Congress of Deputies | |
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15th Congress of Deputies | |
Type | |
Type | |
History | |
Founded | 1834 |
Leadership | |
Structure | |
Seats | 350 |
Political groups | Government (147)
Supported by (32) Opposition (171) |
Elections | |
Party-list proportional representation, D'Hondt method | |
Last election | 23 July 2023 |
Meeting place | |
Palacio de las Cortes Madrid, Community of Madrid Kingdom of Spain | |
Website | |
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Rules | |
Standing Orders of the Congress of Deputies (English) |
The Congress of Deputies (Spanish: Congreso de los Diputados) is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch, the upper house being the Senate. The Congress meets in the Palace of the Parliament (Palacio de las Cortes) in Madrid.
Congress has 350 members elected from fifty-two constituencies (the fifty provinces and two autonomous cities) using closed list D'Hondt proportional representation. Deputies serve four-year terms. The presiding officer and speaker is the President of the Congress of Deputies, who is elected by the members at the first sitting of Congress after an election.
In the Congress, MPs from the political parties, or groups of parties, form 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 votes in the constituencies in which they ran. The deputies belonging to parties who cannot create their own parliamentary group form the Mixed Group.[1]
After the 2019 general election in April, the number of female deputies was up to 168 representing 48% of all members, making Spain the European country with the highest percentage of women in parliament, surpassing Sweden and Finland.[2]
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