The limitations of the newly elected Parliament during the extended mandate (prorrogatio) of the caretaker Government

Abstract

Abstract:
Much has been written about the sense and limitation of the caretaker Government, deemed a necessary body since the governmental
tasks may not be paralyzed due to the natural succession thereof.
Resourcing to an extension (prorrogatio) of the mandate of constitutional
bodies as caretakers still stands as a valid explanation of this phenomenon. The role of the Parliament validly constituted through elections during the vacatio leading to the appointment of the new president has attracted less interest. This work aims at addressing this understudied issued in an attempt to elucidate whether the Spanish parliamentary system of government, operating both at the
State and regional levels, introduces any variant in the functioning of the Parliament beyond the common limitations of the caretaker Government.