Andalusian regional elections 2016

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The Andalusian Parliament is one of the four Spanish regional legislatures, including also Basque, Catalonian and Galician that can request independent elections.

The parliament has the following responsibilities: to elect he President of Andalusia;To pass the Budget of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia;Andalusian Chambers of Commerce and other institutions mostly financed by public funds;To pass the Andalusian regional legislation in the business of its competence; to control the action of the Andalusian Regional Government Administration and the autonomous agencies, public companies and all other bodies answerable to it. Such as the Local Authorities in the Andalusian territory, as well as the autonomous agencies and public companies answerable to them,etc.

The Andalusian Parliament consists of 109 Members that have four year terms in proportional party lists applying the D'Hondt method in eight constituencies, being each one of the Andalusian provinces.

If over five MPs are elected for any party they will form a Parliamentary Group. Some of the parties that have taken part in the parliament so far are Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), United Left (IU), People's Party (PP).