Parliament of the Balearic Islands

The Parliament of the Balearic Islands (Catalan: Parlament de les Illes Balears; Spanish: Parlamento de las Islas Baleares) is the unicameral autonomous parliament of the Balearic Islands, one of the autonomous communities of Spain. The Parliament, composed of 59 elected seats, is located in the city of Palma, on the island of Majorca.

Parliament of the Balearic Islands Parlament de les Illes Balears
Balearic Islands unicameral legislature
Type
Type	Spanish regional legislature
Houses	Unicameral
Leadership
President (Speaker)	Gabriel Le Senne, Vox since 20 June 2023
Vice President	Mauricio Rovira, PP since 20 June 2023
Second Vice President	Mercedes Garrido, PSIB since 20 June 2023
Secretary	Misericordia Sugrañes, PP since 20 June 2023
Second Secretary	Pilar Costa, PSIB since 20 June 2023
President of the Balearic Islands	Marga Prohens, PP since 7 July 2023
Opposition Leader	Iago Negueruela, PSIB since 24 July 2023
Structure
Seats	59
Political groups	Government (25)   PP (25) Supported by (1)   Sa Unió (1) Opposition (32)   PSIB (18)   Vox (7)   Més (4)   MxMe (2)   Podem (1)   Independent (1)[a]
Length of term	4 years
Elections
Last election	28 May 2023
Meeting place
The old El Cercle Mallorquí building, home of the Balearic Parliament.
Website
www.parlamentib.cat

Precedents

Parliamentary Assembly of the Balearic Islands (1977–1978)

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Balearic Islands (Catalan: Assemblea de Parlamentaris de les Illes Balears) was an unofficial provisional body serving as pre-autonomic representation from 30 July 1977. It was composed by the eleven elected deputies and senators in the 1977 general election. Additionally, on 13 June 1978, the pre-autonomic regime decree installed the new Inter-island General Council, and two more representatives from Menorca and two more from the Pityusic Islands were elected. The President was Jeroni Albertí, member of the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD). When the Inter-island General Council was constituted on 24 July 1978, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Balearic Islands was dissolved.^[1][2]

The composition of the Assembly was defined by the 1977 general election results in the Balearic Islands, which were the following:

Parliamentary Assembly of the Balearic Islands
(30 July 1977 – 24 July 1978)

Parties		Dep	Senators			Total
			Mall	Men	I–F
	UCD	4	2	1	0	7
	PSOE	2	1	0	0	3
	AP	0	0	0	1	1
Total		6	3	1	1	11
Sources[3][4]

Inter-island General Council (1978–1983)

The 1978 Spanish Constitution anticipated the organisation of the State in Autonomous Communities. The different historic regions and nationalities could access to the autonomy through two ways; the so-called fast way (article 151) and the so-called slow or common way (article 143). During the process of achievement, the province or provinces could request to the Congress of Deputies the regime of preautonomy, as a transition period from the centralism to the self-government. On 13 June 1978 the Inter-island General Council (Catalan: Consell General Interinsular), preautonomous body for the Balearic Islands, was constituted by royal decree.^[5] It substituted the Provincial Council of the Balearics and possessed some of the basic competences in health and culture, although its main function was drafting a Statue of Autonomy for the archipelago. On a 17 July 1978 decree, the election of its members was defined.^[6] On 1 March 1983 the Statue of Autonomy of the Balearic Islands came into effect, and the Inter-island General Council disappeared, being replaced by the Government of the Balearic Islands.^[7]

During the five years of its existence, the institution had two presidents. Jeroni Albertí (UCD) resigned in 1982 before participating in the foundation of Majorcan Union (UM).^[8] The Menorcan Francesc Tutzó (UCD), who had been the vice-president, replaced Albertí, and governed the body until the 1983 regional election.^[9]

Membership

Seats	Island Constituencies[b]
33	Mallorca
13	Menorca
12	Ibiza
1	Formentera

Results of the elections to the Parliament of the Balearic Islands

Deputies in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands since 1983
Key to parties   EUIB   EU–EV   Podemos   United We Can–EUIB   PSM   PSM–PSI   PSM–EU   PSM–EN   PSM–ENE   PSM–EN   EVIB   Pacte+COP   Bloc   MpM   Més   GxF+PSOE   PSOE–ExC   PSOE–PxE   PSIB–PSOE   CIM   FIEF   El Pí   AIPF   CDS   PDL   UM   UIM–IM   Cs   PP–UM   Sa Unió   PP   CP   AP–PL   Vox
Election	Distribution	President
1983	2 2 21 1 1 6 21	Gabriel Cañellas (AP)
1987	2 2 21 5 4 25
1991	2 3 21 1 1 31	Gabriel Cañellas (PP)
1995	3 1 6 16 2 1 30	Gabriel Cañellas (PP)
		Cristòfol Soler (PP)
		Jaume Matas (PP)
1999	3 5 7 13 3 28	Francesc Antich (PSIB–PSOE)
2003	2 4 5 15 3 1 29	Jaume Matas (PP)
2007	1 4 6 16 3 1 28	Francesc Antich (PSIB–PSOE)
2011	1 4 1 4 14 35	José Ramón Bauzá (PP)
2015	10 3 6 1 14 3 2 20	Francina Armengol (PSIB–PSOE)
2019	6 2 4 1 19 3 5 16 3
2023	1 2 4 18 1 25 8	Marga Prohens (PP)

Presidents of the Parliament of the Balearic Islands

Name (Birth–Death)		Term of office			Legislature	Political Party
		Took office	Left office	Days
Parliamentary Assembly of the Balearic Islands
	Jeroni Albertí Picornell (1927–2024)	30 July 1977	24 July 1978	359	Pre-autonomic	Union of the Democratic Centre
Inter-island General Council
	Jeroni Albertí Picornell (1927–2024)	24 July 1978	27 September 1982	1526	Pre-autonomic	Union of the Democratic Centre
	Francesc Tutzó Bennàsar (b. 1940)	27 September 1982	10 June 1983	256
Parliament of the Balearic Islands
	Antoni Cirerol Thomàs (1926–2015)	10 June 1983[10]	14 April 1987[11]	1404	I (1983–1987)	People's Alliance
	Jeroni Albertí Picornell (1927–2024)	31 July 1987[12]	2 April 1991[13]	1341	II (1987–1991)	Majorcan Union
	Cristòfol Soler Cladera (b. 1956)	20 June 1991[14]	4 April 1995[15]	1416	III (1991–1995)	People's Party
		22 June 1995[16]	24 July 1995[17]		IV (1995–1999)
	Joan Huguet Rotger (b. 1954)	31 July 1995[18]	20 April 1999[19]	1359
	Antoni Diéguez Seguí (b. 1954)	13 July 1999[20]	4 August 1999	22	V (1999–2003)	Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands
	Maximilià Morales Gómez (1948–2017)	4 August 1999[21]	1 April 2003[22]	1336		Majorcan Union
	Pere Rotger Llabrés (b. 1951)	19 June 2003[23]	3 April 2007[24]	1384	VI (2003–2007)	People's Party
	Maria Antònia Munar Riutort (b. 1955)	26 June 2007[25]	5 March 2010[26]	983	VII (2007–2011)	Majorcan Union
	Aina Rado Ferrando (1947–2017)	9 March 2010[27]	29 March 2011[28]	385		Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands
	Pere Rotger Llabrés (b. 1951)	8 June 2011[29]	14 December 2012[30]	555	VIII (2011–2015)	People's Party
	Margalida Duran Cladera (b. 1967)	18 December 2012[31]	31 March 2015[32]	833
	María Consuelo Huertas Calatayud (b. 1959)	19 June 2015[33]	25 January 2017[34]	586	IX (2015–2019)	We Can
	Baltasar Picornell Lladó (b. 1977)	14 February 2017[35]	20 June 2019	856
	Vicenç Thomàs Mulet (b. 1958)	20 June 2019[36]	20 June 2023	1461	X (2019–2023)	Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands
	Gabriel Le Senne (b. 1977)	20 June 2023[37]	Incumbent	552	XI (2023–)	Vox

See also

• President of the Balearic Islands

Notes

1. Xisco Cardona left Vox in 2023
2. Since 1987

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