PARLIAMENT of GALICIA GENERAL INFORMATION: • Country
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PARLIAMENT OF GALICIA GENERAL INFORMATION: • Country (area and population): SPAIN 504,645 km² 46.449.565 inhabitants (National Statistics Institute, 1st January 2015) • Region (area and population): GALICIA 29,574 km² 2.732.347 inhabitants (National Statistics Institute, 1st January 2015) • Regional Government: XUNTA DE GALICIA (GOVERNMENT OF GALICIA) • Competences of the Region: those contemplated in the Statute of Autonomy (framework law 1/1981, 6th April). General information on the Parliament: Location: SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA Language: SPANISH AND GALICIAN Date of establishment: 1981 Website: www.parlamentodegalicia.gal Logotype Shield 1 DUTIES OF THE PARLIAMENT Outline of the Parliament’s responsibilities: Legislative and budgetary responsibilities, election and dissolution of the Regional’s Government and President, control of and political support for the Executive. Moreover, the Parliament has, under the Spanish Constitution, Legislative initiative before the Congress of Deputies, appoints three senators to the Senate and is entitled before the constitutional Court. MAKE-UP The parliament comprises a total of 75 MPs Distribution in terms of sex and mean age: 34 women/41 men (47 years of age) Electoral system proportional (D'Hondt formula). Mandate 4 years Voting requirements (right to vote) Article 2 of Law 8/1985, on elections to the Parliament of Galicia: “1. Electors shall be those persons, who qualify as being Galician pursuant to Article 3 of the Statute of Autonomy, who are of legal age and who enjoy the right to vote. 2. In order to exercise the right to vote, registration in the electoral roll is essential.” Eligibility requirements (standing as a candidate) Article 4.1 of Law 8/1985, on elections to the Parliament of Galicia: "Those citizens who, qualifying as electors, are not subject to any of the causes for non-eligibility appearing in the general electoral legislation shall be eligible." Make-up of the Parliament as a result of the most recent parliamentary elections. Political Parties and number of seats: PARTIDO POPULAR DE GALICIA; PARTIDO DOS SOCIALISTAS DE GALICIA-PARTIDO SOCIALISTA OBRERO ESPAÑOL; ALTERNATIVA GALEGA DE ESQUERDA (EU-ANOVA); BLOQUE NACIONALISTA GALEGO 2 Parliamentary Groups Requirements to form a parliamentary group: To comprise a minimum of 5 MPs, except to the joint parliamentary group. Political group PARTIDO POPULAR (P.P.) Name: Grupo Parlamentario Popular de Galicia Spokesperson: Mr. Pedro Puy Fraga Number of MPs: 41 Contact information: Telephone: 981 551510 Political Group EN MAREA Name: Grupo Parlamentario En Marea Spokesperson: Mr. Luis Villares Naveira Number of MPs: 14 Contact information: Telephone: 981 551584 Political Group PARTIDO DOS SOCIALISTAS DE GALICIA-PARTIDO SOCIALISTA OBRERO ESPAÑOL (PSdeG-PSOE) Name: Grupo Parlamentario dos Socialistas de Galicia Spokesperson: Mr. Xoaquín Fernández Leiceaga Number of MPs: 14 Contact information: Telephone: 981 551530 Political Group BLOQUE NACIONALISTA GALEGO (B.N.G.) Name: Grupo Parlamentario do Bloque Nacionalista Galego. Spokesperson: Mrs. Ana Belén Pontón Mondelo Number of MPs: 6 Contact information: Telephone: 981 551545 3 THE PARLIAMENT'S GOVERNING BODIES The President Manner of election, mandate and responsibilities: Election by majority in the in the constitutive sitting of the Parliament of 24th October 2016 Duties: Representation and management of the Chamber Information on the current President: MIGUEL ÁNGEL SANTALICES VIEIRA Contact information: RÚA DO HORREO, 63 15701 SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA TEL.: 981 55 13 01 Fax: 981 55 14 00 [email protected] 4 Other bodies (Parliamentary Committee/Spokespersons’ committee/…) Parliamentary Committee Make up: President: Mr. Miguel Ángel Santalices Vieira First Deputy President: Mr. Diego Calvo Pouso Second Deputy President: Mrs. Eva Solla Fernández Secretary: Mrs. Raquel Arias Rodríguez Deputy Secretary: Mrs. Concepción Burgo López Method of election: Election in the constitutive sitting of the Parliament. Duties: Responsible for the collegiate representation of the Chamber in those official acts it attends, interpreting and completing the Regulations, where applicable, in the event of doubt or omission; adopting measures conducive to the organization of work and to the internal regime and governance of the Chamber ; preparing draft budgets and implementing the same subsequent to approval; qualifying parliamentary deeds and documents; programing the general lines of actions for the Chamber and setting the Schedule of activities for the Plenary Sitting and Committees, among other duties. 5 Committee of Spokespersons Make-up: The members of the Parliamentary Committee, referred to in the previous section, and the spokespersons from the parliamentary groups: Popular Political Group: Mr. Pedro Puy Fraga En Marea Political Group: Mr. Luis Villares Naveira Socialistas de Galicia Political Group: Mr. Xoaquín Fernández Leiceaga Bloque Nacionalista Galego Political Group: Mrs. Ana Belén Pontón Mondelo Method of election: Appointed by the parliamentary groups. Duties: Establishing the criteria which help to order and facilitate debates and parliamentary tasks; setting the schedule of activities for committees; deciding on the Commission that is competent for dealing with draft legislation and proposals; setting the number of members for each parliamentary group that make up the commissions and assigning the seats in the chamber to the different parliamentary groups. 6 THE PARLIAMENT'S OPERATIONAL BODIES Plenary Sitting Make-up: All the MPs in the Chamber. Duties: This is the supreme body of the Chamber, in which all matters for which it has competence are finally and definitively debated. 7 Commissions: Make-up: Unless otherwise stipulated, commissions are made up of the MPs appointed by the parliamentary groups, in the number which, with respect to each one, is indicated by the Parliamentary Committee, with the Committee of Spokespersons having been heard, and proportional to the number of MPs in the Chamber. All parliamentary groups have the right to have at least one representative on each Commission. Duties: These commissions are the most important instruments in parliamentary work, as they have competences in those projects, proposals entrusted to them by the Parliamentary Committee. Types: The most important are the legislative standing commissions, of which there are currently eight: 1 - Institutional, General Administration, Justice and Home affairs. 2 – Land Management, Public Works, Environment and Services. 3 – Economy, Tax and Budgets 4 – Education and Culture 5 – Healthcare, Social Policy and Employment 6 – Industry, Energy, Commerce and Tourism 7 - Agriculture, Food, Cattle and Rural Setting 8 – Fishing and Seafood Farming. These commissions prepare the debate for the Plenary Sittings on draft legislation and proposals which correspond to them owing to the matter in hand. Also classed as standing commissions are those that must be established by legal provision, such as the following: on Regulations on the Statutes of MPs on Petitions. The following commissions are also non-legislative standing commissions: Commission for relations with the Audit Council. Commission for Controlling the Radio-TV Company of Galicia. The Galician Parliament has also established three non-standing commissions for the current parliamentary term: • Commission for the Study on Disability Policies • Commission on Road Safety • Commission for the Study of Gender Equality and Women Rights 8 ADMINISTRATION OF THE PARLIAMENT GENERAL INFORMATION The personnel in the service of the Administration in the Parliament of Galicia is classified into the following: a) Career civil servant personnel. b) Temporary administrative personnel. c) Contract personnel (either permanent or temporary). d) Temporary advisory personnel. Personnel: 79 active administrative workers The career civil servant personnel in the Administration of the Parliament of Galicia comprise the following: a) Legal counsel body of the Parliament of Galicia. b) Higher body of the Parliament of Galicia. c) Management of the Parliament of Galicia. d) Administrative body of the Parliament of Galicia. e) Auxiliary body of the Parliament of Galicia. DUTIES a) Legal counsel body of the Parliament of Galicia. Responsible for the duties of providing legal and technical advice for the President’s Office and the Parliamentary Committee, commission committees and for papers, as well as the drafting, in accordance with the agreements adopted by these bodies, of the rulings, reports and opinions and the taking of the corresponding minutes; the representation and defence of the Parliament before the courts and the Constitutional Court; the duties of top-level studies; and, where applicable, those Administration management duties which may be entrusted to it as determined in the Regulations for the organization and operation and in the corresponding job listings. The legal counsel of the Parliament of Galicia is classified in professional group A. b) Higher body of the Parliament of Galicia. Responsible for duties of providing top-level facultative assistance and advice characteristic of the corresponding speciality and the preparation of reports, studies, technical developments, regulatory projects and proposals, as well as the exercising of management duties in the Administration of the Chamber, as specified in the job description. The higher body of the Parliament of Galicia is classified in professional group A. c) Management