The BOE publishes the dissolution of the Cortes and the decision for elections on July 23

The Official State Gazette (BOE) has printed the royal decree dissolving Congress and the Senate and calling common elections for July 23.

The decree enters into power immediately, so immediately the Cortes will likely be dissolved till August 17, the day on which the ensuing chambers will meet at 10:00 a.m. in constitutive classes and the XV legislature will likely be constituted.

According to the royal decree, the electoral marketing campaign will final 15 days: it can start at zero hours on Friday, July 7, the pageant of San Fermín, and can finish at twenty-four hours on the twenty first.

Pursuant to article 162 of the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG), 52 electoral constituencies are established, which correspond to every of the fifty Spanish provinces, along with the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.

On July 23, 350 deputies will likely be elected, with Madrid because the province with the most important variety of seats (37), the identical as within the earlier 2019 name, adopted by Barcelona (32), Valencia (16) -which could have yet another than within the final common elections- and Seville and Alicante with 12 seats.

According to the royal decree, in every provincial constituency 4 senators will likely be elected, within the island constituencies three will likely be elected in Gran Canaria, Mallorca and Tenerife and one in Ibiza-Formentera, Menorca, Fuerteventura, Gomera, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma.

The autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla every elect two senators.

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