The Permanent Council, the decisive institution before the elections
Composed of 69 deputies from political parties representing Congress, Parliament was dissolved following the call for elections, and now the relationship of strength of political parties is different in this institution, including the adoption of housing decrees.
After the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, has called elections for 29 Novemberand automatically dissolved Parliament, the Permanent Council will be responsible for the work of Congress in the pre-election period.
What is it?
The Permanent Council is an essential parliamentary body which ensures the continuity of the legislative and control functions of Congress from the dissolution of the Courts to the constituent session of the new legislature.
In short, it keeps alive the functions of the lower house, and when the legislature ends and the plenums end. The institution begins to operate when the decree on the dissolution of the courts is published in the Official Gazette of the State (BOE).
Who makes it up?
In the fifteenth legislature, it consists of 69 members: the President of Congress and 68 deputies, distributed among the parliamentary groups, in proportion to the number of seats in the plenary.
This is the current distribution of 69 seats: 27 PPs, 25 PSOEs (24 MPs and Speaker of the House Francina Armengol), 6 Vox, 6 other SUPs, and 1 ERC, PNV, Junts, EH Bildu and the Mixed Group (corresponding to Podemos).
What role does it play?
In addition to preserving the powers of the House, in cases of dissolution of the Courts, it is incumbent upon it to assume all the powers conferred on Congress by article 86 of the Constitution in respect of decree-laws, which are to be debated and voted on by the Permanent Council within thirty days of their adoption.
Thus, even after the end of the legislature and the dissolution of the Courts, the Government may, in the event of an extraordinary and urgent need, issue provisional legislative provisions in the form ofdecree-laws, such as housing decrees.
It is also competent to declare states of alarm, emergency and siege.
Housing decrees
With the current division of this body, the decree containing most housing measures may be adopted.
The sum of the votes of the parties that supported the vote in Congress is 35, while those that opposed it (PP, Vox, and Junts) add up to 34.
In the case of the second decree, on automatic rent renewal, it will not succeed because the PNVhas announced that it will vote against the PP, Vox and Junts , with 35 votes against and 34 in favour.
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