The socialist senator for Lanzarote, Manuel Fajardo Palarea, has been elected this Thursday as fourth secretary of the Senate, an institution that will be presided over by the popular Pedro Rollán.
The election of the senator for Lanzarote took place on Thursday morning, during the constitution of the Upper House and by nominal and secret vote. Also, the autonomous senator for the Community of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, and the socialist senator for Córdoba, María Ángeles Luna, have been elected second vice president and third secretary of the Senate, respectively.
Manuel Fajardo Palarea was born on March 4, 1960. He has a degree in Law from the University of La Laguna in 1982. Substitute Prosecutor in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura (1983). Practicing lawyer (1984 -2019).
He has been insular secretary of the PSOE Lanzarote (2000-2008) and member of the Regional Executive of the PSOE of the Canary Islands (2000-2015).
He has been councilor of the Island Council of Lanzarote (2003-2007) and vice president of the Island Council of Lanzarote (2005-2006). Subsequently, he was Deputy Minister of Justice of the Government of the Canary Islands (2015-2016). Senator elected for Lanzarote in the XIII and XIV Legislatures. In the latter, he has been First Secretary of the Senate Board.
After the last general elections on July 23, Francisco Manuel Fajardo has renewed his act as senator elected for Lanzarote and will be part of the Senate Board as Fourth Secretary.
PSOE Senators from the Canary Islands acquire full status
Likewise, Ramón Morales Quesada and Marta Saavedra Doménech, senators elected for Gran Canaria, together with Pedro Manuel Martín Domínguez and Marta Arocha Correa,elected for Tenerife, and Paloma Hernández Cerezo and Kilian Sánchez San Juan, elected, respectively, for Fuerteventura and La Palma, all of them present on the lists that the PSOE presented to the Senate in the Canary Islands in the legislative elections of the past July 23, have acquired this Thursday their full status as senators after promising to abide by the Constitution before the Plenary of the Upper House.
Also, José Antonio Valbuena Alonso, who occupies his seat in the Upper House representing the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands, has acquired his full status as senator.
Prior to this moment, an Age Table has been constituted, presided over by the oldest senator among those present, in this case by the socialist senator for Girona,Martí Sans Pairuto, (1946) who has been accompanied as secretaries by the four youngest senators, two of them also from the Socialist Parliamentary Group: Jan Pomes López(1996) and Mario Soler Santos (1995) senators for Lleida and Tarragona, respectively.
They have been the ones who have directed the constitutive process of the Senate, with the election, by nominal and secret vote, of the members of the Board that will preside over the Upper House during the XV Legislature.
Once this act has been completed, the parliamentarians have been called, one by one, by the president of the Chamber to, as is required, take a declaration of compliance before a copy of the Magna Carta.
Once this procedure has been completed, the Canarian senators have taken possession of their seats in the bench that the Socialist Group occupies in the hemicycle.
