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The sovereigntists motu proprio excluded Junqueras, whose seat – empty – is in the Mixed Group. In response to questions from Business Insider Spain , official spokespersons for the Republican Parliamentary Group in Congress have confirmed that maintaining the global count of seats in Congress at 350 represents a disadvantage because Junqueras "cannot exercise his political rights." At the same time, they have pointed out that "he is an elected MEP", which changes the position of ERC with respect to the other representation of the Catalan independence movement, Junts - of seven deputies, three have been suspended and are in the Mixed Group.
This Wednesday, ERC has presented a brief to the Supreme Court that settles the sovereignty case so that Junqueras can go to collect his MEP certificate. If allowed, Junqueras would become a parliamentarian in the European Parliament, so his position in Congress would be on the list and another ERC representative would be a deputy. "We will be SW Business Directory there until the end. We are going to see what the Supreme Court decides, because we support it in the same way as when it was requested at the time so that it could come to Congress," they have pointed out from the ERC Parliamentary Group. The countdown to the investiture begins With the balance of forces in Congress intact and with the exception that the suspended deputies will not be able to exercise their functions in the Cortes, the procedure for investing a new Government remains intact.This Wednesday the round of meetings with the head of state, King Felipe VI, began.
At this time, the deputy of the Cantabrian Regionalist Party José María Mazón, the Compromís parliamentarian Joan Baldoví, Juantxo López de Uralde of EQUO—Unidas Podemos—, Javier Esparza of Navarra Suma, Ana María Oramas of the Canary Coalition, spoke with the monarch. and Yolanda Díez from Unidas Podemos. While Navarra Suma has opened the door to supporting Sánchez's investiture to avoid the influence of the pro-independence forces in the next executive, deputy Ana Oramas has been specific in ensuring that the Canarian Coalition will not support the socialists in the event that Unidas Podemos do it too. Right now, the non-nationalist forces that could support Sánchez total 171 seats, very far from the majority of 176.