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Ferran Bel
Ferran Bel i Accensi (born 1 June 1965) is a Spanish economist, academic and politician from Catalonia. He is a former member of the Congress of Deputies (Spain), Congress of Deputies of Spain and the Senate of Spain. Early life Bel was born on 1 June 1965 in Tortosa, Catalonia. He was educated at San José school and Joaquim Bau Institute high school. He has a bachelor's degree in economic and business sciences and a postgraduate qualification in economics and management of local and autonomous finance from the University of Barcelona (UB). He was a research fellow at the Institut d'Estudis Autonòmics. Bel joined the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) in 1995 and was president of its local branch between 2000 and 2004 and regional president of Baix Ebre from 2004 to 2007. He was on the CDC's national council from 2004 and national executive committee from 2008. Career Bel worked as an economist at a professional firm of advisors he founded in 1991. He was associate p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congress Of Deputies (Spain)
The Congress of Deputies () is the lower house of the , Spain's legislative branch, the upper house being the Senate. The Congress meets in the Palace of the Parliament () in Madrid. Congress has 350 members elected from fifty-two constituencies (the fifty provinces and two autonomous cities) using closed list D'Hondt proportional representation. Deputies serve four-year terms. The presiding officer and speaker is the President of the Congress of Deputies, who is elected by the members at the first sitting of Congress after an election. The two principal bodies in Congress are parliamentary groups and parliamentary committees (). All MPs are required to be members of a parliamentary group, the institutionalised form of political parties. Groups act with one voice represented by their spokesperson. In other words, the Spanish Parliament is a parliament of groups, not individual MPs who are constrained to act only as part of the group. MPs can only act autonomously when sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
