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Board Of Spokespersons
The Board of Spokespersons (, is a parliamentary body of each house of the Cortes Generales and is a council of party representatives mainly entrusted with the task of advising the Bureaus of the Cortes Generales , Bureau on the agenda of the Parliament. The Board also decides on the composition of parliamentary committees. Each House (the Senate of Spain, Senate and the Congress of Deputies) possesses its own Board of Spokespersons made up by the Speaker of the House and the Spokespersons of every Parliamentary group (Spain), parliamentary group. Each Board meets every week during the session of Parliament. Members Chairperson The Chairperson of the Board of Spokespersons is the Speaker of the respective House. Spokesperson The spokesperson of each parliamentary group is a full member of the Board of Spokespersons. A parliamentary group's spokesperson is the Whip (politics), whip and act's upon orders of the leader of the political party (who is also president of the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cortes Generales
The (; ) are the Bicameralism, bicameral legislative chambers of Spain, consisting of the Congress of Deputies (the lower house) and the Senate of Spain, Senate (the upper house). The Congress of Deputies meets in the Palacio de las Cortes, Madrid, Palacio de las Cortes. The Senate meets in the Palacio del Senado. Both are in Madrid. The Cortes are elected through universal, free, equal, direct and secret suffrage, with the exception of some senatorial seats, which are elected indirectly by the legislatures of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous communities. The are composed of 615 members: 350 Deputies and 265 Senators. The members of the serve four-year terms, and they are representatives of the Spanish people. In both chambers, the seats are divided by constituencies that correspond with the Provinces of Spain, fifty provinces of Spain, plus Ceuta and Melilla. However, each island or group of islands within the Canary Islands, Canary and Balearic Islands, Bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mirella Cortès Gès
Mirella Cortès Gès (Sallent de Llobregat, 17 August 1958) is a Spanish politician. A member of Republican Left of Catalonia she was mayor of Sallent de Llobregat between 2003 and 2007, and since 2016 she has been a senator in the 11th and 12th Cortes Generales. Career In the Spanish municipal elections of 2003 she was elected mayor of Sallent de Llobregat through a coalition of Esquerra Republicana with two other political forces. This pact was not achieved again for subsequent elections and after the Spanish municipal elections of 2007 and 2011 she was a councilor in the opposition. Shortly thereafter she was appointed secretary of Municipal Policy of ERC in Bages. In the 2015 general elections she was in sixth place on the ERC list for the province of Barcelona, and was not elected. However, in January 2016 she was proposed as a senator appointed by the Parliament of Catalonia in the 11th Cortes Generales. In the Senate she is spokesperson for the ERC. She was reelected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Meritxell Batet
Meritxell Batet Lamaña (; born 19 March 1973) is a Spanish jurist, politician, and member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), who served as President of the Congress of Deputies from 2019 to 2023. Prior to this, she served as Minister for Territorial Policy and Civil Service of the Government of Spain between June 2018 and May 2019. A lecturer of Constitutional Law at Pompeu Fabra University, she has been a member of the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the 8th through 14th terms of the lower house. Early years and academic career Batet studied at the Gravi School in Barcelona and entered the university with the support of scholarships. In 1995 she graduated in Law from the Pompeu Fabra University where she also took doctorate courses, and presented her thesis ''Participation, deliberation and transparency in the institutions and bodies of the European Union''. In 1998 she completed a postgraduate course in real estate and urban development law at IDEC. In 2013 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Political Parties In Spain
This article serves as a list of the political parties in Spain. Spain has a multi-party system at both the national and regional level, the major parties nationwide being the People's Party (PP) and the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). Spain was formerly considered to have a two-party system dominated by the PSOE and the PP; however, the current makeup has no formation or coalition with enough seats to claim a parliamentary majority in the bicameral Cortes Generales (consisting of both the national Congress of Deputies and regional representation in the Senate). Regional parties can be strong in autonomous communities, notably Catalonia and the Basque Country, and are often essential for national government coalitions. Political parties with parliamentary representation Represented in Cortes Generales Represented in regional parliaments Represented in the European Parliament only Se Acabó La Fiesta was founded right before the 2024 European Parliament e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Escudo Del Congreso De España
The escudo ( Portuguese: 'shield') is a unit of currency which is used in Cape Verde, and which has been used by Portugal, Spain and their colonies. The original coin was worth 16 silver . The Cape Verdean escudo is, and the Portuguese escudo was, subdivided into 100 . Its symbol is the , a letter S with two vertical bars superimposed used between the units and the subdivision (for example, ). In Spain and its colonies, the '' escudo'' refers to a gold coin worth sixteen '' reales de plata'' or forty ''reales de vellón''. Currencies named "escudo" Circulating * Cape Verdean escudo Obsolete *Angolan escudo *Chilean escudo * French écu *Mozambican escudo * Portuguese escudo *Portuguese Guinean escudo *Portuguese Indian escudo *Portuguese Timorese escudo *São Tomé and Príncipe escudo *Spanish escudo The escudo was either of two distinct Spanish currency denominations. Gold escudo The first escudo was a gold coin introduced in 1535/1537, with coins denominated in e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vice President Of The Congress Of Deputies
The president of the Congress of Deputies () is the speaker of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Cortes Generales (the Spanish parliament). The president is elected among the members of the Congress and is, after the king and the prime minister, the highest authority in the Kingdom of Spain. Although the president (or speaker) shares the representation of the Cortes Generales with the president of the Senate, the constitutional functions that are granted to the office in terms of royal countersigning and the election process of the Prime Minister, makes the president of the Congress the '' de facto'' leader of the legislative branch. This position is also reinforced by the asymmetric bicameralism that gives greater prominence to the lower house. The current office was established by the Spanish Constitution of 1978, however, the position has a tradition of more than 200 years, since its creation in 1810 as President of the Cortes of Cádiz. The current Speake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Francisco José Alcaraz
Francisco José Alcaraz Martos (born 1 November 1968) is a Spanish politician, member of the Vox party, and activist. He's served as president and spokesman for the Asociación de Víctimas del Terrorismo (AVT, "Association of Victims of Terrorism") between 2004 and 2008. He is also the founder and president of the association Voces contra el Terrorismo (VcT, "Voices Against Terrorism"). Career Francisco José Alcaraz was a Hairdresser by profession. When he was 19 years old (on 11 December 1987) his brother and two three-year-old nieces were killed by the explosion of an ETA car bomb placed in the barracks of the Civil Guard in Zaragoza. Before joining the AVT, he did it to the Asociación de Víctimas del Terrorismo "Esperanza Verde" ("Association of Victims of Terrorism 'Green Hope'"). Later he joined the AVT, where he held various positions until reaching the position of president. He was one of the leading promoters of the conspiracy theories vis-à-vis the authorship of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nerea Ahedo Ceza
Nerea Ahedo Ceza (born March 31, 1966) is a Spanish politician who is a member of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV). She was born in Bilbao, and has been a senator for Biscay, Vizcaya since December 20, 2015, in the eleventh and twelfth legislatures. References Basque women in politics 1966 births Living people Politicians from Bilbao Basque Nationalist Party politicians Members of the 11th Senate of Spain Members of the 12th Senate of Spain Members of the 13th Senate of Spain Members of the 14th Senate of Spain Members of the 15th Senate of Spain {{BasqueCountry-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
José Manuel Barreiro Fernández
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Carles Mulet Garcia
Carles Mulet Garcia (born 19 April 1975 in Castellón de la Plana) is a Spanish politician and senator. He is a senator by appointment in the Senate of Spain representing the Valencian Parliament of Coalició Compromís. He was appointed into the Senate of Spain by the Valencian Parliament on 23 July 2015. During the plenary session of the Senate on 13 April 2016, he became the first senator to speak in the Leonese language in a plenary session of the Senate of Spain The Senate () is the upper house of the , which along with the Congress of Deputies – the lower chamber – comprises the Parliament of the Kingdom of Spain. The Senate meets in the Palace of the Senate in Madrid. The presiding officer of the .... References Living people 1975 births Members of the 12th Senate of Spain Members of the 13th Senate of Spain Members of the 14th Senate of Spain [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Partido Nacionalista Vasco
The Basque Nationalist Party ( , EAJ; , PNV; , PNB; EAJ-PNV), officially the Basque National Party in English, is a Basque nationalism, Basque nationalist and Regionalism (politics), regionalist List of political parties in the Basque Country, political party. The party is located in the centrism, centre of the political spectrum. It has been described as Christian democracy, Christian democratic, with Social democracy, social democratic and conservative-liberal factions. The EAJ-PNV was founded by Sabino Arana in 1895, which makes it the second oldest extant political party in Spain, after the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). The EAJ-PNV is the largest Basque nationalist party, having led the Basque Government uninterruptedly since 1979, except for a brief period between 2009 and 2012. In Navarre, it is part of the coalition Geroa Bai, which is currently a junior partner of the PSOE in the Navarrese regional government. In Spain at large, the party has been supporting cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
