Santander, (EFE).- The tenth legislature of the Parliament of Cantabria closes this 2023 with 37 laws approved, which represents the third term of the Cantabrian Chamber with more regulations that have gone ahead despite the fact that these four years have been marked due to the covid-19 pandemic.
According to the data provided to EFE by parliamentary sources, the Cantabrian Parliament, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2022, only approved more regulations in the 1995-1999 legislature (42 laws) and the one between 2003 and 2007, when 40 laws went ahead. The same legislative activity that took place in this tenth legislature between 1995 and 1999 (37 norms).
The first law approved, when the Chamber was established in 2019, was the budget for the year 2000, when the pandemic disrupted the activity of Parliament and also its regulations.
A legislature with 5 parties
On June 20, 2019, the Parliament of Cantabria was constituted with 35 deputies, about twenty of them new, which formed five groups: the PRC, the PP, the PSOE, the Ciudadanos and the Mixed (with the two deputies of Vox).
The parliamentary majority that added the PRC, winner of those last regional elections with 14 deputies, and the PSOE, with 7, reinvested Miguel Ángel Revilla as president in the summer of 2019.
This is how the PP remained in the opposition, with 9 deputies; Ciudadanos, which started with 3 parliamentarians, and Vox, which entered the mixed group with two parliamentarians. However, the end of this legislature ends differently from how it began, since one of the 35 deputies of the Chamber ends as non-attached: the former leader of Ciudadanos Marta García.
Agility with covid
The covid-19 forced the parliamentarians in the first exercise of the legislature to improve the agility in the management of aid to various social sectors.
Also that year, the LGTBI or Foundations law was approved, while in 2021, with various regulations related to the coronavirus, the Cantabria Historical and Democratic Memory Law went ahead.
In 2022 and after several legislatures of processing, the Land Law went ahead, a year in which the norm that regulates gambling in Cantabria, the Science Law, and the Local Police Coordination Law were also approved.
The last law approved in this tenth legislature, this month of March 2023, has been that of Recognition, Tribute, Memory and Dignity to the Victims of Terrorism.
1,500 questions and 700 proposals
During the last legislature, a total of 287 interpellations, 152 motions and 451 non-law proposals have been carried out in the Parliament of Cantabria.
The President of Cantabria, Miguel Ángel Revilla, has appeared to answer the groups’ questions 97 times; and 1,432 oral questions have been registered, in addition to 2,468 questions with written answers.
In addition to these parliamentary activities, 31 appearances by the Government have been carried out to give explanations and render accounts on various issues and two agreements have been signed with other autonomous communities.
More than 2,000 petitions from the opposition
Regarding the initiatives carried out in the Commission, a total of 60 non-legal proposals were presented, 343 oral questions were asked and 88 appearances by the Government and 37 appearances by authorities were carried out.
The opposition has required 2,240 requests for information to obtain data and explanations on different matters related to the work of the commissions.
Pablo Ayerbe Caselles
