Pedro Sánchez will take place today with the transfer by the Socialists of four deputies to Carles Puigdemont’s party and two parliamentarians by Add to those of Gabriel Rufián in the Congress of Deputies. The interest in having their own group in the legislature is greatest due to the speaker (more minutes to speak in plenary), representation in the House Committees, having their own parliamentary spokesperson, the possibility of taking legislative initiatives to plenary session and being able to ask questions in the control sessions to the Government and to the money that the formation of the parliamentary group gives.
This morning all the groups will be formally registered and, despite the fact that neither Junts nor ERC meet the strict conditions to have their own, they will have this privilege. On 23J, the pro-independence parties did not reach 15 percent of the votes in Catalonia or 5% of those cast in the country as a whole, according to article 23 of the Regulations of Congress. Neither Junts nor ERC reach 15 percent in Barcelona, Girona and Tarragona. Now, with the four Socialist deputies and the two from Sumar, the percentage is completed. Deputies who, according to parliamentary sources, will return to their party of origin immediately, as soon as the parliamentary group is constituted.
However, the maneuver of the PSOE and Sumar, of which the Congress Table is expected to make a lax interpretation of the Regulations, will make it easier for each party to receive at least half a million euros a year in subsidies and salaries of spokespersons. attachments. (574,298.64 euros), according to the calculations of LA RAZÓN. Up to 4.5 million between the two (half each) if the legislature runs out of four years.
And it is that each parliamentary group receives a fixed subsidy of 30,346.72 euros per month for each parliamentary group and a variable subsidy depending on the number of deputies of each of them, which amounts to 1,746.16 euros per month for each public representative, according to the economic regime of deputies updated on June 6. ERC and Junts won seven seats on 23J.
The half million a year that they will receive is not only made up of the aforementioned monthly subsidies, but, as a parliamentary group, they will have a spokesperson and a deputy spokesperson. The designated spokesperson will charge 2,969.4 euros per month and the deputy, 2,318.98.
In addition, ERC and Junts now have the option to be presidents of commissions once they are constituted after the new Government is formed. Both have called for the setting up of a commission to investigate the case of spying on politicians and another on the actions of the CNI in the jihadist attacks on August 17, 2017 in Barcelona. Each commission president also receives an extra salary. Up to 1,590.37 euros for representation expenses. They may also appoint an adviser to help them in their task. He will also receive a salary for said work.
Lastly, another of the benefits of having a parliamentary group is having advisors. Assistance staff to support deputies in the “exercise of their function”. According to the economic regime of the deputies, they have one adviser per deputy. In the previous legislature, the Republicans had a ratio of 11.7 advisers, while Junts, which was part of the Plural Group together with Más País, Compromís and the BNG, had 10.8 to be divided among the four.
Had it not been for the transfer of the PSOE and Sumar, the independentistas would have remained in the mixed group. The subsidies, times, spokespersons and advisers, are distributed among all the groups that comprise it.
Regarding the 2019 elections, ERC is the party – of the independentistas – that has lost the most. They received 22,700.08 euros per month for their thirteen deputies, apart from the fixed amount of 30,000 euros. Now, for its seven deputies, they are left with 12,223.12 euros per month, in this concept. Junts also benefits from not having to share subsidies as in 2019 with the Plural Group.
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