SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 30. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Parliament of the Canary Islands has increased its activity in these first three years of the tenth Legislature with an increase of 27 percent in the number of initiatives presented with respect to the same period of the previous legislature –up to 20,618– and 33 percent with respect to the eighth legislature.
Thus, analyzing the data from the start of this stage in June 2019 to June 2022, it is also observed that the number of meetings has increased by 23 percent compared to the same period of the ninth legislature and 28 percent compared to to the same period of the eighth.
The president of the Chamber, Gustavo Matos, values in a note the effort made by all the parliamentary groups, “which are carrying out, with responsibility and commitment, important work despite the complicated circumstances that have had to be faced in these three years, especially from the difficulties arising from Covid and its impact on maintaining the activity”.
Based on the data, in these three years, until the beginning of June, 20,618 initiatives have been registered, of which 49 have been government decrees.
Matos recalls that the Statute of Autonomy, after the 2018 reform, introduces as a novelty the obligation of the Parliament to validate the decree laws within a period of thirty days.
In contrast, in the first three years of the ninth legislature, 16,237 initiatives were registered and a total of 15,437 in the eighth.
As for the meetings, from June 2019 to date, 1,237 have been held, of which 294 have been of the Bureau, 143 plenary sessions, 121 Board of Spokespersons and 8 of the Permanent Delegation, among others. The figure was 991 in the ninth legislature and 950 in the eighth.
Gustavo Matos affirms that this significant increase in activity “speaks very well of the democratic health of the institution” and points out that the fact that the Parliament of the Canary Islands has been able to maintain its activity during the pandemic without closing its doors for a single day has been possible thanks to the rapid reaction of the institution in terms of the necessary regulatory changes and the technological boost in record time that has been carried out.
