Adriana Lastra Fernández (born 30 March 1979 in Ribadesella ) is a Spanish politician member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party who served as the Spokesperson of the Socialist Group in the Congress of Deputies . She was also the Deputy Secretary-General of the PSOE until 18 July 2022.
34-950: Lastra is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adriana Lastra (born 1979), Spanish politician Alfonso Lastra Chárriez (1887-1946), Puerto Rican lawyer and politician Anselmo Lastra , American computer scientist Cecilio Lastra (born 1951), Spanish boxer Francisco de la Lastra (1777–1852), Chilean military officer Gabriela Lastra (born 1980), American tennis player Gladys de la Lastra (1932-2005), Panamanian musician and composer Héctor Lastra (1943–2006), Argentine writer Jonathan Lastra (born 1993), Spanish cyclist Osbaldo Lastra (born 1983), Ecuadorian footballer Pedro Lastra (born 1932), Chilean poet and essayist Ricardo Cortés Lastra , Spanish politician Rodrigo Lastra (born 1998), Argentine footballer Yolanda Lastra (born 1932), Mexican linguist [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
68-583: A constituency are required to be on the ballot and each citizen can sign only once for a party candidacy. The Electoral Board establishes the regulations for the collection of signatures. The deputies' term of office finishes four years after their election or when the Cortes are dissolved, which can take place jointly or separately with the dissolution of the Senate . Only the Monarch can dissolve Parliament on
102-425: A matter, so they can approve or reject any bill. There are 23 permanent (standing) legislative committees and 8 permanent (standing) non-legislative committees which have responsibilities for House administration. The Plenary can create additional non-legislative committees at the beginning of each legislature. The non-standing committees are created with a specific purpose and their themes and duration are determined by
136-524: A party to participate in the seat distribution for a constituency. At present, this condition applies only to Madrid and Barcelona . In March 2011, the Electoral Act was modified to require parties that are not represented either in Congress or in the Senate to collect signatures to support their candidacy to be able to run in the election. One-tenth of a percent of those registered to vote in
170-677: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Adriana Lastra Lastra was born in Ribadesella , a municipality of the Spanish region of Asturias . She started the studying cultural anthropology but she did not finish the degree. Lastra joined the Socialist Workers' Party at the age of 18 and she was appointed Secretary-General of the Socialist Youth of Asturias the following year, in 1999, being in
204-522: Is guaranteed a minimum allocation of two seats, and one seat each for Ceuta and Melilla for a total of 102 seats. The remaining 248 seats are allocated proportionally according to the population using the Hare quota . After the General Election , seats are assigned to the electoral lists in each constituency separately, using the D'Hondt method ; parties receive seats in approximate proportion to
238-634: Is presented, and the session ends when all items have been discussed. The Committees are the basic working bodies of the Congress designed to facilitate the work of the house. The committees have the same powers as the Plenary: to legislate by delegation of the plenary or at the request of the Bureau, and to check the Government by requesting information of the Administration or by requesting
272-502: Is the President of the Congress of Deputies , who is elected by the members at the first sitting of Congress after an election. The two principal bodies in Congress are parliamentary groups and parliamentary committees ( Spanish : comissiones ). All MPs are required to be members of a parliamentary group , the institutionalised form of political parties. Groups act with one voice represented by their spokesperson. In other words,
306-687: Is the lower house of the Cortes Generales , Spain's legislative branch , the upper house being the Senate . The Congress meets in the Palace of the Parliament ( Palacio de las Cortes ) in Madrid . Congress has 350 members elected from fifty-two constituencies (the fifty provinces and two autonomous cities ) using closed list D'Hondt proportional representation . Deputies serve four-year terms. The presiding officer and speaker
340-636: The President , the Bureau and the Board of Spokespersons . The President of the Congress of Deputies is the highest authority and it represents the House and it is, de facto, the whole parliament leader. As head of the Congress, it also chairs the Bureau, the Board of Spokespersons and the Permanent Deputation, and is the maximum responsible authority of the Congress's Police. The Bureau of
374-613: The Second Rajoy Government or rejecting it (the position of Sánchez) by asking the voters. The position of most of the members of the Federal Committee was to refrain and allow Mariano Rajoy to form a new government, rejecting Sánchez's request and forcing his resignation. After his resignation, a Caretaker Commission take control of the Party and Lastra publicly rejected what the Federal Committee did. She
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#1732781104951408-516: The Spanish Constitution establishes that the Congress of Deputies must be composed of at least 300, and no more than 400 deputies. At present, the house has 350 deputies which is determined by the 1985 Electoral Act . The Spanish Constitution establishes that the deputies are chosen by universal , free, equal , direct , and secret suffrage . The election is held every four years or earlier in case of snap election . The members of
442-470: The Spanish Constitution . Exercising the autonomy recognised by the Constitution to the Congress of Deputies, the house is regulated by some internal rules established by itself in 1982 and it configures different government bodies to carry the pertinent competencies out. The governing bodies of the Congress of Deputies are the bodies which under their authority the House is manage. Those bodies are
476-409: The surname Lastra . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lastra&oldid=1111009946 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
510-430: The Congress are elected by proportional representation with closed lists in each constituency. There are 52 constituencies for the Congress of Deputies corresponding to the 50 provinces of Spain and two autonomous cities ( Ceuta and Melilla ). According to Spanish electoral law, the number of seats in each constituency can change in each election and it is specified when writs of election are issued. Each province
544-508: The Congress of Deputies Margarita Robles was appointed Minister of Defence , promoting Lastra to that position, becoming the youngest person and the third woman to occupy this position in the history of the Socialist Party. She was replaced by Héctor Gómez Hernández on 8 September 2021. Congress of Deputies Supported by (32) Opposition (171) The Congress of Deputies (Spanish: Congreso de los Diputados )
578-494: The Congress of Deputies is the collective body that represents the House and manages the day-to-day of the Chamber, preparing the budget and making all the necessary decisions to allow the proper functioning of the functions of the Congress. The Board of Spokespersons of the Congress of Deputies is the collective body formed by representatives of the parliamentary groups and normally, government representatives, that establishes
612-479: The Permanent Deputation is a temporary extension of the house. The Permanent Deputation is presided by the President of the Congress . It is composed of a proportional number of deputies depending on the numerical importance of the different Parliamentary Groups. All members of the house are assigned to one of the Parliamentary Groups reflecting their party affiliation or ideology. The formation of
646-577: The Plenary. The members of the committees are chosen by the Parliamentary Groups with the number of members proportional to the number of seats in the House, which means they are not effective checks on the Government when the party in office has a parliamentary majority. Once the committees are created they must elect in their first meeting the bureau of the committee, composed of a chair, two deputy chairs and two secretaries. In practice,
680-559: The Spanish Parliament is a parliament of groups, not individual MPs who are constrained to act only as part of the group. MPs can only act autonomously when submitting oral or written questions. As a result of the 2019 general election , there were 168 female deputies or 48% of all members, making Spain the European country with the highest percentage of women in parliament, surpassing Sweden and Finland. Section 68.1 of
714-618: The agenda of the House. The working bodies of the Congress of Deputies are the Plenary, the Committees , the Permanent Deputation and the Parliamentary Groups . The Plenary is the central body of the Congress of Deputies which allows the house to exercise their choices. It is the sitting of all the members of the Parliament when half plus one of its members are attending the house. This body represents
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#1732781104951748-399: The appearance of any member of the Government or Administration. There are two types of committees: standing and non-standing. The standing committees are defined by the Congress's standing orders and non-standing committees, created by the Plenary. The standing committees examine bills and make amendments. The Plenary of the Congress can confer upon them full legislative power in relation to
782-399: The committee. The members of the subcommittees are designated by the committee. The Permanent Deputation is a body created in order to have a permanent constituted legislative power. It is responsible for safeguarding the powers of the house between the legislative sessions (January, July and August) or when their term has finished because of termination or dissolution. In these three cases,
816-413: The largest party always enjoys a clear over-representation in the distribution of chairpersons. Subcommittees can also be created by the Plenary at the request of the committees. There are two types of subcommittees, the ordinary subcommittees, the purpose of which is to discuss and report on a specific issue, and the reporting subcommittees, the purpose of which is to write a draft bill to be discussed in
850-415: The number of votes each received in the constituency. A strictly proportional system would result in fractional seats; the D'Hondt method resolves this by favoring parties receiving larger votes. For provinces that elect at least 24 deputies, the 1985 Electoral Act establishes a 3% minimum valid votes by constituency requirement (blank votes count towards the total votes, but invalid ballots do not count) for
884-474: The parliamentary groups takes place at the beginning of each legislature. The deputies (members) who cannot satisfy the rules for forming a group are placed together in their own group (called the Mixed Group) so that they can still participate in the functions of Parliament. The XV legislature of Spain started on 17 August 2023 when the Cortes Generales were constituted, once the 2023 general election
918-743: The position until 2004 when she was appointed Secretary for Social Movements and NGOs. Between 2008 and 2012 she served as Secretary for Local Policy of the Asturian Socialist Federation . In the 2007 Asturian regional election she was elected MP of the Parliament of Asturias and during that term she served as Spokesperson of the Socialist Group in the Committee for the Presidency, Justice and Equality. She
952-597: The request of the President of the Government after the deliberation of the Council of Ministers . The dissolution of the Cortes also takes place if there is a failed legislature or two months after a failed investiture session, in this case, the Sovereign dissolves the house with the countersign of the President of the Congress of Deputies . During their mandate, the deputies have some guarantees and privileges to carry their responsibilities out according to Section 97 of
986-538: The unity of the house and it works through the plenary sessions which can be ordinary or extraordinary. The ordinary sessions take place during the two meeting terms: September to December and February to June. The extraordinary sessions are convened at the request of the Prime Minister of Spain , the Permanent Council or the absolute majority of the house. In this kind of session a particular agenda
1020-528: The votes, the 39th PSOE Congress was held in which Lastra was named Deputy Secretary-General becoming second-in-command to Sánchez and Deputy Spokesperson of the Socialist Group in the Congress of Deputies . After the success of the 2018 vote of no confidence in the government of Mariano Rajoy , Pedro Sánchez was elected Prime Minister of Spain and the Leader ( Spokesperson ) of the Socialist Group in
1054-591: Was elected MP of the Congress of Deputies . She was re-elected in the 2016 general election . After the 2016 general election, the possibly of a third consecutive election was imminent and the Secretary-General Sánchez proposed to the Federal Committee of the PSOE (the executive body of the Party) the possibility of holding an Extraordinary Congress with an urgent nature to decide if they should allow
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1088-509: Was held. The building, Palacio de las Cortes , has a neoclassical style. It was designed by Narciso Pascual Colomer , and built between 1843 and 1850. It sits by the Carrera de San Jerónimo, in Madrid. The relief on the facade by sculptor Ponciano Ponzano centers on a sculpture of Spain embracing the constitutional state, represented by a woman with her arm around a young girl. Surrounding
1122-520: Was one of the decisive supports in the decision of Pedro Sánchez to attend the 2017 leadership election to regain the leadership of the PSOE and played an essential role in the campaign of the candidate, based on the rejection of the ideological project of the People's Party and the importance of the socialist bases to recover the party. After Sánchez was re-elected as Secretary-General with more than 50% of
1156-477: Was re-elected in the 2011 and 2012 regional elections . As a very close person to the newly appointed Secretary-General of the PSOE , Pedro Sánchez , she served as Secretary for Local Policy of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party . Lastra participated for the first time in the national election in 2015 , heading the list of the constituency of Asturias of the Socialist Party and she
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