Santander (EFE) which will require dialogue and agreements as there is an executive, who will also be from the PP, in a minority.
The legislature will begin the eleventh legislature after the elections on May 28, which awarded 15 deputies to the PP -six more than in 2019-, eight to the PRC -six less-, eight to the PSOE -one more- and four to Vox – double-, while Ciudadanos (Cs) disappears.
The constitutive session, which will start at 5:00 p.m., will be chaired by the Senior Committee made up of the oldest deputy, Miguel Ángel Revilla (PRC), and the two youngest, the popular Miguel Ángel Vargas and Álvaro Aguirre.
In the session, the 35 deputies will take office -17 of them new-, of which 19 are men and 16 women.
Election of the President and the Bureau
After the Parliament is constituted, the members of the Bureau will be elected in three votes, formed by the president, two first and second vice-presidents, and two first and second secretaries.
The regional secretary of the PP, María José González Revuelta, will take over from Joaquín Gómez (PSOE) at the head of Parliament after having been second vice president of the institution in the last legislature.
Sources close to the negotiation have assured EFE that the PP, as the majority party in the Chamber, proposes that the Presidency and the First Vice Presidency fall to two popular ones and that the other Vice Presidency be for the PRC, which in the elections obtained the same deputies than the PSOE but with more votes.
The Socialists would occupy the first Secretariat and Vox the second, all this if the parties reached an agreement, which, if it did not occur, would lead to three votes in which the two most voted, PP and PRC, would share out the five positions (three and two, respectively).
This option is unlikely because the parties have been assuring that they want a plural table with representation of the four formations.
In the previous legislature, the Presidency of the Parliament of Cantabria corresponded to Joaquín Gómez (PSOE), while the PRC held two positions on the Board: the first vice president (Emilia Aguirre) and the first secretary (Ana Obregón).
The second vice-presidency was represented by María José González Revuelta (PP) and Diego Marañón, of Cs, was second secretary.
It will also be necessary to define who will replace the regionalist José Miguel Fernández Viadero as regional senator, although that election will have to wait.
Will there be changes in the spokespersons?
During the last legislature there were five spokespersons: Pedro Hernando (PRC), Íñigo Fernández (PP), Noelia Cobo (PSOE), Félix Álvarez (Cs) and Cristóbal Palacio, from Vox, in the mixed group.
All will be deputies again, except Félix Álvarez, who after not obtaining a seat on 28M announced his goodbye to politics.
According to parliamentary sources consulted by EFE, the Vox presidential candidate, Leticia Díaz, will take over from Cristóbal Palacio, while the rest of the parties wait to show their cards.
In the case of the PSOE, if Noelia Cobo is elected to Congress -she is number 2 on the list for Cantabria- and decides to go to Madrid, she would have to resign her seat and, therefore, she could not be spokesperson again.
The President of the Government, next step
The elected head of the Parliament of Cantabria will open a round of consultations with the parliamentary groups and will have twenty days to propose a candidate, who will surely be María José Sáenz de Buruaga, for the Presidency of the Government.
The investiture session will have to be set between the third and seventh day following said proposal.
The deadlines would place the first investiture session at the end of next week.
In the first vote, the candidate needs to obtain an absolute majority, which in principle is not going to happen because the PRC is going to abstain due to the agreement signed with the popular and neither PSOE nor Vox are going to vote in favor.
There will be a new vote after 48 hours in which Sáenz de Buruaga may be elected by simple majority.