The president of the Madrid Assembly, Enrique Ossorio, has decided that the Regional Parliament Bureau, where the PP has an absolute majority, will conduct the investigation that must determine whether the Vox spokesperson, Rocío Monasterio, voted from two different seats in the plenary session. from February 1st. This is indicated by documentation accessed by EL PAÍS in which the former regional vice president makes a detailed analysis of what happened and determines that the matter does not end up in the commission on the statute of deputies, where an instructor for the case would have been appointed. which would foreseeably have delayed the investigation times. In this way, Ossorio accelerates towards the foreseeable sanction from Monasterio, who faces a suspension of up to 30 days as a deputy, to which could be added the loss of salary and the proportional part of the subsidy from the Vox parliamentary group.
“From the investigations carried out, the following facts can be stated,” begins Ossorio's writing about the February 1 session. “The one that had been the seat of Mr. Ruiz Bartolomé [dimitido días antes] It was vacant. (…) Mr. Henríquez de Luna [diputado de Vox] “He occupied said seat during part of the session, having pressed at the beginning of the session the presence button in the seat that did not correspond to him,” it continues. “(…) Before voting began, I informed the plenary session,” he recalls. “Warned by the Chamber services, when recording the minutes of the plenary session, that there seemed to be an error in the first vote, I requested that the facts be clarified,” he continues. And he concludes: “In the images recorded by the Chamber services, it seems to be seen that the illustrious Mrs. Monasterio San Martín could have voted not only in her seat, but also in the vacant seat.”
The letter from the president of the Chamber ends by leaving it in the hands of the Board to “initiate, process and resolve the corresponding sanctioning procedure if it deems it appropriate.” But that is a purely aesthetic consideration. The PP has an absolute majority in the body, and considers that the case should be opened and sanctioned. At the same time, Ossorio advocates that a guarantee procedure be followed to the maximum, which will include the request for explanations from the person under investigation, and the possibility for her to present as many allegations as she deems appropriate. Consequently, it is foreseeable that the Board will accept its jurisdiction in the matter this Friday, which will speed up the procedure.
“It is an abbreviated procedure,” describes a parliamentary source familiar with the internal debates of Parliament, where it is considered that having referred the case to the commission on the statute of deputies would only have entrenched the problem, since the decision would have lengthened the resolution times. with the convocation and meeting of that body; the election of an instructor, who should study the subject and seek advice from the legal services of the Assembly; and finally draft a proposed resolution, which should have been submitted to the Bureau.
Everything happened like this. On January 25, José Luis Ruiz Bartolomé, Monasterio's right-hand man in the chamber, left his seat to return to private activity. On the 31st, 24 hours before the next plenary session, Pablo Gutiérrez de Cabiedes resigned from taking his seat, which corresponded to him because he was next on the electoral list. In this way, Vox arrived at the chamber with fewer deputies present than it has elected.
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That February 1, the videos of the session reflect how Monasterio pressed the button for his seat, and that of the continuous one, empty after the resignation of Ruiz Bartolomé, supposedly to vote at least on one occasion. Thus, Vox added more votes than deputies present in the plenary session. An irregularity that Parliament has investigated since then, with the never hidden intention of punishing it.
“These are technological things,” justified Monasterio, who assured that he did not try to vote twice, but rather to turn off Ruiz Bartolome's seat; and that he is the victim of a political hunt orchestrated by the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. “It is impossible to vote on behalf of a deputy who was already discharged, he did not even have the sign on the seat, it is all absurd,” the Vox leader has argued. There is, at least, a precedent for sanctions for a similar case, although not the same: the Constitutional Court has already endorsed the Basque Parliament's punishment of Carlos Iturgaiz (PP) for dismissing a deputy in a session in which he was not present. .
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