Parliament of Andalusia

Infobox Parliament
name = "Parlamento de Andalucía"
Parliament of Andalusia
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house_type = List of Spanish regional legislatures|Regional Legislature
houses = Unicameral
leader1_type = President
leader1 = Fuensanta Coves
party1 = PSOE
election1 = 2008
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members = 109
p_groups = PSOE, PP, IU
election3 = March 9 2008
meeting_place = Hospital de las Cinco Llagas, Seville
website = http://www.parlamentodeandalucia.esThe Andalusian Parliament is the legislature of the Spanish Autonomous Community of Andalusia instituted by the Andalusian Charter of Autonomy of 1981. It is elected by the residents in Andalusia every four years. The Andalusian Parliament is, with the Basque, Catalonian and the Galician parliaments, one of the four regional legislatures in Spain that can call for elections independent of the regional and municipal elections, upon decision to dissolve the house by the Regional President.

Functions of the Andalusian Parliament

*To elect the Presiedent of Andalusia.
*To pass the Andalusian regional legislation in the business of its competence.
*To pass the Budget of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia
*To control the action of the Andalusian Regional Government Administration and the autonomous agencies, public companies and all other bodies answerable to it. Such as
**The Local Authorities in the Andalusian territory, as well as the autonomous agencies and public companies answerable to them.
**Andalusian Public Universities.
**Andalusian Chambers of Commerce and other institutions mostly financed by public funds.

Membership

The Andalusian Parliament consists of 109 Members of the Andalusian Parliament , elected for four year terms in proportional party lists using the D'Hondt method in eight constituencies, being each one of the Andalusian provinces. If more than five MP's are elected for any party they will form a Parliamentary Group.

=After the 2008 elections the current composition of the Andalusian Parliament is:

Party	MP's	Spokesperson
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	56	Manuel Gracia Navarro
People's Party (PP)	47	Esperanza Oña Sevilla, (president).
United Left (IU)	6	Diego Valderas Sosa

Location

The Andalusian Parliament is Located in Seville, the capital city of Andalusia.

Its building is the former Hospital of the "Cinco Llagas" (Five Bruises). Built in 1546 by order of Don Fadrique Enríquez de Ribera. It was designed by Martín de Gainza. The building worked as hospital until 1972, in 1986 the plans for turning the building into the headquarters of Andalusia's parliament were passed. The Building was inaugurated as Andalusian Parliament on February 28th 1992 (day of Andalusia).

External links

*es icon [http:///www.parlamentodeandalucia.es Andalusian Parliament Website]