10 Facts About Cortes Generales

1.

The Cortes Generales are elected through universal, free, equal, direct and secret suffrage, with the exception of some senatorial seats, which are elected indirectly by the legislatures of the autonomous communities.

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2.

The Cortes Generales are composed of 615 members: 350 Deputies and 265 Senators.

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3.

Institutions in charge of enforcing the decisions of the Imperial Cortes Generales was the Diputacion General de Cortes Generales, a body of representatives elected by the different estates of the realm.

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4.

Cortes Generales existed in each of Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia and Navarre.

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5.

The Cortes Generales found refuge in the fortified, coastal city of Cadiz.

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6.

General Cortes Generales were assembled in Cadiz, but since many provinces could not send representatives due to the French occupation, substitutes were chosen among the people of the city.

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7.

Cortes Generales finally received a French army which only met resistance in the liberal cities, but easily crushed the National Militia and forced many liberals to exile to, ironically, France.

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8.

The leftist minority in the Cortes Generales then pressed Alcala Zamora for a dissolution, arguing that the uprising were the consequence of social rejection of the right-wing government.

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9.

From November 1936 to October 1937, the Cortes Generales were held at Valencia City Hall, which was still being used for its local purposes at the same time.

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10.

Cortes Generales are a bicameral parliament composed of a lower house and an upper house .

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