Are Spanish Parliament for the second time this year – Venezolana de Television

Caracas, July 19, 2016.- The Spanish Cortes will consist Tuesday for the second time this year in sessions where elect the nine board members of Congress, the highest body of the institution in which 350 deputies elected last June 26 shall swear or their charge.

in Congress, the constituent session is chaired by the deputy elected older, in this case the deputy of Popular party in Madrid, Maria Teresa Lara, who is assisted as secretaries for the two younger.

it is exactly the same of Elders who led the constituent session of the XI Legislature last month January is the first time this body, which only works on the day of the constitution of Congress, repeated composition.

After the constitution of the bureaux of age in both organs proceed to the election of organs government in both chambers: the Bureau by secret balloting and ballot box. The president will be elected in both cases obtaining the votes of the absolute majority and if no one succeeds in the first ballot shall be repeated between the two with the most votes, that is already required only a simple majority. In addition to the presidents are elected four vice presidents in Congress and two in the Senate and four secretaries both in Congress and the Senate.

After constitute these organs, the presidents request of other senators and deputies the oath or pledge to abide by the Constitution. Then the officers meet to formalize the creation of the parliamentary groups in the next five days.

The Podemos party announced it will support Patxi Lopez, candidate of the Spanish Socialist Party as president of Congress, if it the second round, in tanto.el Popular Party of Mariano Rajoy, current chairman of the Government and Citizens reached an agreement to support the current Minister of Development, Ana Pastor.

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in the second round of the elections, held on June 26, the PP were won by getting 137 of the 350 seats Congress, but they are not enough to govern, so it needs the support of other groups. For this, the popular leader gave the leaders of the other parties a government proposal “moderate and open to dialogue and agreements” so you can start the legislature.

For Rajoy, which urges Spain is that there is a government that can govern, since it would be “nonsense” that the country is doomed to see a third election. So far, Rajoy has not reaped the PSOE, with 85 seats in the House, and the abstention of the 32 deputies of the Citizen, of liberal tendency. The leftist coalition Unidos Podemos rejects with 71 seats.

With the opposition Socialist Party and Podemos, and the abstention of Citizens, only with the support of the PP, the investiture of Rajoy no friends yet with enough votes to be re-elected as Prime Minister.

/ MT