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The president of the Congress of Deputies, also known as the president of the Cortes, is the highest authority of the Congress of Deputies of Spain, the lower house of the Cortes Generales. The President is elected by and among the incumbent members of congress (diputados).

The office was established in 1810 when the Supreme Central Junta convened the first Spain's general election to form the Cortes of Cádiz. In the first meeting of the Cortes, on 24 September 1810, the first president was elected, Ramón Lázaro de Dou y de Bassols, although Benito Ramón Hermida Maldonado held the office as acting president during the beginning of that meeting. During this time, the Cortes were a unicameral parliament and the tenure of the president of the house was 1 month. In 1814, King Ferdinand VII dissolved the parliament and abolished the 1812 Constitution, restoring absolutism. Briefly, from 1820 to 1823, the Constitution was restored against the will of the monarch and in 1823 the King abolished it again until his death in 1833, when Queen Regent Maria Christina, in order to gain the favour of the Liberals to support the reign of her daughter, Isabella II, approved the Royal Statue of 1834, creating a bicameral parliament and restoring the office. The parliament was inactive in three more times in Spanish history: from 1923 to 1927 due to the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (although he created an advisory assembly from 1927 to 1929), from 1929 to 1931 after the dictatorship and from 1939 to 1943, after the Civil War.

After 1834, none of the constitutions or the different internal rules of the Congress established a time limited to held the office, so it is understood that he or she occupies it for the time of the legislature, an idea that continues today in force. Another peculiarity of Spanish parliamentarism is the existence of the position of acting president. After every general election and before the Congress is fully constituted, the Congress' internal rules from 1834 to 1982 established that an acting president had to be elected, and, once the Congress is fully constituted, the House must ratified the appointment or elect a new president. In 1982, this position disappeared.

The current and 181st President, Meritxell Batet, was elected for the first time in May 21, 2019.^[1] She was re-elected in December 3, 2019.^[2] In both occasions, she represented Barcelona.

List of presidents[]

Since its creation in 1810, 137 people have served as president in 181 presidencies.^[3] The first president was Ramón Lázaro de Dou y de Bassols who served during the first month. The shortest presidency was that of the which was president briefly between March 19 and March 22, 1873 and the longest was that of Esteban de Bilbao Eguía serving 22 years, 6 months and 13 days. Many presidents have served in non-consecutive terms in office; The Marquess of Vega de Armijo served in five non-consecutive terms while Francisco Martínez de la Rosa and Francisco Javier Istúriz y Montero served in four. The first woman who have served as president was Luisa Fernanda Rudi Ubeda, between 2000 and 2004.

No.	Name		Party		Constituency	Term of service
-				Independent	Galicia (Santiago de Compostela)	September 24, 1810
1st		Ramón Lázaro de Dou y de Bassols		Independent	Principality of Catalonia	September 24, 1810 – October 23, 1810
2nd				Independent	Galicia (Betanzos)	October 24, 1810 – November 23, 1810
3rd				Independent	Seville (representing the Junta of Seville)	November 24, 1810 – December 23, 1810
4th				Independent	Asturias (representing the Junta of Asturias)	December 24, 1810 – January 23, 1811
5th				Independent	New Spain (Puebla de los Ángeles)	January 24, 1811 – February 23, 1811
6th				Independent	Valencia (representing the Junta of Valencia)	February 24, 1811 – March 23, 1811
7th				Independent	Extremadura	March 24, 1811 – April 23, 1811
8th				Independent	Murcia	April 24, 1811 – May 23, 1811
9th				Independent	Seville	May 24, 1811 – June 23, 1811
10th				Independent	Principality of Catalonia	June 24, 1811 – July 23, 1811
11th				Independent	New Spain (Durango)	July 24, 1811 – August 23, 1811
12th				Independent	La Mancha	August 24, 1811 – September 23, 1811
13th				Independent	Majorca (Palma de Mallorca)	September 24, 1811 – October 23, 1811
14th				Independent	Guatemala	October 24, 1811 – November 23, 1811
15th				Independent	Extremadura	November 24, 1811 – December 23, 1811
16th				Independent	Valencia	December 24, 1811 – January 23, 1812
17th				Independent	Galicia (La Coruña)	January 24, 1812 – February 23, 1812
18th				Independent	Aragón (Teruel)	February 24, 1812 – March 23, 1812
19th				Independent	Viceroyalty of Peru	March 24, 1812 – April 2, 1812†
20th				Independent	New Spain	April 2, 1812 – April 23, 1812
						April 24, 1812 – May 23, 1812
21st		José Miguel Guridi y Alcocer		Independent	New Spain (Tlaxcala)	May 24, 1812 – June 23, 1812
22nd				Independent	Aragón	June 24, 1812 – July 23, 1812
23rd				Independent	Asturias	July 24, 1812 – August 23, 1812
24th				Independent	Asturias	August 24, 1812 – September 23, 1812
25th				Independent	Cuba (La Habana)	September 24, 1812 – October 23, 1812
26th				Independent	Principality of Catalonia	October 24, 1812 – November 23, 1812
27th				Independent	Principality of Catalonia	November 24, 1812 – December 23, 1812
28th				Independent	Valencia	December 24, 1812 – January 23, 1813
29th				Independent	Gipuzkoa (Santiago de Compostela)	January 24, 1813 – February 23, 1813
30th				Independent	New Spain (Veracruz)	February 24, 1813 – March 23, 1813
31st				Independent	Asturias	March 24, 1813 – April 23, 1813
32nd				Independent	Canary Islands (Gran Canaria)	April 24, 1813 – May 23, 1813
33rd				Independent	Guatemala	May 24, 1813 – June 23, 1813
34th				Independent	Valencia	June 24, 1813 – July 23, 1813
35th				Independent	Cádiz	July 24, 1813 – August 23, 1813
36th				Independent	New Spain (Zacatecas)	August 24, 1813 – September 25, 1813
37th				Independent	Extremadura	October 1, 1813 – October 31, 1813
38th				Independent	Murcia	November 1, 1813 – January 15, 1814
39th				Independent	Salamanca	January 16, 1814 – February 15, 1814
40th				Independent	New Spain (Puebla de los Ángeles)	February 16, 1814 – February 25, 1814
41st				Independent	Salamanca	February 25, 1814 – March 31, 1814
42nd		Francisco Antonio de la Dueña y Cisneros		Independent	Principality of Catalonia	April 1, 1814 – April 30, 1814
43rd				Independent	New Spain (Puebla de los Ángeles)	May 1, 1814 – May 10, 1814
Parliament dissolved between 1814 and 1820
44th				Independent	Principality of Catalonia	July 6, 1820 – August 9, 1820
45th				Independent	La Mancha	August 9, 1820 – September 8, 1820
46th		José María Queipo de Llano Ruiz de Saravia		Independent	Asturias	September 9, 1820 – October 8, 1820
47th		José María Calatrava y Peinado		Independent	Extremadura	October 9, 1820 – November 9, 1820
48th				Independent	Murcia	February 25, 1821 – March 31, 1821
49th				Independent	New Spain	April 1, 1821 – April 30, 1821
50th				Independent	Ávila	May 1, 1821 – May 31, 1821
51st		Jose María Moscoso de Altamira Quiroga		Independent	Galicia	June 1, 1821 – June 30, 1821
52nd				Independent	Soria	September 24, 1821 – October 27, 1821
53rd		Francisco Martínez de la Rosa		Independent	Granada	October 28, 1821 – November 27, 1821
54th		Diego Clemencín		Independent	Murcia	November 28, 1821 – December 27, 1821
55th				Independent	Principality of Catalonia	December 28, 1821 – January 27, 1822
56th				Independent	La Mancha	January 28, 1822 – February 14, 1822
57th		Rafael del Riego y Florez Valdes		Independent	Asturias	February 15, 1822 – March 31, 1822
58th		Cayetano Valdés y Flores		Independent	Seville	April 1, 1822 – April 30, 1822
59th		Miguel Ricardo de Álava y Esquivel		Independent	Álava*	May 1, 1822 – May 31, 1822
60th		Álvaro Gómez Becerra		Independent	Cáceres	June 1, 1822 – June 30, 1822
61st				Independent	Principality of Catalonia	October 3, 1822 – November 6, 1822
62nd		Diego Vicente Cañas Portocarrero		Independent	Valladolid	November 7, 1822 – December 6, 1822
63rd				Independent	Málaga	December 7, 1822 – January 6, 1823
64th		Francisco Javier Istúriz y Montero		Independent	Cádiz	January 7, 1823 – February 6, 1823
65th				Independent	Granada	February 7, 1823 – February 19, 1823
66th				Independent	Burgos	February 25, 1823 – March 22, 1823
						March 23, 1823 – May 1, 1823
67th		Joaquín María Ferrer y Cafranga		Independent	Gipuzkoa (Santiago de Compostela)	May 1, 1823 – June 1, 1823
68th				Independent	Cuba	June 1, 1823 – July 6, 1823
69th				Independent	Cádiz	July 7, 1823 – August 5, 1823
70th		Álvaro Gómez Becerra		Independent	Extremadura	September 7, 1823 – September 27, 1823
Parliament dissolved between 1823 and 1834
-				Independent-Isabellinos	Murcia	July 20, 1834 – July 28, 1834
71st		Ildefonso Díez de Rivera y Muro		Progressive	Valencia	July 29, 1834 – May 29, 1835
72nd		Francisco Javier Istúriz y Montero		Moderate	Cádiz	November 12, 1835 – November 20, 1835
						November 21, 1835 – January 27, 1836
						March 17, 1836 – March 22, 1836
73rd		Antonio González González		Progressive	Badajoz	March 23, 1836 – May 23, 1836
74th		Álvaro Gómez Becerra		Progressive	Cáceres	October 17, 1836 – October 20, 1836
						October 21, 1836 – November 30, 1836
75th		Antonio González González		Progressive	Badajoz	December 1, 1836 – January 1, 1837
76th		Joaquín María Ferrer y Cafranga		Progressive	Gipuzkoa	January 2, 1837 – January 31, 1837
77th				Progressive	Gipuzkoa	February 1, 1837 – February 28, 1837
78th				Moderate	Barcelona	March 1, 1837 – March 31, 1837
79th		Pedro Antonio Acuña y Cuadros		Progressive	Jaén	April 1, 1837 – April 30, 1837
80th				Progressive	Biscay	May 1, 1837 – May 31, 1837
81st		Agustín Argüelles Álvarez González		Progressive	Madrid	June 1, 1837 – June 30, 1837
82nd		Vicente Sancho y Cobertores		Progressive	Castellón	July 1, 1837 – July 31, 1837
83rd				Moderate	Madrid	August 1, 1837 – August 31, 1837
84th				Progressive	Seville	September 1, 1837 – September 30, 1837
85th				Progressive		October 1, 1837 – October 31, 1837
86th		Joaquín María López y López		Progressive	Madrid	November 1, 1837 – November 4, 1837
87th				Moderate	Soria	November 13, 1837 – November 17, 1837
						November 18, 1837 – January 1, 1838
88th				Moderate	Soria	January 2, 1838 – January 31, 1838
89th				Moderate	Burgos	February 1, 1838 – February 15, 1838
90th				Moderate	Soria	February 16, 1838 – July 17, 1838
91st		Francisco Javier Istúriz y Montero		Moderate	Cádiz	November 9, 1838 – June 1, 1839
-				Progressive	Gipuzkoa (Santiago de Compostela)	September 1, 1839 – September 9, 1839
92nd		José María Calatrava y Peinado		Progressive	Madrid	September 10, 1839 – November 18, 1839
-		Álvaro Flórez Estrada		Progressive	Oviedo	February 18, 1840 – March 17, 1840
93rd		Francisco Javier Istúriz y Montero		Moderate	Cádiz	March 18, 1840 – October 11, 1840
-				Progressive	Oviedo	March 19, 1841 – March 27, 1841
94th		Agustín Argüelles Álvarez González		Progressive	Madrid	March 28, 1841 – August 24, 1841
95th		Pedro Antonio Acuña y Cuadros		Progressive	Soria	December 27, 1841 – December 28, 1841
						December 29, 1841 – July 16, 1842
96th		Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz		Progressive	Logroño	November 15, 1842 – January 3, 1843
-				Progressive	Albacete	April 3, 1843 – April 30, 1843
97th				Progressive	Seville	April 30, 1843 – May 26, 1843
98th		Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz		Progressive	Logroño	November 4, 1843 – November 26, 1843
99th		Pedro José Pidal		Moderate	Oviedo	November 27, 1843 – July 4, 1844
100th				Moderate	Jaén	October 17, 1844 – May 23, 1845
						December 16, 1845 – October 31, 1846
-		Modesto Cortázar y Leal de Ibarra		Progressive	Zamora	January 1, 1847 – January 20, 1847
101st				Moderate	Girona	January 21, 1847 – October 5, 1847
102nd		Alejandro Mon y Menéndez		Moderate	Oviedo	November 16, 1847 – March 26, 1848
-				Moderate	Ourense	December 16, 1848 – December 19, 1848
103rd		Luis Mayans y Enríquez de Navarra		Moderate	Valencia	December 20, 1848 – July 14, 1849
						October 30, 1849 – November 1, 1849
						November 2, 1849 – August 4, 1850
						November 1, 1850 – November 7, 1850
						November 8, 1850 – April 7, 1851
						June 1, 1851 – June 11, 1851
						June 12, 1851 – January 7, 1852
104th		Francisco Martínez de la Rosa		Moderate	Granada	December 1, 1852 – December 2, 1852
						March 1, 1853 – March 16, 1853
						March 17, 1853 – April 9, 1853
						November 19, 1853 – December 10, 1853
-				Progressive	Oviedo	November 10, 1854 – November 27, 1854
105th		Baldomero Espartero		Progressive	Logroño	November 28, 1854 – December 4, 1854
106th		Pascual Madoz		Progressive	Lleida	December 5, 1854 – January 24, 1855
107th				Progressive	Badajoz	January 25, 1855 – September 15, 1856
108th		Francisco Martínez de la Rosa		Moderate	Granada	May 1, 1857 – May 8, 1857
						May 9, 1857 – July 16, 1857
109th		Juan Bravo Murillo		Moderate	Badajoz	January 11, 1858 – May 13, 1858
110th		Francisco Martínez de la Rosa		Moderate	Granada	December 2, 1858 – December 12, 1858
						December 13, 1858 – January 27, 1860
						May 26, 1860 – September 28, 1861
						November 9, 1861 – February 7, 1862†
-		Modesto Lafuente y Zamalloa (Vice President of the Congress of Deputies)		Liberal Union	León	February 7, 1862 – February 18, 1862
111th		Alejandro Mon y Menéndez		Moderate	Oviedo	February 19, 1862 – October 31, 1862
112th				Moderate	Oviedo	December 2, 1862 – August 12, 1863
113th		Antonio de los Ríos Rosas		Liberal Union	Málaga/Cádiz	November 5, 1863 – November 24, 1863
						November 25, 1863 – June 23, 1864
114th		Alejandro de Castro y Casal		Moderate	Pontevedra	December 23, 1864 – January 4, 1865
						January 5, 1865 – February 20, 1865
-				Liberal Union	Córdoba	February 21, 1865 – March 7, 1865
115th				Moderate	Burgos	March 8, 1865 – July 12, 1865
116th		Antonio de los Ríos Rosas		Liberal Union	Málaga	December 28, 1865 – January 3, 1866
						January 4, 1866 – October 2, 1866
117th				Liberal Union	Córdoba	March 30, 1867 – April 3, 1867
						April 4, 1867 – December 3, 1867
118th		Luis José Sartorius y Tapia		Moderate	Cuenca	December 28, 1867 – December 3, 1868
119th				Progressive	Madrid	February 12, 1869 – February 19, 1869
						February 20, 1869 – January 17, 1870
120th		Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla		Radical-Democratic	Madrid	January 17, 1870 – January 2, 1871
121st		Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz		Constitutionalist	Logroño	April 4, 1871 – May 12, 1871
						May 13, 1871 – October 2, 1871
122nd		Práxedes Mateo Sagasta		Constitutionalist	Madrid	October 3, 1871 – January 6, 1872
123rd		Antonio de los Ríos Rosas		Liberal Union	Málaga	April 25, 1872 – May 9, 1872
						May 10, 1872 – June 28, 1872
124th				Constitutionalist	Madrid/Seville	September 16, 1872 – September 25, 1872
						September 26, 1872 – February 11, 1873
125th		Cristino Martos y Balbí		Radical-Democratic	Madrid	February 12, 1873 – March 18, 1873
126th				Federal Democratic Republican	Almería	March 19, 1873 – March 22, 1873
127th		José María Orense Milá de Aragón Herrero		Federal Democratic Republican	Palencia	June 1, 1873 – June 6, 1873
						June 7, 1873 – June 12, 1873
128th		Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso		Federal Democratic Republican	Almería	June 13, 1873 – August 24, 1873
129th		Emilio Castelar		Federal Democratic Republican	Huelva	August 25, 1873 – September 8, 1873
130th		Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso		Federal Democratic Republican	Almería	September 9, 1873 – January 8, 1874
131st		José Posada Herrera		Liberal	Oviedo	February 16, 1876 – February 25, 1876
						February 26, 1876 – January 5, 1877
						April 26, 1877 – July 11, 1877
						January 10, 1878 – January 28, 1878
132nd		Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera		Conservative	Badajoz/Madrid	February 16, 1878 – December 30, 1878
						June 2, 1879 – June 23, 1879
						June 24, 1879 – December 30, 1879†
-		(Vice President of the Congress of Deputies)		Liberal	Badajoz	December 30, 1879 – January 21, 1880
133rd		Francisco de Borja Queipo de Llano		Conservative	Oviedo	January 21, 1880 – September 16, 1880
						December 31, 1880 – June 25, 1881
134th		José Posada Herrera		Liberal	Madrid/Oviedo	September 21, 1881 – October 19, 1881
						October 20, 1881 – November 16, 1882
						December 4, 1882 – July 26, 1883
135th		Práxedes Mateo Sagasta		Liberal	Zamora	December 17, 1883 – March 31, 1884
136th		Francisco de Borja Queipo de Llano		Conservative	Oviedo	May 21, 1884 – June 8, 1884
						June 9, 1884 – July 11, 1885
137th		Antonio Cánovas del Castillo		Conservative	Madrid	December 26, 1885 – March 8, 1886
138th		Cristino Martos y Balbí		Liberal	Valencia	May 10, 1886 – June 10, 1886
						June 11, 1886 – December 24, 1886
						January 17, 1887 – November 3, 1887
						December 2, 1887 – November 6, 1888
						November 30, 1888 – June 3, 1889
139th		Manuel Alonso Martínez		Liberal	Burgos	June 14, 1889 – December 29, 1890
140th				Conservative	Oviedo	March 3, 1891 – April 19, 1891
						April 20, 1891 – January 5, 1893
141st		Antonio Aguilar y Correa		Liberal	Córdoba	April 6, 1893 – May 7, 1893
						May 8, 1893 – October 16, 1894
						November 12, 1894 – July 1, 1895
142nd				Conservative	Oviedo	May 12, 1896 – June 15, 1896
						June 16, 1896 – February 26, 1898
143rd		Antonio Aguilar y Correa		Liberal	Córdoba	April 21, 1898 – April 24, 1898
						April 25, 1898 – March 16, 1899
144th				Conservative	Oviedo	June 3, 1899 – June 15, 1899
						June 16, 1899 – October 18, 1900
145th		Raimundo Fernández Villaverde y García Rivero		Conservative	Pontevedra	November 20, 1900 – April 25, 1901
146th		Antonio Aguilar y Correa		Liberal	Córdoba	June 12, 1901 – July 1, 1901
						July 2, 1901 – July 14, 1901
147th		Segismundo Moret		Liberal	Zaragoza	July 15, 1901 – April 3, 1902
148th		Antonio Aguilar y Correa		Liberal	Córdoba	April 3, 1902 – March 26, 1903
149th		Raimundo Fernández Villaverde y García Rivero		Conservative	Pontevedra	May 19, 1903 – June 17, 1903
						June 18, 1903 – July 18, 1903
150th		Francisco Romero Robledo		Conservative	Málaga	October 20, 1903 – September 12, 1904
						October 3, 1904 – August 17, 1905
151st		Antonio Aguilar y Correa		Liberal	Córdoba	October 12, 1905 – November 17, 1905
						November 18, 1905 – January 18, 1906
152nd		José Canalejas y Méndez		Liberal	Alicante/Ciudad Real	January 19, 1906 – March 3, 1907
153rd		Eduardo Dato Iradier		Conservative	León	May 14, 1907 – June 5, 1907
						June 6, 1907 – September 13, 1908
						October 12, 1908 – September 27, 1909
						October 15, 1909 – April 14, 1910
154th		Álvaro de Figueroa y Torres		Liberal	Guadalajara	June 16, 1910 – June 29, 1910
						June 30, 1910 – February 17, 1911
						March 6, 1911 – November 18, 1912
155th		Segismundo Moret		Liberal	Granada	November 19, 1912 – January 28, 1913†
-		(Vice President of the Congress of Deputies)		Liberal	Huesca	January 28, 1913 – May 27, 1913
156th		Miguel Villanueva y Gómez		Liberal	Logroño	May 27, 1913 – January 2, 1914
157th		Augusto González Besada		Conservative	Alicante	April 3, 1914 – April 27, 1914
						April 28, 1914 – October 28, 1915
						November 5, 1915 – March 16, 1916
158th		Miguel Villanueva y Gómez		Liberal	Logroño	May 11, 1916 – May 28, 1916
						May 29, 1916 – January 23, 1917
						January 29, 1917 – January 10, 1918
						March 19, 1918 – April 7, 1918
						April 8, 1918 – May 2, 1919
-		Juan Armada y Losada		Conservative	A Coruña	June 25, 1919 – July 27, 1919
159th		José Sánchez-Guerra y Martínez		Conservative	Córdoba	July 28, 1919 – October 2, 1920
						January 5, 1921 – February 21, 1921
						February 22, 1921 – February 21, 1922
						March 1, 1922 – March 14, 1922
160th		Gabino Bugallal Araújo		Conservative	Ourense	March 15, 1922 – April 5, 1923
161st		Melquíades Álvarez y González Posada		Liberal	Oviedo	May 25, 1923 – June 11, 1923
						June 12, 1923 – September 15, 1923
Parliament dissolved between 1923 and 1927
162nd		José María Yanguas y Messía		Patriotic Union	-	October 10, 1927 – July 6, 1929
Parliament dissolved between 1929 and 1931
163rd		Julián Besteiro		Socialist	Madrid	July 14, 1931 – July 26, 1931
						July 27, 1931 – October 9, 1933
164th		Santiago Alba y Bonifaz		Radical Republican	Zamora	December 8, 1933 – December 27, 1933
						December 28, 1933 – January 7, 1936
165th		Diego Martínez Barrio		Republican Union	Madrid	March 16, 1936 – April 2, 1936
						April 3, 1936 – March 31, 1939
Parliament dissolved between 1939 and 1943
166th		Esteban de Bilbao Eguía		Falangist	-	March 16, 1943 – September 29, 1965
167th		Antonio Iturmendi Bañales		Falangist	-	September 30, 1965 – November 26, 1969
168th		Alejandro Rodríguez de Valcárcel		Falangist	-	November 27, 1969 – December 5, 1975
169th		Torcuato Fernández-Miranda		Falangist	-	December 6, 1975 – June 30, 1977
-		President of the Realm's Council and Parliament		Independent	-	June 15, 1977 – December 29, 1978
170th		Fernando Álvarez de Miranda		Democratic Centre Union	Palencia	July 13, 1977 – October 17, 1977
						October 18, 1977 – March 22, 1979
171st		Landelino Lavilla		Democratic Centre Union	Madrid	March 23, 1979 – May 2, 1939
						May 3, 1979 – November 17, 1982
172nd		Gregorio Peces-Barba		Socialist	Valladolid	November 18, 1982 – July 14, 1986
173rd		Félix Pons		Socialist	Balearic Islands	July 15, 1986 – November 20, 1989
						November 21, 1989 – June 28, 1993
						June 29, 1993 – March 26, 1996
174th		Federico Trillo		Popular	Alicante	March 27, 1996 – April 4, 2000
175th		Luisa Fernanda Rudi Ubeda		Popular	Zaragoza	April 5, 2000 – April 1, 2004
176th		Manuel Marín		Socialist	Ciudad Real	April 2, 2004 – March 31, 2008
177th		José Bono		Socialist	Toledo	April 1, 2008 – December 12, 2011
178th		Jesús Posada		Popular	Soria	December 13, 2011 – January 12, 2016
179th		Patxi López		Socialist	Biscay	January 13, 2016 – July 18, 2016
180th		Ana Pastor Julián		Popular	Madrid	July 19, 2016 – May 20, 2019
181st		Meritxell Batet		Socialist	Barcelona	May 21, 2019 – December 2, 2019
						December 3, 2019 – present
Acting • † Death in office •   Independent (73) •   Progressive (29) •   Moderate (24) •   Liberal Union (6) •   Radical-Democratic (2) •   Constitutionalist (3) •   Federal Democratic Republican (5) •   Liberal (19) •   Conservative (15) •   Patriotic Union (1) •   Socialist (7) •   Radical Republican (1) •   Republican Union (1) •   Falangist (4) •   Democratic Centre Union (2) •   Popular (4)

Presidents by time in office[]

The length of time given below is based on the difference between dates. Many presidents were elected multiple times, and to terms that were, in several instances, not consecutive; the length of time given for each president measures their cumulative length of incumbency as president (even if they were elected as acting president). The time after adjournment of one Congress but before the convening of the next Congress is also counted.

Coat of Arms of the Spanish Congress of Deputies

Esteban de Bilbao Eguía, longest serving president of the Congress, 22 years, 193 days

Félix Pons, longest tenure of office in the current democratic period, 9 years, 350 days

, longest tenure of office in the 19th century, 5 years, 5 days (non-consecutive)

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