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Spain was formerly considered to have a two-party system dominated by the PSOE and the PP; [1] however, the current makeup has no formation or coalition with enough seats to claim a parliamentary majority in the bicameral Cortes Generales (consisting of both the national Congress of Deputies and regional representation in the Senate).
A republic was proclaimed and the Congress of Deputies members started writing a Constitution, supposedly that of a federal republic, with the power of Parliament being nearly supreme (see parliamentary supremacy, although Spain did not use the Westminster system). However, due to numerous issues, Spain was not ready to become a republic; after ...
The 2023 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 23 July 2023, to elect the 15th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain.All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 265 seats in the Senate.
Catalonia's leftist pro-independence party ERC, which has supported Sanchez in key parliamentary votes since 2019: seven seats, half its 2019 result. Junts per Catalunya separatists: seven seats.
Spain's conservative People's Party is set to win the most seats in the lower house of parliament in a national election next month, ahead of the ruling Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), a poll ...
The 15th Spanish general election was held on July 23, 2023. The People's Party became the largest party in the Congress of Deputies with 137 seats, overtaking the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party at 121 seats. However, neither major party nor their ostensible allies received enough seats to claim a parliamentary majority.
VOX could even win one or more seats in Spain's national assembly in a general election due by mid-2020, becoming the first far-right party to enter the Spanish parliament since the end of the ...
Party PP: PSOE: Vox: Leader since 2 April 2022: 18 June 2017: 20 September 2014 Leader's seat Madrid: Madrid: Madrid: Last election 137 seats, 33.1% 121 seats, 31.7% 33 seats, 12.4% Current seats 137 120 33 Seats needed 39 56 143