The politics of Spain takes place under the framework established by the Constitution of 1978. Spain is established as a social and democratic sovereign country wherein the national sovereignty is vested in the people,from which the powers of the state emanate.
The Senate is the upper house of the Cortes Generales,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.
Christian Poncelet was a conservative French politician. A member of President Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP),he was President of the Senate from 1998 to 2008. In addition to being a Senator,he was Mayor of Remiremont (Vosges) and has been the President of the General Council of Vosges.
There are four types of elections in Spain:general elections,elections to the legislatures of the autonomous communities,local elections and elections to the European Parliament. General elections and elections to the legislatures of the autonomous communities are called after the mandate of the national or regional legislature expires,usually four years after the last election,although early elections may occur. Elections to local councils and to the European Parliament are held on fixed dates but some local government bodies are not directly elected. For most elections party list PR is used,but the plurality system is used for the Senate.
Euskadiko Ezkerra was a Basque socialist political organisation. It was founded as a coalition of Euskal Iraultzarako Alderdia and other Basque Marxist forces in 1977 to present lists for the Spanish general elections in the constituencies of Vizcaya,Guipúzcoa and Álava,while Navarrese Left Union (UNAI),an allied coalition,was to present a list in the constituency of Navarre.
Francisco Javier "Patxi" López Álvarez is a Spanish socialist politician serving as Member of the Congress of Deputies and chair of the Constitutional Committee.
Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde,is a Peruvian lawyer and politician belonging to the Popular Action and a former Congressman representing Lima between 2006 and 2019. He was president of the Popular Action from 2004 to 2009.
Álava is one of the 52 constituencies represented in the Congress of Deputies,the lower chamber of the Spanish parliament,the Cortes Generales. The constituency currently elects four deputies. Its boundaries correspond to those of the Spanish province of Álava. The electoral system uses the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation,with a minimum threshold of three percent.
Antonio "Tony" J. Fas Alzamora is a Puerto Rican politician and Senator. As of 31 December 2011,he was the longest-serving legislator in the history of Puerto Rico,having served in ten Legislative Assemblies,one House of Representatives,and nine Senates.
Gérard Philippe RenéAndréLarcher is a French politician serving as President of the Senate since 2014,previously holding the office from 2008 to 2011. A member of The Republicans,he has been a Senator for the Yvelines department since 1986,with an interruption between 2004 and 2007,when he was Minister for Employment,Labour and Professional Integration of Young People under President Jacques Chirac. Larcher also served as Mayor of Rambouillet from 1983 to 2004 and again from 2007 until 2014.
The 2009 Basque regional election was held on Sunday,1 March 2009,to elect the 9th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in Galicia. It would be the first time that the elections for two of the Spanish "historical regions"—namely,those comprising Andalusia,Catalonia,Galicia and the Basque Country itself—were held simultaneously. This would evolve into an unwritten convention in subsequent years,with Basque and Galician elections being held concurrently in 2012,2016 and 2020.
The 1994 Basque regional election was held on Sunday,23 October 1994,to elect the 5th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election.
Joan Lerma i Blasco is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE),who served as the first democratically elected President of the Valencian Government since the restoration of democracy in the 1970s.
Santiago Lanzuela Marina was a Spanish economist and politician for the People's Party (PP),who served as President of the Government of Aragon,one of the Spanish regional administrations.
JoséMaría "Txiki" Benegas Haddad was a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). His nickname "Txiki" is Basque for "small".
The president of the Senate is the presiding officer of the Spanish Senate,the upper house of Spain's Cortes Generales. It is the fourth authority of the country after the Monarch,the Prime Minister and the President of the Congress of Deputies. He or she is elected among and by the incumbent senators and when unable to exercise power,he or she is replaced by the Vice Presidents of the Senate.
The Popular Democratic Party is a political party in Puerto Rico that advocates to continue as a Commonwealth of the United States with self-governance. The party was founded in 1938 by dissidents from the Puerto Rican Liberal Party and the Unionist Party and originally promoted policies on the center-left. In recent years,however,its leaders have described the party as centrist.
The 2012 Basque regional election was held on Sunday,21 October 2012,to elect the 10th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in Galicia. Lehendakari Patxi López announced the parliament's dissolution half a year ahead of schedule as a result of the People's Party (PP) withdrawing their support from his government,prompting Galician president Alberto Núñez Feijóo,who had been scheduling a snap election in Galicia to be held at some point throughout late 2012,to make his decision to have a simultaneous vote.
The 2014 Extraordinary Federal Congress of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party was held on 26 and 27 July 2014 to elect a new party leadership in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE),with a preliminary primary election open to party members initially scheduled to be held on 13 July to elect a new Secretary General.
Ander Gil García is a Spanish teacher and politician serving as the 62nd and current president of the Senate of Spain since 2021. Gil has been Senator for Burgos since 2011 and Spokesperson of the Socialist Group in the Senate from 2017 to 2021. Previously,Gil served as a local councillor for Valle de Mena from 1995 to 2011.
