Senate of Spain

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chamber of the Cortes Generales upper house of parliament

The Senate of Spain is the upper chamber of the Spanish Parliament, responsible for territorial representation and legislative review within the country's bicameral system.

Aliases (3)

Spanish Senate ×2
Senado de España ×1
Senate of Spain in most legislative matters ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	chamber of the Cortes Generales → upper house of parliament →
buildingStyle	neoclassical architecture →
canBeDissolvedBy	King of Spain →
canVeto	ordinary laws →
capital	Madrid →
composition	directly elected senators → senators appointed by autonomous communities →
constitutionalArticle	Title III of the Spanish Constitution →
constitutionalStatus	established by the Spanish Constitution of 1978 →
country	Spain →
currentPresidingOfficer	Pedro Rollán →
currentPresidingOfficerStartTime	2023 →
dissolutionProposedBy	Prime Minister of Spain →
hasJurisdictionOver	Kingdom of Spain →
hasLowerHouse	Congress of Deputies →
hasParliamentaryGroup	People's Party group in the Senate → Spanish Socialist Workers Party group in the Senate → various regional and mixed groups →
inception	1834 →
languageUsed	Spanish → co-official languages of Spain in certain sessions →
legislativeBodyOf	Spain →
legislativeTerm	4 years →
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Community of Madrid → Madrid → Spain →
meetingPlace	Plenary chamber of the Senate →
memberOf	Inter-Parliamentary Union →
minimumAgeOfMembers	18 years →
numberOfMembers	265 →
officialName	Senado → Senado de España →
partOf	Cortes Generales →
precededBy	Estamento de Próceres →
presidingOfficer	President of the Senate of Spain →
role	approval of state of alarm, exception and siege → control of the Government of Spain → legislative review → participation in constitutional reform → territorial representation →
seat	Palacio del Senado →
sharesLegislativePowerWith	Congress of Deputies →
supervises	Government of Spain →
typeOfLegislature	bicameral legislature →
vetoCanBeOverriddenBy	Congress of Deputies →
votingSystem	indirect election by regional legislatures → open list partial block voting →
website	https://www.senado.es →

Referenced by (19)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Kingdom of Spain → Spain → Spanish government →	upperHouse
Ceuta → Vox →	parliamentaryRepresentation
President of the Senate of Spain →	appliesToJurisdiction
Congress of Deputies ("Senate of Spain in most legislative matters") →	canOverride
Cortes Generales →	chamberUpper
Cortes Generales →	hasPart
Congress of Deputies →	hasUpperHouse
President of the Senate of Spain →	isHighestAuthorityOf
President of the Senate of Spain →	isPresidingOfficerOf
Madrid ("Spanish Senate") →	isSeatOf
People's Party (Spain) →	legislativeBody
Fernando Primo de Rivera ("Spanish Senate") →	memberOf
Senate of Spain ("Senado de España") →	officialName
Spanish general election, April 2019 →	parliamentElected
President of the Senate of Spain →	reportsTo
President of the Senate of Spain →	represents