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  Tue, Sep 27, 2011
Spain's government calls an early general election
(Esta entrada está disponible también en español.)

The government of outgoing Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero approved yesterday the decree to dissolve the Cortes - Spain's bicameral legislature - and hold an early general election on Sunday, November 20, 2011.

Elections to the Spanish Congress of Deputies has detailed information about Spain's electoral system, and the Official State Gazette (BOE) has the full (Spanish-language) text of Royal Decree 1329/2011, of September 26, of dissolution of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate and call to elections.

Concerning the redistribution of Congress of Deputies seats, only Madrid will have an extra seat in the lower house of the Spanish Cortes, at the expense of Cádiz, which will lose one. Had the 2008 general election taken place under the new distribution of Congress seats, the opposition People's Party (PP) would have had one seat fewer in Cádiz, but would have won the newly-added seat in Madrid. Otherwise, the ten parties represented in Congress would have obtained the same number of seats they won in the last election.

posted by Manuel Álvarez-Rivera : 09/27/2011 16:04 | permanent link

Gobierno de España convoca a elecciones generales adelantadas
(This posting is also available in English.)

El gobierno del presidente (primer ministro) español saliente José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero aprobó en el día de ayer el decreto para disolver las Cortes - la legislatura bicameral de España - y celebrar elecciones generales adelantadas el domingo, 20 de noviembre de 2011.

Elecciones al Congreso de los Diputados de España tiene información detallada sobre el sistema electoral español, y el Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) tiene el texto completo del Real Decreto 1329/2011, de 26 de septiembre, de disolución del Congreso de los Diputados y del Senado y de convocatoria de elecciones.

En lo tocante a la redistribución de escaños en el Congreso de los Diputados, solamente Madrid contará con un escaño adicional en la cámara baja de las Cortes Españolas, a expensas de Cádiz, que perderá uno. Si las elecciones generales de 2008 se hubiesen llevado a cabo bajo la nueva distribución de escaños en el Congreso, el opositor Partido Popular (PP) hubiera contado con un escaño menos en Cádiz, pero hubiera conseguido el recien añadido escaño de Madrid. Por lo demás, los diez partidos representados en el Congreso hubieran obtenido el mismo número de escaños que ganaron en las pasadas elecciones.

posted by Manuel Álvarez-Rivera : 09/27/2011 16:04 | permanent link