Parliament of the Balearic Islands Parlament de les Illes Balears | |
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Balearic Islands unicameral legislature | |
Type | |
Type | |
Houses | Unicameral |
Leadership | |
Vice President | |
Second Vice President | |
Secretary | |
Second Secretary | |
Opposition Leader | |
Structure | |
Seats | 59 |
Political groups | Government (25)
Supported by (1)
Opposition (32) |
Length of term | 4 years |
Elections | |
Last election | 28 May 2023 |
Meeting place | |
The old El Cercle Mallorquí building, home of the Balearic Parliament. | |
Website | |
www.parlamentib.cat |
The Parliament of the Balearic Islands (Catalan: Parlament de les Illes Balears; Spanish: Parlamento de las Islas Baleares) is the unicameral autonomous parliament of the Balearic Islands, one of the autonomous communities of Spain. Composed of 59 elected seats, it sits in the city of Palma, on the island of Majorca.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Balearic Islands (Catalan : Assemblea de Parlamentaris de les Illes Balears) was an unofficial provisional body serving as pre-autonomic representation from 30 July 1977. It was composed by the eleven elected deputies and senators in the 1977 general election. Additionally, on 13 June 1978, the pre-autonomic regime decree installed the new Inter-island General Council, and two more representatives from Menorca and two more from the Pityusic Islands were elected. The President was Jeroni Albertí, member of the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD). When the Inter-island General Council was constituted on 24 July 1978, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Balearic Islands was dissolved. [1] [2]
The composition of the Assembly was defined by the 1977 general election results in the Balearic Islands, which were the following:
Parties | Dep | Senators | Total | |||
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Mall | Men | I–F | ||||
UCD | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
PSOE | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
AP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Total | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | |
Sources [3] [4] |
The 1978 Spanish Constitution anticipated the organisation of the State in Autonomous Communities. The different historic regions and nationalities could access to the autonomy through two ways; the so-called fast way (article 151) and the so-called slow or common way (article 143). During the process of achievement, the province or provinces could request to the Congress of Deputies the regime of preautonomy, as a transition period from the centralism to the self-government. On 13 June 1978 the Inter-island General Council (Catalan : Consell General Interinsular), preautonomous body for the Balearic Islands, was constituted by royal decree. [5] It substituted the Provincial Council of the Balearics and possessed some of the basic competences in health and culture, although its main function was drafting a Statue of Autonomy for the archipelago. On a 17 July 1978 decree, the election of its members was defined. [6] On 1 March 1983 the Statue of Autonomy of the Balearic Islands came into effect, and the Inter-island General Council disappeared, being replaced by the Government of the Balearic Islands. [7]
During the five years of its existence, the institution had two presidents. Jeroni Albertí (UCD) resigned in 1982 before participating in the foundation of Majorcan Union (UM). [8] The Menorcan Francesc Tutzó (UCD), who had been the vice-president, replaced Albertí, and governed the body until the 1983 regional election. [9]
Seats | Island Constituencies [b] |
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33 | Mallorca |
13 | Menorca |
12 | Ibiza |
1 | Formentera |
Deputies in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands since 1983 | |||||||||||
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Election | Distribution | President | |||||||||
1983 |
| Gabriel Cañellas (AP) | |||||||||
1987 |
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1991 |
| Gabriel Cañellas (PP) | |||||||||
1995 |
| Gabriel Cañellas (PP) | |||||||||
Cristòfol Soler (PP) | |||||||||||
Jaume Matas (PP) | |||||||||||
1999 |
| Francesc Antich (PSIB–PSOE) | |||||||||
2003 |
| Jaume Matas (PP) | |||||||||
2007 |
| Francesc Antich (PSIB–PSOE) | |||||||||
2011 |
| José Ramón Bauzá (PP) | |||||||||
2015 |
| Francina Armengol (PSIB–PSOE) | |||||||||
2019 |
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2023 |
| Marga Prohens (PP) |
Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Legislature | Political Party | |||
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Took office | Left office | Days | ||||
Parliamentary Assembly of the Balearic Islands | ||||||
Jeroni Albertí Picornell (1927–2024) | 30 July 1977 | 24 July 1978 | 359 | Pre-autonomic | Union of the Democratic Centre | |
Inter-island General Council | ||||||
Jeroni Albertí Picornell (1927–2024) | 24 July 1978 | 27 September 1982 | 1526 | Pre-autonomic | Union of the Democratic Centre | |
Francesc Tutzó Bennàsar (b. 1940) | 27 September 1982 | 10 June 1983 | 256 | |||
Parliament of the Balearic Islands | ||||||
Antoni Cirerol Thomàs (1926–2015) | 10 June 1983 [10] | 14 April 1987 [11] | 1404 | I (1983–1987) | People's Alliance | |
Jeroni Albertí Picornell (1927–2024) | 31 July 1987 [12] | 2 April 1991 [13] | 1341 | II (1987–1991) | Majorcan Union | |
Cristòfol Soler Cladera (b. 1956) | 20 June 1991 [14] | 4 April 1995 [15] | 1416 | III (1991–1995) | People's Party | |
22 June 1995 [16] | 24 July 1995 [17] | IV (1995–1999) | ||||
Joan Huguet Rotger (b. 1954) | 31 July 1995 [18] | 20 April 1999 [19] | 1359 | |||
Antoni Diéguez Seguí (b. 1954) | 13 July 1999 [20] | 4 August 1999 | 22 | V (1999–2003) | Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands | |
Maximilià Morales Gómez (1948–2017) | 4 August 1999 [21] | 1 April 2003 [22] | 1336 | Majorcan Union | ||
Pere Rotger Llabrés (b. 1951) | 19 June 2003 [23] | 3 April 2007 [24] | 1384 | VI (2003–2007) | People's Party | |
Maria Antònia Munar Riutort (b. 1955) | 26 June 2007 [25] | 5 March 2010 [26] | 983 | VII (2007–2011) | Majorcan Union | |
Aina Rado Ferrando (1947–2017) | 9 March 2010 [27] | 29 March 2011 [28] | 385 | Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands | ||
Pere Rotger Llabrés (b. 1951) | 8 June 2011 [29] | 14 December 2012 [30] | 555 | VIII (2011–2015) | People's Party | |
Margalida Duran Cladera (b. 1967) | 18 December 2012 [31] | 31 March 2015 [32] | 833 | |||
María Consuelo Huertas Calatayud (b. 1959) | 19 June 2015 [33] | 25 January 2017 [34] | 586 | IX (2015–2019) | We Can | |
Baltasar Picornell Lladó (b. 1977) | 14 February 2017 [35] | 20 June 2019 | 856 | |||
Vicenç Thomàs Mulet (b. 1958) | 20 June 2019 [36] | 20 June 2023 | 1461 | X (2019–2023) | Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands | |
Gabriel Le Senne (b. 1977) | 20 June 2023 [37] | Incumbent | 571 | XI (2023–) | Vox |
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