Parliament unanimously approves a report on the new Canarian electoral law

Parliament unanimously approves a report on the new Canarian electoral law

Parliament of the Canary Islands / c7

The new law, structured in six titles, consists of 40 articles, a transitory disposition, a repeal and three final ones.

EFE Santa Cruz of Tenerife

The plenary session of the regional Chamber has unanimously approved this Wednesday the presentation report of the proposal for the Election Law to the Parliament of the Canary Islands.

This electoral law incorporates different provisions that already governed
the regional electoral process of May 2019 and that, despite not being provided for in the electoral law of 2003, they were essential to order that last appointment with the polls with criteria of operability and legal certainty, following the criteria of the
Electoral Board of the Canary Islands and the Consultative Council.

The new law, structured in six titles, consists of 40 articles, a transitory disposition, a repeal and three final ones.

From what is established in the text, it stands out that
the total number of seats to elect will be 70, and that a regional constituency and seven insular constituencies are established.

The autonomous constituency will have the election of nine seats and to the total of
island constituencies shall be entitled to the election of sixty-one seats, which will be distributed as follows: three for El Hierro, eight for Fuerteventura, 15 for Gran Canaria, four for La Gomera, eight for Lanzarote, eight for La Palma and 15 for Tenerife.

Voting will be done on two ballots., one for each type of constituency, insular or regional. Each of these ballots will be placed in a ballot box.

After taking it into consideration last November, the president of the Parliament of the Canary Islands,
Gustavo Matos, conveyed the House's commitment to approve the law before the end of the current session period.

The Presidency of Parliament commissioned the General Secretariat to draft the text of the bill with the incorporation of the technical-legal criteria with which the elections were held in 2019.

That draft was passed on to the Table and the parliamentary groups, which expressed their agreement with the approval of the law in those terms, without prejudice to the fact that each one would continue, in the future, maintaining their opinion on some aspects of the electoral system.

Some technical amendments were presented that were incorporated into the text of the report and the groups agreed to process the law through the abbreviated procedure.

The deputies Rosa Bella Cabrera Ventura del Carmen Rodríguez for the Socialist Group participated in the presentation that has carried out these works; José Miguel Barragán and Socorro Beato for the Canarian Nationalist Group; Australia Navarro and Luz Reverón from the Popular Group; Luis Campos from the Nueva Canarias Group; Manuel Marrero from the Grupo Sí Podemos Canarias; Melodie Mendoza and Jesús Ramón Ramos from the Gomera Socialist Association Group; Ricardo Fernández de la Puente for the Mixed Group.

It's a statement
the Parliament of the Canary Islands justifies that the approval of the law arrives "somewhat late" Regarding the statutory provision in which legislative activity has been conditioned in this tenth legislature, first by the pandemic, and then by the volcanological crisis.

The First Transitory Provision of the new Statute of Autonomy, in force since the end of 2018, requires,
in its article 39the approval of an electoral law for the Canary Islands within a period of three years.

In May 2019, the citizens of the Canary Islands voted in the regional elections with a new system, but still without that law approved this Wednesday and whose objective is to guarantee the necessary legal certainty for the following regional elections.

Gustavo Matos points out that the approved text assumes, on the one hand, the
fulfillment of the mandate established in the reform of the Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands of 2018 and, also, the overcoming of an insufficient previous legal framework and not adapted to the Statute

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