Solemn Opening Session Of The Cortes Generales Of The Xv Legislature In The Congress Of Deputies

MADRID, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 29: Princess Leonor and the president of the Congress, Francina Armengol, on her arrival at the Solemn Opening Session of the General Courts of the XV Legislature, in the Congress of Deputies, on November 29, 2023, in Madrid, Spain. The King opens today the fifteenth legislature in a solemn plenary session that brings together deputies and senators in Congress with the announced absence of Esquerra Republicana (ERC), Bildu and the Bloque Nacionalista Gallego. Felipe VI pronounces in this session the first political speech after the presentation of the amnesty law rejected by PP and Vox and after the pacts that the PSOE signed with ERC and Junts. The Solemn Opening of the legislature is held four months after the general elections of July 23, in which the current deputies and senators were elected. The Solemn Opening of the legislature is held four months after the general elections of July 23, in which the current deputies and senators were elected. (Photo By Raul Terrel/Europa Press via Getty Images)