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1896 Spanish General Election
The 1896 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 12 April (for the Congress of Deputies) and on Sunday, 26 April 1896 (for the Senate of Spain, Senate), to elect the 7th Cortes Generales#Restoration (1874–1930), Cortes of the Restoration (Spain), Kingdom of Spain in the Restoration period. All 445 seats in the Congress of Deputies (plus two special districts) were up for election, as well as 180 of 360 seats in the Senate. The previous Liberal Party (Spain, 1880), Liberal government of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta had resigned in March 1895, following the outbreak of Cuban War of Independence, revolution in Cuba and a period dominated by social conflict and First Melillan campaign, war in Morocco. Antonio Cánovas del Castillo of the Conservative Party (Spain), Conservative Party was tasked to form a new government, but the general election was delayed by over a year until their feasibility in Cuba could be ensured. The election resulted in a large majority for the Conservatives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congress Of Deputies
The Congress of Deputies ( es, link=no, Congreso de los Diputados, italic=unset) is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch. The Congress meets in the Palacio de las Cortes, Madrid, Palace of the Parliament () in Madrid. It has 350 members elected by constituency, constituencies (matching fifty Provinces of Spain, Spanish provinces and two Autonomous cities of Spain, autonomous cities) by closed list proportional representation using the D'Hondt method. Deputies serve four-year terms. The presiding officer is the President of the Congress of Deputies, who is elected by the members thereof. It is the analogue to a speaker. In the Congress, MPs from the List of political parties in Spain, political parties, or groups of parties, form Parliamentary group (Spain), parliamentary groups. Groups must be formed by at least 15 deputies, but a group can also be formed with only five deputies if the parties got at least 5% of the nationwide vote, or 15% of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
