MADRID, 16 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The constitutive session of the new Congress that emerged from the general elections on July 23 will be led this Thursday by a Table of Ages made up entirely of Socialist deputies and which will be chaired by the president of the party and until now vice president of the Senate, Cristina Narbona.
The Regulations of the Congress establish that this table will be headed by the oldest person of the 350 that make up the chamber, who will be assisted by the two youngest, as secretaries.
Thus, the presidency of this body has fallen to the former Minister of the Environment and now elected by Madrid Cristina Narbona, who returns to Congress, where she won a seat for the first time in 1996.
Narbona, 72, will succeed Agustín Zamarrón, also a socialist, in this position, known as ‘the PSOE’s Valle Inclán’ for his physical resemblance to the author of ‘Luces de Bohemia’, who presided over the last two constitutive sessions, in 2019, but he no longer stood for the July elections.
The veteran socialist will have the help of two colleagues who are opening seats. They are Ada Santana, the youngest deputy, elected by Las Palmas and general secretary of the Socialist Youth of the Canary Islands, who is 25 years old, and the deputy for Barcelona Ferran Verdejo, who is 26 and is secretary of the Youth Organization of the PSC and spokesperson for his party in the Cardona City Council since 2019.
The constitutive session of Congress will begin this Thursday at ten in the morning under the presidency of Narbona. The two secretaries of the Board of Age will be in charge of reading the names of those elected and the contentious-electoral appeals filed.
Then the voting for the election of the members of the Board of the Chamber will begin, which will be by means of a ballot paper and a ballot box. First, the person who will occupy the Presidency of the Chamber will be elected, and then, in two consecutive rounds, the four vice-presidents and the four secretaries will be appointed.
