MADRID, Aug. 17 (EUROPA PRESS) – Congress will start the XV Legislature this Thursday with half of the 350 deputies opening their seats and with an average age higher than the previous one. Specifically, the largest age group is that of those between 51 and 60 years of age, in which a total of 142 elected representatives are concentrated.
According to the data provided to Europa Press by the institution, there are nine deputies under 30 years of age, 45 who are between 31 and 40, and 106 who are between 41 and half a century. This was the largest group in the legislature that is about to end but now the 142 who are between 51 and 60 years old have taken over. Above that age, 48 people have been counted.
The new Chamber can be divided into two halves if what is taken into account is the previous experience in the Carrera de San Jerónimo, since 175 were elected for the first time in the elections of July 23 and the other 175 have already had a seat before. Specifically, 145 have already served as deputies in the XIV legislature and another 30 return to a Chamber in which they had a seat in previous stages.
In addition, there will be 153 women for 197 men, 43.1% female compared to 56.9% male. That is to say, the Chamber complies with parity since neither of the two sexes exceeds 60% nor is it below 40%, although now there will be one less deputy at the beginning of this legislature.
Regarding the ‘short’ legislature of 2019, Congress has 13 fewer deputies. That was the most equal legislature in history with 166 deputies. Of course, now it exceeds the number of the XII and XI legislatures, in which it started with 138 and 139 women sitting in the chamber, respectively.
Of the parliamentary groups that will form the four national parties, Sumar’s will be the one with the proportionally greater female representation and the one that is closest to 50%. Specifically, 15 of the 31 people who will make it up are women, 48.4%.
It is followed by the PSOE, with 58 women among its 121 representatives, 47.9%. Then comes the PP, with a total of 59 women out of its 137 deputies, 43%. For its part, Vox will have the representation of nine women in the Congress of Deputies, 27.2% of its 33 representatives.
In addition, ERC has four women among its seven deputies; in Junts they are three by four men; EH Bildu will be the only strictly equal group with three men and three women and in the PNV there will be a masculine majority (three men out of five representatives). The only deputy from the Canary Islands Coalition is a woman, while the Galician Nationalist Bloc and Unión del Pueblo Navarro will be represented by men.
