Parliamentary involvement in public positions appointments

Abstract

Among the most novel functions developed by parliaments is their intervention in the appointment of authorities and public offices, a participation that is justified by the granting of democratic legitimacy to those appointed, in the exercise of the function of control and as a manifestation of the political direction as a mission of the assemblies. In Spain, parliamentary intervention is provided for by the Constitution for certain constitutional bodies or bodies of constitutional relevance, intervention which in practice has given rise to the main problem of blockages in the renewal of the same. On the other hand, there is another series of very heterogeneous cases established more recently by various laws in which very different degrees of intervention of the Congress of Deputies or of both Chambers are foreseen.