Congress begins in 2024 with works in the chamber for the installation of new touch screens that will replace the old monitors and keyboards that are in all seats of the Congress. Session Rooma project that will cost three million euros and that will force the Senate to hold the plenary sessions in January.
On these new devices, your honorable Members will be able to see information about the votes that take place in the plenary sessions and they will also be used to connect to the Spanish translation of the plenary sessions and to follow them through subtitles.
The initial idea of Congress was to carry out the renewal of the system last autumn when the Cortes were scheduled to be dissolved to hold general elections at the end of the year. However, President Pedro Sánchez’s decision to advance the legislative elections to July 23 put an end to that plan.
This change in the calendar has also forced the introduction of new features in the system that is going to be installed, since it has been decided to take advantage of it to facilitate access to the simultaneous translation into Spanish of the sessions.
The reform of the Regulation that gave free rein to the use of Catalan, Galician and Basque was approved in September and then, Congress invested 45,900 euros (VAT included) in the rental and maintenance until the end of this year of radio frequency antennas and packs .