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Raising Profile, Spain's Far-right Vox Gets Seat on Parliament Oversight Body

Reuters

   MADRID - The far-right Vox party won a seat on the committee
   responsible for running Spain's parliament on Tuesday, raising its
   national profile as the Socialists struggled to form a government
   following an inconclusive national election last month.

   The Socialists, meanwhile, again held talks with a Catalan separatist
   party in a bid to gain support.

   Vox became the third-largest party in a fragmented parliament in the
   election, more than doubling its seats to 52 after campaigning on a
   platform of staunch nationalism and an anti-feminist and anti-immigrant
   stance.

   Amid some chaotic scenes and scuffles in the parliamentary chamber as
   the new legislature was sworn in, Vox lawmaker Ignacio Gil Lazaro was
   elected as one of the oversight committee's four vice presidents.

   The nine-strong committee decides when bills are admitted for debate
   and its members represent parliament overseas, giving it considerable
   influence.

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