SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Board of the Canary Islands Parliament has agreed that Deputy Vidina Espino will continue as spokesperson for the Mixed Group in the next session, as she had requested to the governing body of the Autonomous Chamber and thus complying with what is established in the third section of Article 26 of the Parliament’s Rules of Procedure, although a rotating shift with Ricardo Fernández (Cs) is included.
Espino informs in a note that given the attitude adopted by the deputy Ricardo Fernández de la Puente (Cs) to break the existing agreement “in relation to the appointment of who will hold the spokesperson of the Mixed Parliamentary Group”, the Mesa de la Chamber, taking advantage of the provisions of the Regulation, has decided “to apply a rotating criterion, in alphabetical order of surname for each session.”
Based on this criterion, Espino will perform this function “during the periods of sessions that span from February to July 2022 and February 2023 until the end of the tenth legislature,” while Deputy Fernández de la Puente will do so as September to December 2022.
Since the beginning of this Legislature, “thanks to an agreement signed on October 1, 2019 and for the entire legislature, by the two members of the Mixed Group”, the spokesperson for the same has been exercised by Vidina Espino, however, from October 2021 “and unilaterally”, Deputy Fernández de la Puente considers said agreement broken and “asks to hold said position and choose the period of sessions, according to his criteria, an aspect that the Board of the Chamber has rejected for skipping the Regulation, “says Espino.
In his request to the Chamber Board, Fernández de la Puente denies, on the one hand, the existence of the agreement signed in October 2019, which “does not conform to the truth”, as evidenced by the documentation in power of the governing body of the Legislative and on the other, links the non-existence of the agreement to the departure of Vidina Espino from the party to which she has belonged until July 13, 2021, a circumstance that “does not affect the agreements reached internally the members of the Mixed Group “, according to the Regulation of Parliament.
As with the opinion of the Advisory Council, which ruled out his expulsion from the Mixed Group, also following the Chamber’s Regulations, on this occasion the same regulations have once again protected Espino’s rights.
Thus, it indicates that this agreement of the Table represents a “boost” to its commitment to carry out “rigorous and tenacious work in Parliament, defending the interests of all Canaries.”
