The right of demonstration before the Parliament

Abstract

Abstract: 

This article focuses on the demonstrations before the Parliament. This issue demands to guarantee both the excercise of a fundamental right as well as the normal activity of this institution. It is commented the regulation existing in the United Kingdom and briefly the solution adopted in other Europenan countries. Then the Spanish situation is analyzed. At this point, the outcome is that both the proposed and existing legislation are clearly insufficient to reconcile these two requirements. What is needed more than safeguard the public order general is to protect the functioning of a key institution for democracy such as Parliament. And that may require more precise provisions.