Talk:Cortes Generales

history
This article has only a history through 1978, and no other information about the Cortes itself. The Spanish article es:Cortes Generales seems to be useful, but I'm not fluent enough in Spanish to translate it. --Closeapple 18:55, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I have added a section about the cortes nowadays. It is stubby, but better than nothing. I'll try to expand it later. --Estradin 08:16, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Tercios
Weren't the Francoist Cortes "elected" instead of appointed by Franco? I remember something about tercios ("thirds"): -- Error 22:44, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * One third by family heads.
 * one syndical third by Falange.
 * One third by corporations (colegios profesionales), universities, African tribal authorities,...
 * In fact, they were, but the candidates were appointed by the regime (I mean, there were no political parties as we know them, not even a soviet-like state party). You had then the opportunity to choose between Mr. A, appointed by the regime, and Mr. B, appointed by the regime-loyal Syndicate. Habbit 23:20, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Type Os
This page is replete with grammatical errors; I suggest the author revise and even do a spell check.

Senate
The article says that the Spanish Senate appeared during the Habsburg's ruling time, but actually didn't. Moreover, during this period neither noblemen nor clergymen were called to the Cortes, as far as I know. Anyway, I think the Senate appeared during the 19th<br century, but I'm not sure of this. I think it should be changed. --85.57.71.223 19:49, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Cortes of the Kingdom of Leon were the first parliament in Spain
The Cortes of Leon (1188) were the first parliament in Spain. In 1188 Leon was an independent kingdom. Leon was not united to Castile. The kingdom of Leon celebrated some Cortes after that. In addition, Leon's Spanish Parliament was more independent that those of Castile, which they demonstrated to be very much docile with regard to the authority of the Kings. Leon's Cortes are the first sample of parlamentarism in Western Europe according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.109.32.34 (talk) 12:06, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

History Section Inaccuracy
The Icelandic Althing was founded in 930 and is the oldest Parliament in Western Europe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althing —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.82.97.197 (talk) 05:24, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, there were others before this if the Leonese one even counts. Seems very dubious but probably need a central discussion somewhere to resolve it and which sources to respect and which incomplete/biased ones to ignore. — Llywelyn II   09:22, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

History Section bias
The language used in the Second Republic History section is far from neutral. It's clearly written from a right-wing perspective, and seeks to blame the left for the Spanish Civil War. This should probably be changed. 217.35.132.93 (talk) 10:04, 27 July 2009 (UTC) Alasdair

Rubberstamp in section "The Imperial Cortes (16th-17th centuries)"
"Rubber stamp" is an expression not coined before 1881, and not used in the sense of which it is here presented, before 1919 - surely, there must be a more appropriate term! Please fix, whoever has time and power to do so. ~ JJ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjjjc (talk • contribs) 07:44, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

translation
Why is this name left untranslated when the translation, general court, could not be more straightforward? There are even examples of this phrase applied in the same sense, such as the Massachusetts General Court. Jergas (talk) 18:01, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * ≠ Only use English words. — Llywelyn II   09:22, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Article is all wrong and needs to be redone from scratch
This article is a total and complete mess and mostly wrong. It should be entirely redone or just deleted. One only has to go to the Spanish article Cortes Generales to see this one has nothing to do with it. There was no such thing as Cortes Generales before the 1978 Constitution. Furthermore, before the 18th century there was no such thing as a Kingdom of Spain or a political entity called Spain. There were separate kingdoms, mainly Castille and Aragon, in a personal union but each had and retained their separate end different entity and political systems. The organization, power and functioning of the Cortes of Castille were very different from the Cortes of Aragon which were themselves composed of regional Cortes. I do not think the article is salvageable as it is. It would be best to start from scratch with information from the Spanish article. GS3 (talk) 22:02, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
 * This is from almost a decade ago and is still true. It just seems like no one is interested in wading through the Spanish sources to create Cortes of Toledo and the rest. — Llywelyn II   09:22, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Dumb question here
In the current Infobox, it says That Government is composed of PSOE and Confederal Left group. Why isn't "Confederal Left group" in the Supported by part of the infobox? User:Tetizeraz. Send me a ✉️ ! 16:16, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Because the Confederal Left group is made up of various parties, of which those belonging to the Unidas Podemos alliance are in the government. Thus, part of the group supports the government, and another part of the group is within the government. There's nothing strange in that.  Impru 20 talk 16:55, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 * thanks for the speedy answer! User:Tetizeraz. Send me a ✉️ ! 17:22, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 * You are welcome! :)  Impru 20 talk 17:25, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

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