The Sun Never Sets In Spain - Chapter 210

The first to stand up were the previously oppressed nobles.

At this time, there is absolutely no distinction between conservatives and conservatives, and it is purely a matter of interest.

Before Alfonso set up state-owned enterprises, reformed manors, established political parties, established shadow troops… I don’t know how many people were provoked by this one after another.

On July 5th, at a regular meeting of the House of Lords, everyone was discussing social issues in the western interior. If approved, the Autonomous Region of Extremadura will be allowed to establish public-funded orphanages.

At present, orphanages in Spain are basically established by private individuals and churches, and the state has not paid attention to this aspect.

If the bill succeeds, it would be considered a small step in public welfare.

However, it would be a big mistake to think that Parliament is still useful because of this. Because this is the order in which the proposal was introduced, Prime Minister Campos approved it – proposed by the House of Commons – passed by the House of Lords.

Exactly the opposite of the order it should be.

In the past two years, the parliament has been living like this, and everyone has become a response to the cabinet.

No way, although this legacy of the upper and lower house system has not been reformed by legislation for the time being, but after the establishment of the Progressive Guard, they have lost most of their powers.

None of these nobles, priests and princes in the House of Lords dared to claim their innocence.

Motions are rejected in the morning, and people are taken away in the evening.

This is what really happened when Spain was just unified. After two years, no one dared to touch this trouble.

Just when everyone thought that this day would pass so mediocrely again, Speaker Bustillo suddenly recited the next topic with a blank expression: the banning of the ad hoc judicial conference.

The whole place was silent.

And Bustillo didn’t seem to know what he had done, and he didn’t ask for help from his assistants, so he read down as usual without realizing it: “After two years of reforms, the parliament has re-absorbed seven justices, some More than half of the MPs are licensed as lawyers…”

But the following people had no time to listen to what he was talking about, and the members exchanged glances quickly:

“Did you propose it?”

“no.”

“Have you been informed in advance?”

“no.”

…

Soon, except for some members of the People’s Party and the Citizens’ Party, it was confirmed that everyone knew nothing about it.

Then things are obvious – this is the People’s Party who took the lead to regain the lost judicial power.

The reason is very simple, because Speaker Bustillo is the former leader of the People’s Party. After being elected as Speaker, he quit the People’s Party, but from the current situation, he is still in line with the original party.

Offstage, some members of the Progressive Party couldn’t help but started to communicate.

There was panic on their faces because it was clearly their fault.

From the perspective of the convening process of the parliament, it is the responsibility of the parliamentary staff to inform the members of the discussion in advance, even if it is a regular meeting without a specific theme.

But in the past two years, the parliament has not done anything serious, which has caused everyone to gradually ignore this issue.

Or rather, the rule was rarely enforced, even when Queen Isabella was still on the throne.

After all, it wasn’t an era when you just sent an email. There were hundreds of people in the House of Nobility, and the composition was complicated. Some were party members, some were not, and they lived far away from each other.

With the frequency of meetings, it is really necessary to have a notification in place, which is quite a lot of work.

Gradually, everyone is tacit, and only major events that are difficult to solve will be notified in advance and prepared.

It’s too late to investigate, this matter can be blamed on the staff, and has nothing to do with the speaker himself.

As for judicial power, before Alfonso ascended the throne, the House of Peers was also the Supreme Court.

This is not difficult to understand, because the justices themselves are mostly of noble origin, and have already stood at the top of a certain part of Spain’s power.

Such people can easily be absorbed into the House of Nobles. Over time, cases that cannot be resolved by the courts below will be handed over to the House of Nobles for approval.

Not only Spain, but many other bicameral countries in this era.

Alfonso realized that it was impossible to do this. Although he did not directly resolve the parliament because he was unable to free up his hands at the time, he still took out the justices and re-established a small department of less than 100 members of the Interim Judicial Conference.

Everyone knows that the king wants to revisit the constitution, so this department has not changed much in the past two years, and it is still nominally the judicial post of the temporary aristocratic house.

Speaking of it now, the parliament has absorbed several judicial talents in the past two years, and I am afraid this idea has long been in mind.

Junkras, vice-chairman of the Progressive Party, complained a lot, but he couldn’t hide from others.

He made two mistakes in this matter. First, he did not discover Bustillo’s prodigal ambitions in time.

For the first two years, Bustillo was as neutral as his identity called for, not siding with any faction.

So everyone didn’t think about changing the speaker, and they were just a tool person – the speaker doesn’t belong, and it’s hard to talk about having any real power alone.

The second is that he did not act in accordance with the regulations, otherwise theoretically, he could know the agenda of the parliament in advance.

If he doesn’t handle this matter well, his political career will probably come to an end, and he can only go back and live his life as a little earl…

“There’s still a chance… Let’s reject the matter in front of us first, and look at it later.” Junkras thought to himself.

Bustillo dared to speak publicly about this matter in the parliament.

He can’t take care of things outside for the time being, but it’s still okay to stir up the yellow.

He was about to wait patiently to listen to Bustillo finish the story, and then speak one by one according to the procedure.

An earl sitting next to him, who was also a member of the Progressive Party, suddenly pulled his sleeve and looked at him helplessly.

The other party whispered: “Don’t wait, Mr. Earl, the speaker can designate who to speak, so let’s just ignore the rules for such a big matter.”

Junkras was right when he thought about it, he immediately stood up to interrupt Bustillo’s chatter, and said loudly:

“The matter of banning the temporary judicial meeting has not been notified in place, and we will leave it to the next time. Today’s meeting will end here.”

“I haven’t finished speaking yet, please sit down first. If you have any questions, I will appoint you to speak later.” Bustillo smiled playfully.

“Stop immediately! Aren’t you afraid of the guards?” Junkras said angrily.

Bustillo’s expression changed and he said, “Really? Baron Arias, have you received the news?”

“Ah?” The member of the People’s Party he pointed to, Baron Arias, wanted to cry without tears. Although he received the news in advance, he didn’t want to be a standout.

Under everyone’s eyes, he still bite the bullet and said, “I got it.”

Then, Bustillo pointed to a few people, either the People’s Party or the Civic Party, and they all said they had received it.