5th Parliament of the Romance Republic

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5th Parliament of the Romance Republic
4th Parliament 6th Parliament
Overview
Term3 July 2019 (2019-07-03) – 10 January 2020 (2020-01-10)
Election29 June 2019
GovernmentClero I
Chamber of Deputies
Members20
PresidentRaimon Quiroga Giró
Vice-PresidentCarme Tomàs Tió
Prime MinisterEstevan Clero Espina
Leader of the OppositionXavier Ferreira Gomes

The 5th Parliament is the current meeting of the Parliament of the Romance Republic of the Romance Republic, with the membership determined by the results of the parliamentary election held on 29 June 2019. Parliament met for the first time on 3 July 2019. According to the Constitution of the Romance Republic, the maximum legislative term of the parliament is 6 months from the date of its first meeting.

The 5th Parliament was dissolved by President Noemí Horta i Pau on 10 January 2020 ahead of the 2020 parliamentary election.

Election

The 5th Romance general election was held on 29 June 2019. At the election the People's Party (PP) became the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies, winning 9 seats.

Party Leader % Seats +/–
People's Party Estevan Clero Espina 35.14% 8 8
Party of Social Democrats Xavier Ferreira Gomes 21.62% 5 2
Green Initiative Joan Ponente Muntó 13.51% 3 1
The Republicans Martin Albert Talló 10.81% 2 6
Christian Democratic Union Elena Cazador de León 8.11% 1 Steady
Social Liberal Party Clara Esteves Guifré 5.41% 1 1
Alliance for the Nation Bruno Moliner 2.70% 0 6

History

The new Chamber of Deputies met for the first time on 3 July 2019. For the first time, two candidates nominated themselves for the presidency meaning that there would be an election for the office.

On 2 July 2019, incumbent President of the Chamber of Deputies, Elena Cazador de León announced she would not seek re-election. Later that same day, Carme Tomàs Tió, deputy leader of the Party of Social Democrats, and Raimon Quiroga Giró of the People's Party, announced their candidacies for the position.

Quiroga was elected with the support of a right-of-centre alliance of the People's Party, Christian Democratic Union and The Republicans. Carme Tomàs Tió was elected Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies unopposed.

President of the Chamber of Deputies
Candidate Votes
Raimon Quiroga Giró PP 11
Carme Tomàs Tió PSD 9

Government

Despite gains in the election for his party and partners, Prime Minister Xavier Ferreira Gomes' Progressive Alliance fell short of the 11 seats needed to form a government. As a result, he resigned on 1 July. Shortly thereafter, President Roberto Bon e Laverde formally nominated Estevan Clero Espina as prime minister.

Prior to the election, Christian Democratic Union leader Elena Cazador de León had agreed to work with Clero's People's Party on the condition she was appointed to the Council of Ministers. Pre-election, Clero had discussed a similar arrangement with The Republicans leader Martin Albert Talló. However, whilst generally supportive of a right-of-centre alliance, he declined the opportunity and on 2 July, he and Clero announced they had reached a confidence and supply agreement.

The Clero government was approved by the Chamber of Deputies on 3 July 2019.

Party Prime Minister
Estevan Clero Espina (PP)
Votes
Approve Disapprove Abstain Total
PP 8 0 0 8
PSD 0 5 0 5
IV 0 3 0 3
ER 2 0 0 2
UDC 1 0 0 1
PSL 0 1 0 1
Total 11 9 0 20

Disqualifications, resignations and suspensions

The 5th Parliament has seen the following disqualifications, resignations and suspensions:

  • 7 August 2019 – Enrico Luiz Moreno resigned from Parliament (and left the Romance Republic micronational project) after being accused of voter fraud (voting twice in the June 2019 election). Luiz denied his resignation was an admission of guilt. His resignation left a vacancy and reduced Green Initiative to 2 seats. As new legislation allowing vacancies to be filled had not been introduced by this time, the seat remains vacant and the total membership of Parliament reduces to 19.
  • 1 December 2019 — Noemí Horta i Pau was elected President of the Romance Republic on 10 November 2019 and announced she would resign from Parliament on the morning of her inauguration, being 1 December 2019. The same day as her election, legislation came into effect that allowed vacancies in parliament to be filled from party-lists. This allowed the vacancy created by Horta's resignation to be filled by Paz Teixidor i Domènech who was ninth on the People's Party candidate list for the previous parliamentary election.

Members

Name Party Took office Left office Notes
Estevan Clero Espina PP 3 July 2019 10 January 2020 Prime Minister, Leader of PP.
Raimon Quiroga Giró PP 3 July 2019 10 January 2020 President of Parliament.
Guiomar Machado Barros PP 3 July 2019 10 January 2020 Deputy Leader of PP.
Catalina Iñíguez Herrero PP 3 July 2019 10 January 2020 Finance Minister.
Pedro Iglesias Capel PP 3 July 2019 10 January 2020 Interior Minister.
Noemí Horta i Pau PP 3 July 2019 1 December 2019 Elected President of the Romance Republic.
Alícia Mateu Bernat PP 3 July 2019 10 January 2020 Chairperson of PP.
Gonçal Tornes Chávez PP 3 July 2019 10 January 2020
Paz Teixidor i Domènech PP 1 December 2019 10 January 2020 Replaced Noemí Horta.
Xavier Ferreira Gomes PSD 3 July 2019 10 January 2020 Leader of PSD.
Carme Tomàs Tió PSD 3 July 2019 10 January 2020
Amada Luis Joven PSD 3 July 2019 10 January 2020
Cristòfor Ordóñez Domenech PSD 3 July 2019 10 January 2020
Rosalina Llobet i Junqueras PSD 3 July 2019 10 January 2020
Joan Ponente Muntó IV 3 July 2019 10 January 2020 Leader of IV.
Enrico Luiz Moreno IV 3 July 2019 7 August 2019 Resigned.
Miquela Rubió Blanco IV 3 July 2019 10 January 2020
Martin Albert Talló LR 3 July 2019 10 January 2020 Leader of LR.
Nil Chamblanc Lamarca LR 3 July 2019 10 January 2020
Elena Cazador de León UDC 3 July 2019 10 January 2020 Foreign Minister.
Clara Esteves Guifré PSL 3 July 2019 10 January 2020

Term extension and dissolution

The 5th Parliament became the first parliament to vote to extend its term under Title IV of the Constitution. Parliaments in the Romance Republic dissolve automatically 6 months after their first sitting unless dissolved earlier by the President (either by his or her own discretion or on advice of the Prime Minister). As the 5th Parliament met for the first time on 3 July, its term was set to expire on 3 January 2020 when it would be in the Christmas/New Year recess.

With a pre-Christmas election ruled out and unwilling to let Parliament expire during a recess, the Government and opposition parties agreed to extend the term of the 5th Parliament in accordance with Title IV. The opposition's support was necessary as Title IV requires the approval of three-fifths of the 20-member Parliament and the parties forming and supporting the Government held less than that total.

The bill extending the term by 10 days was introduced on 17 December and passed unamended on 19 December. Prime Minister Estevan Clero requested a dissolution of Parliament on 7 January, calling the election for 19 January. The 5th Parliament was subsequently dissolved by President Noemí Horta on 10 January.