Mercosur Parliament

Parlamento del Mercosur
Parlamento do Mercosul
17th Mercosur Parliament
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
Leadership
President
Mario Colman, PN
since 26 June 2023
Vice Presidents
Cecilia Britto, FdT
Celso Russomanno, R
Tomás Bittar, ANR-PC
Faustino Ollisco, MAS-IPSP
Structure
Seats108 MPs
Political groups
Argentina (43)
  •   UP (20)
  •   LLA (15)
  •   JxC (6)
  •   HNP (1)
  •   PER (1)

Bolivia (9)

Brazil (20)

Paraguay (18)

Uruguay (18)

Elections
Last election
Argentine: 2023
Paraguay: 2013
Meeting place
Montevideo, Uruguay
Website
parlamentomercosur.org

The Mercosur Parliament (Spanish: Parlamento del Mercosur, Portuguese: Parlamento do Mercosul), known also as Parlasur, or Parlasul, is the parliamentary institution of the Mercosur trade bloc. It is composed of 81 MPs, 18 from each member states of the bloc – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – and 9 from applying member Venezuela. Associate members – Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru – may also hold seats in the Parliament, but with no voting powers.

History

The creation of the Mercosur Parliament traces back to a 2002 process of establishing bodies and procedures aimed at the institutionalization and political autonomy of the bloc.

During the XXVII Meeting of Mercosur Heads of State on 17 December 2004, at Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, the Common Market Council (CMC) instructed the Joint Parliamentary Commission (CPC) to write a protocol establishing the Mercosur Parliament, recommending its completion until the end of 2006. The CPC created the project in advance and on 9 December 2005, the presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay signed the Constitutive Protocol of the Mercosur Parliament, creating the new body.

The first session of the Parliament should have been held before 31 December 2006, but it was only held on 7 May 2007, replacing the CPC. In June 2008, the MPs held their first parliamentary session outside the Mercosur headquarters in Montevideo, on the city of San Miguel de Tucumán, where the XXXV Meeting of Mercosur Heads of State was also being held.

Members

The representatives of the 1st Mercosur Parliament were chosen among nominated members of the national parliaments from the bloc. Their mandates expired on 31 December 2010.

Starting with the 2008 Paraguayan general elections, members of the Parliament were directly elected. It was expected that Brazilians would be the next to elect their representatives through direct vote, during the Brazilian 2010 general elections, and Argentines, in the Argentine 2011 general elections, but both elections were not held. The first simultaneous election was expected to occur in 2015. Adriana Pichardo is the incumbent deputy of the Parliament.[1][2]

Now, the deadline for every Mercosur member to hold direct elections was delayed to 2020.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Adriana Pichardo Bello". Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  2. ↑ "PICHARDO BELLO, Adriana". Parlamento del Mercosur. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  3. ↑ "Parlasul adia eleições diretas de parlamentares do Mercosul para 2020" (in Portuguese). Câmara dos Deputados. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2015.

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