Madrid (EFE)
The decrees calling for the 28M elections published in the BOE at the beginning of April trace the calendar: after the Madrid Assembly, the Legislative Assembly of the Region of Murcia will be constituted on June 14, and on Friday the 16th at 11:00 a.m. the Parliament of Navarre will do.
The following week, Thursday 22, the Parliament of Castilla-La Mancha, the Parliament of La Rioja, the Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria and the Parliament of Aragon will be constituted.
A week later it will be the turn of Les Corts Valencianas, on Monday, June 26 at 10:30 a.m., and the Parliament of the Canary Islands, on Tuesday 27 at 11 a.m.
The cases of the Balearic Islands, Extremadura and Asturias
There are three communities in which the date is not set in the call for elections, which must still be established by decree by their acting presidents now that the elections have already been held.
The Statute of Autonomy of the Balearic Islands establishes a maximum period of 30 days for the constitution of its Parliament, so it will be June 27 at the latest. In Extremadura it is regulated that the constitutive session of the elected regional Assembly must be convened within fifteen calendar days following the holding of the elections.
The Statute of Autonomy of Asturias also gives the outgoing president 15 days after the elections to convene the constitutive session of the General Meeting of the Principality, which must take place within a period of 20 days after the elections.
Before those dates, intense negotiations will take place between the parties that have obtained parliamentary representation to reach the constitution session with closed pacts for the distribution of positions of the tables of the Chamber. The investitures, from then on.
The town halls, yes or yes on June 17
The almost 8,100 Spanish town halls in which municipal elections were held this Sunday will be constituted and will elect a mayor on Saturday, June 17, once the area electoral boards proclaim the more than 67,000 people who have been elected in the elections from yesterday.
That is if appeals are not presented, such as the one that the Coalition for Melilla has already announced in this autonomous city after the operation for an alleged purchase of votes in which, among others, the number three of the formation and already a former adviser in the Government were arrested. local, Mohamed Ahmed Al-lal, and the son-in-law of the party leader, Mustafa Aberchán.
Article 195.1 of the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG) establishes that “municipal corporations are constituted in public session the twentieth day after the holding of the elections, unless a contentious-electoral appeal has been filed against the proclamation of the elected councilors, in which case they are constituted on the fortieth day after the elections.
That same day, as determined by article 196 of the same LOREG, in the constitution session of the corporation “the election of Mayor is proceeded”, either when one of the candidates reaches an absolute majority, or, otherwise, when be proclaimed the councilor who leads the list with the highest number of popular votes or, if there is a tie in votes, by lottery.
Yes they can be delayed: if there are judicial resources
Once the official scrutiny is over, the parties will have one day to present claims and the zone electoral boards another day to resolve them, and a period of up to seven days will begin that will end with the proclamation of elected officials.
As it appears on the electoral website of the Ministry of the Interior, this will take place between June 6 and 14, and then the parties will be able to appeal to the zone boards in the following three days.
Although this happens on rare occasions, in that case a new term would be opened, which cannot exceed 37 days from the elections, for the corresponding Superior Court of Justice to rule and notify the parties of its sentence.
Precedents
For example, after the municipal elections of May 26, 2019, the mayor of Reus, Carles Pellicer, could not be elected until July 3 because the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia annulled his election 18 days before as a result of the candidate of Vox, Jordi Ferré Rey, will denounce the refusal of the three CUP councilors to swear or promise the Constitution at their inauguration.
In that case it did not happen, but it could happen that a party filed an appeal for amparo before the Constitutional Court within three days of notification of the Supreme Court’s ruling.
If that, which is even more unusual, ends up happening, the Constitutional Court would have 15 days to rule, as happened after the 2015 municipal and regional elections in Badajoz, when the high court upheld the amparo appeal of Ganemos-IU-Los Verdes and ordered to the Provincial Electoral Board to repeat the scrutiny of each one of the null votes of the province.
In any case, the Central Electoral Board must have published the results of the elections in the BOE no later than 40 days after the proclamation of those elected, in such a way that the municipalities in which there has been an appeal can be constituted on July 7. .