Relaciones entre Cortes Generales y Gobierno: sobre la investidura del Presidente del Gobierno y los mecanismos de exigencia de la responsabilidad política (1978-2016) // Relations between Parlamient (Cortes Generales) and Government: the investiture of the President of the Government and the mechanisms of requirement for political responsibility

• Main Author: María Isabel Álvarez Vélez
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia 2018-04-01
• Series: Revista de Derecho Político
• Subjects: Constitución; relaciones Gobierno-Cortes Generales; investidura del presidente; cuestión de confianza; moción de censura; Constitution; relations between the Government and the Cortes Generales; investiture of the President; the vote of confidence
• Online Access: http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/derechopolitico/article/view/21959

Resumen: El presente estudio se centra en las relaciones Gobierno-Cortes Generales, relaciones esenciales en un sistema parlamentario como el nuestro. Se aborda un análisis de los diferentes procedimientos de investidura que han seguido los Presidentes del Gobierno desde 1979 hasta la actualidad. Junto a ello se reflexiona acerca de la viabilidad de los mecanismos de exigencia de la responsabilidad política y las escasa ocasiones en las que se ha utilizado. Abstract: In the present study focuses on the relations Government-Cortes Generales, relations essential in a parliamentary system like ours. It analyze of the different investiture procedures that has been followed by the Presidents of the Government from 1979 to the present. In addition to this, we reflect on the viability of mechanisms for political responsibility and the few occasions in which they have been used. Summary: I. Focus of the topic: the importance of relations between the Government and the Cortes Generales in a parliamentary system as the spanish constitution of 1978. II. The invest process of the president of the Government through different legislatures. III. About the effectiveness of the mechanisms of the requirement of political responsibility: the vote of confidence and the motion of censure. IV. To recapitulate.