Assembly of Madrid
{{Update|date=May 2024|reason=Madrid regional elections of 2023}}{{Infobox Parliament
| name = Assembly of Madrid
| native_name = Asamblea de Madrid
| coa_pic = Escudo de la Comunidad de Madrid (oficial).svg
| coa_res = 60px
| session_room = Debate del Estado de la región 2009.jpg
| house_type = Spanish regional legislature
| houses = Unicameral
| leader1_type = President
| leader1 = Enrique Ossorio
| party1 = PP
| election1 = 14 June 2023
| leader2_type = Vice President
| leader2 = Ana Belén Millán
| party2 = PP
| election2 = 14 June 2023
| leader3_type = Second Vice President
| leader3 = Esther Rodríguez
| party3 = Más Madrid
| election3 = 14 June 2023
| leader4_type = Third Vice President
| leader4 = Diego Cruz
| party4 = PSOE-M
| election4 = 14 June 2023
| leader5_type = Secretary
| leader5 = Francisco Galeote
| party5 = PP
| election5 = 14 June 2023
| leader6_type = Second Secretary
| leader6 = José Ignacio Arias
| party6 = Vox
| election6 = 14 June 2023
| leader7_type = Third Secretary
| leader7 = Susana Pérez
| party7 = PP
| election7 = 14 June 2023
| last_election1 = 28 May 2023
| next_election1 = Next
| members = 135
| structure1 = Asamblea de madrid XIII legislatura.png
| structure1_res = 210px
| structure1_alt = Composition of the Madrid Assembly
| political_groups1 =
Government (70)
- {{color box|{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}}} PP (70)
Opposition (65)
- {{color box|{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}}} PSOE-M (27)
- {{color box|{{party color|Más Madrid}}}} Más Madrid (26)
- {{color box|{{party color|Vox (political party)}}}} Vox (11)
- {{Color box|{{party color|Independent}}}} Independent (1){{efn|Loreto Arenillas was expelled from Más Madrid in 2024.}}
| meeting_place = Seat of the Assembly of Madrid
Plaza de la Asamblea, Madrid, Community of Madrid
| website = [http://www.asambleamadrid.es www.asambleamadrid.es]
}}
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The Assembly of Madrid or Madrid Assembly ({{langx|es|Asamblea de Madrid}}) is the unicameral autonomous legislature of the Autonomous Community of Madrid since the approval of the Madrid Charter of Autonomy in 1983.
It is elected every four years during the Spanish Regional and Municipal elections, as the Community of Madrid Charter of Autonomy does not recognise the right to call early elections (as in the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia and Andalusia), save for exceptional situations like the scandal that deadlocked the May 2003 Assembly and forced fresh elections in October 2003. According to the Charter, the Assembly is empowered to write Madrid's regional legislation, to control the regional government's actions, and to elect the President of the Community of Madrid.
The Assembly meets in the district of Vallecas of Madrid in a hall inaugurated in 1998 specifically designed to host the Madrid Assembly.
Membership
{{See also|2023 Madrilenian regional election}}
The legislature is currently ({{As of|2021|lc=on}}) made up of 136 deputies,{{cite news |title=La razón por la que la Asamblea de Madrid pasará de 132 a 136 diputados tras el 4-M |url=https://www.telemadrid.es/elecciones/Asamblea-Madrid-diputados-0-2325367458--20210323022629.html |access-date=18 October 2021 |publisher=Telemadrid |date=23 March 2021 |language=Spanish}} elected all at once in closed party lists for terms of 4 years. Seats are allocated using the proportional D'Hondt method in one constituency, which makes the Madrid Assembly one of the biggest parliaments in the world with one only constituency. In 2007, this fact moved President Esperanza Aguirre to propose splitting the Community of Madrid into twelve constituencies{{cite news | url = http://www.elpais.com/articulo/madrid/Ejecutivo/Aguirre/insiste/dividir/region/circunscripciones/electorales/frente/unica/actual/elpepuespmad/20070615elpmad_6/Tes | title = El Ejecutivo de Aguirre insiste en dividir la región en 12 circunscripciones electorales, frente a la única actual | newspaper = El País | date = 2007-06-15 | access-date = 2007-06-15|language=es | last1 = Alcaide | first1 = Soledad }} of 9 to 15 AMs each. The alleged benefit was increasing the contact between statesmen and their electors, but the reform was rejected by the rest of parties in the Assembly on the grounds that it was not a pressing matter, and it would alter the composition of the assembly in favour of the most voted party. Eventually, the proposal was abandoned even though President Aguirre had the majority to pass it through the Assembly, because it would be defeated in the Cortes Generales as it had to be done through a process of reform of the Charter of Autonomy.
Parties that obtain more than 5AMs can form a parliamentary group, in order to organise and participate in the debates and committees of the assembly. Parties that do not reach that number of seats will be part of the mixed group. Currently the threshold for obtaining seats in the Madrid Assembly is 5% of the total votes cast including votes "en blanco" i.e. for "none of the above", thus making it mathematically impossible for a party to obtain less than five seats.
=Results of the elections to the Assembly of Madrid=
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! colspan="4" |Deputies in Assembly of Madrid since 1983 |
| colspan="4" | {{hidden begin|title=Key to parties|contentstyle=font-size:95%; border:solid 1px silver; padding:8px; background:white;}}
{{colbegin|colwidth=12.5em}} {{legend|{{party color|Podemos (Spanish political party)}}|Podemos|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend|{{party color|Communist Party of Madrid}}|PCE|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend|{{party color|United Left of the Community of Madrid}}|IU|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend|{{party color|Más Madrid}}|MM|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend|{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid}}|PSOE|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend|{{party color|Union, Progress and Democracy}}|UPyD|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend|{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}|UCD|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend|{{party color|Citizens (Spanish political party)}}|Cs|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend|{{party color|Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)}}|CDS|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend|{{party color|Democratic Coalition (Spain)}}|CD|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend|{{party color|People's Party of Asturias}}|PP|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend|{{party color|People's Coalition (Spain)}}|CP|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend|{{party color|People's Alliance (Spain)}}|AP|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend|{{party color|Vox (political party)}}|Vox|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{colend}} {{hidden end}} |
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! Election ! Distribution ! colspan="2"|President |
| align=center|1983
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| style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of Madrid}}; width:9em; color:white;"| 9 | style="background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:51em; color:white;"| 51 | style="background:{{party color|People's Coalition (Spain)}}; width:34em; color:white;"| 34 |
| rowspan="3" |Joaquín Leguina (PSOE)
| rowspan="3" style="background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid}};"|
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| align=center|1987
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| style="background:{{party color|United Left of the Community of Madrid}}; width:7em; color:white;"| 7 | style="background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:40em; color:white;"| 40 | style="background:{{party color|Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)}}; width:17em; color:white;"| 17 | style="background:{{party color|People's Alliance (Spain)}}; width:32em; color:white;"| 32 |
|-
| align=center|1991
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| style="background:{{party color|United Left of the Community of Madrid}}; width:13em; color:white;"| 13 | style="background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:41em; color:white;"| 41 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:47em; color:white;"| 47 |
|-
| align=center|1995
|
| style="width:45em; font-size:85%; text-align:center; font-family:Courier New;" |
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| style="background:{{party color|United Left of the Community of Madrid}}; width:17em; color:white;"| 17 | style="background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:32em; color:white;"| 32 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:54em; color:white;"| 54 |
| rowspan="3" | Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón (PP)
| rowspan="10" style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}};"|
|-
| align=center|1999
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| style="width:45em; font-size:85%; text-align:center; font-family:Courier New;" |
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| style="background:{{party color|United Left of the Community of Madrid}}; width:8em; color:white;"| 8 | style="background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:39em; color:white;"| 39 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:55em; color:white;"| 55 |
|-
| align=center|May 2003
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| style="background:{{party color|United Left of the Community of Madrid}}; width:9em; color:white;"| 9 | style="background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:47em; color:white;"| 47 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:55em; color:white;"| 55 |
|-
| align=center|Oct 2003
|
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| style="background:{{party color|United Left of the Community of Madrid}}; width:9em; color:white;"| 9 | style="background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:45em; color:white;"| 45 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:57em; color:white;"| 57 |
| rowspan="3" |Esperanza Aguirre (PP) (2003–2012)
Ignacio González (PP) (2012–2015)
|-
| align=center|2007
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| style="background:{{party color|United Left of the Community of Madrid}}; width:11em; color:white;"| 11 | style="background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:42em; color:white;"| 42 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:67em; color:white;"| 67 |
|-
| align=center|2011
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| style="width:45em; font-size:85%; text-align:center; font-family:Courier New;" |
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| style="background:{{party color|United Left of the Community of Madrid}}; width:13em; color:white;"| 13 | style="background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:36em; color:white;"| 36 | style="background:{{party color|Union, Progress and Democracy}}; width:8em; color:white;"| 8 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:72em; color:white;"| 72 |
|-
| align=center|2015
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| style="background:{{party color|Podemos (Spanish political party)}}; width:27em; color:white;"| 27 | style="background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:37em; color:white;"| 37 | style="background:{{party color|Citizens (Spanish political party)}}; width:17em; color:white;"| 17 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:48em; color:white;"| 48 |
|Cristina Cifuentes (PP) (2015–2018)
Ángel Garrido (PP) (2018–2019)
|-
| align=center|2019
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| style="background:{{party color|Podemos (Spanish political party)}}; width:7em; color:white;"| 7 | style="background:{{party color|Más Madrid}}; width:20em; color:white;"| 20 | style="background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:37em; color:white;"| 37 | style="background:{{party color|Citizens (Spanish political party)}}; width:26em; color:white;"|26 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:30em; color:white;"| 30 | style="background:{{party color|Vox (political party)}}; width:12em; color:white;"| 12 |
| rowspan="3" | Isabel Díaz Ayuso (PP)
|-
| align=center|2021
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| style="background:{{party color|Podemos (Spanish political party)}}; width:10em; color:white;" | 10 | style="background:{{party color|Más Madrid}}; width:24em; color:white;" | 24 | style="background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:24em; color:white;" | 24 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:65em; color:white;" | 65 | style="background:{{party color|Vox (political party)}}; width:13em; color:white;" | 13 |
|-
| align=center|2023
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| style="background:{{party color|Más Madrid}}; width:27em; color:white;" | 27 | style="background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:27em; color:white;" | 27 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; width:70em; color:white;" | 70 | style="background:{{party color|Vox (political party)}}; width:11em; color:white;" | 11 |
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Leadership
The Madrid Assembly's Leadership resides in the Bureau of the Assembly comprising a President (Speaker), three Vice Presidents who chair debate when the President is absent, and three Secretaries, elected in the first session of each newly elected Assembly. The Bureau is tasked with managing the Assembly schedule and interpreting its rules of order, including the power to expel members from the sessions.
File:Madrid - Puente de Vallecas - Asamblea de Madrid 3.JPG]]
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|+ Composition of the Bureau of the Madrid Assembly for the 12th Assembly of Madrid | ||
| Position
! Name !Party | ||
|---|---|---|
| President (Speaker) | María Eugenia Carballedo Berlanga | PPCM |
| 1st Vice President | Jorge Rodrigo Domínguez | PPCM |
| 2nd Vice President | Ignacio Arias Moreno | Vox |
| 3rd Vice President | Esther Rodríguez Moreno | Más Madrid |
| 1st Secretary | José María Arribas del Barrio | PPCM |
| 2nd Secretary | Diego Cruz Torrijos | PSOE-M |
| 3rd Secretary | Francisco Galeote Perea | PPCM |
There is also a second, consultative body, the Spokespersons' Council (Spanish: Junta de Portavoces), which is made up of the leaders and spokespersons from each parliamentary groupEach representative's vote counts as the full power of his/her parliamentary group, so the majority of the ruling party or coalition can't be overturned by a more numerous (in terms of parliamentary groups) opposition. in the Assembly and has the right to be "heard"Literally, in the Spanish legal jargon, some decisions are to be taken "oída la Junta de Portavoces", that is, "having heard the Spokespersons' Council's opinion". before the Bureau takes some decisions such as scheduling debates and votes. In the Spanish system, however, ruling parties usually do not hold a tight grip over the Parliament's schedule, nor do they use it to turn down the opposition proposals without debate: they are just voted down in committee or by the full house after the shortest debate allowed by the rules of order. Thus, while control of the Bureau and the Spokespersons' Council is definitely important, it is not a critical matter as it sometimes becomes in other systems.
Committees
The Assembly organises its work in different committees. Committees are constituted by the bureau of the Assembly on the advice of the Spokespersons' Council. The number and grouping of its members is also determined at the same time. The election of the membership of the committees is a role of the parliamentary groups that have to be always represented in the committees. The committees are directed by a Bureau composed of a Chair, a vice-chair and a secretary and each group is to designate a Spokesperson and an adjutant spokesperson for the committee, that will usually take care of that matters also in the plenary.
See also
Notes
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References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.asambleamadrid.es Official site of the Madrid Assembly] - In Spanish by default, also has an English version
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