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images by Zoltan Horvath, 12 January 2014
Parlamento del Mercosur (Spanish)
Parlamento do Mercosul (Portuguese)
The Mercosur Parliament is the parliamentary institution of the Mercosur
trade bloc. It is composed of 81 representatives, 18 from each member states - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
and Uruguay
- and 9 from applying member Venezuela. Associate
members - Bolivia, Chile,
Colombia, Ecuador and
Peru - may also hold seats on the Parliament, but with no
voting powers. The Parliament was established in December 2006, but its first
session of the Parliament was only held in May 2007.
Zoltan Horvath, 12 January 2014
"The creation of the Mercosur Parliament traces back to a 2002 process of
establishing bodies and procedures aimed at the institutionalization and
political autonomy of the bloc. During the XXVII Meeting of Mercosur Heads of
State on December 17, 2004, at Ouro Preto, Minas
Gerais, the CMC (Consejo del Mercado Común, Common Market Council) instructed
the CPC (Comisión Parlamentaria Conjunta, Joint Parliamentary Commission) to
write a protocol establishing the Mercosur Parliament, recommending its
completion until the end of 2006. The CPC created the project in advance and on
December 9, 2005, the Presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
and Uruguay
signed the Constitutive Protocol of the Mercosur Parliament, creating the
new body.
The first session of the Parliament should have been held before December 31,
2006, but it was only held on May 7, 2007, replacing the CPC. On June 2008, the
MPs held their first parliamentary session outside the Mercosur headquarters in
Montevideo, on the city of San Miguel de Tucumán, where the XXXV Meeting of
Mercosur Heads of State was also being held".
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercosur_Parliament and
http://www.parlamentodelmercosur.org/innovaportal/v/7006/1/parlasur/parlamento.html
For additional information go to:
Parlamento del Mercosur
(official website)
Esteban Rivera, 12 January 2014
Its flag is white with its emblem, forming by four blue stars of Southern
Cross encircled by two leaves of a grey oval. Name of the Parliament is written
under the logo. Spanish and Portugese variants are also used.
Image of flag:
http://www.tvkinc.com/2013/11/28/el-parlamento-del-mercosur-se-reune-la-proxima-semana-con-el-debut-de-venezuela/
Zoltan Horvath, 12 January 2014
The logo of the Parliament contains the southern cross as in the
Mercosul logo. I don't know when it was introduced, although using web
search and the way back machine, you can find it being used in 2010.
The flag bearing the logo has been used since at least 2011, based on the
pictures at <
http://www.unidadbatllista1010.com.uy/juan-angel-vazquez-en-el-parlamento-del-mercosur-3/
Jonathan Dixon, 25 June 2014