The Cortes Generales will have a new joint and permanent parliamentary committee that will deal with issues affecting the Balearic and Canary Islands, thus joining the other seven joint committees that were established this Tuesday for the XV Legislature.
The Bureau of Congress has qualified and admitted for processing the request of the parliamentary groups of the PP, PSOE, and Sumar for the creation of the Joint Committee on Insularity, which will debate specific issues of the two Spanish archipelagos and must have the approval of the Congress plenary.
Parliamentary sources have indicated to EFE that the creation of this new body could be approved in the plenary session next week, and presumably with a large majority of votes, although with the opposition of Vox, which has reiterated its opposition to creating new bodies in the Cortes that increase unnecessary expenses.
Vox sources have recalled that there is already a legislative committee on Territorial Policy that should also include island issues.
The new Joint Committee on Insularity comes precisely when the new legislature is presided over by the former president of the Balearic Islands, Francina Armengol, who has valued the initiative agreed upon by all members of the Bureau; PP, PSOE, and Sumar.
On the other hand, the Congress has constituted this Tuesday the seven joint committees that are usually created in each legislature.
After negotiations between the PP and the PSOE regarding the presidencies of these committees, the socialists lead the Court of Accounts (Juan Francisco Serrano) and their coalition partner Sumar, the Coordination and Monitoring for the Sustainable Development Goals (Engracia Rivera), while the PP chairs five committees.
The populars are at the head of the National Security Commission (Ana Pastor), the joint commission on Relations with the Ombudsman (Luis María Beamonte), the Parliamentary Control of the RTVE Corporation (Antonio Silván), the Commission for the Study of the problems of addictions (Pablo Hispán) and the Joint Commission for the EU, which Armengol has delegated to the popular deputy José Conde López.