Congress

Palacio del Congreso de la Nación Argentina, Buenos Aires.

A congress is a meeting or conference, generally periodic, where legislators meet to discuss issues of various kinds. It is made up of three elements: moderator, mediator and participant.

• The moderator moderates the textual and lyric opacity of the arguments.
• The mediator gives security and firmness to the arguments mentioned at the congress.
• The participant creates control and serenity.

Associative and Informative Conferences

These are periodic meetings (or constitutive meetings with the desire to establish themselves as periodic meetings), of an easily identifiable group with the desire to meet to discuss their reality or disseminate their new advances or proposals.

Mobile World Congress 2013 in Fira Barcelona-Gran Via.

The best-known congresses are the world congresses that bring together the best specialists in their respective areas. According to the ICCA, the United States is the country with the largest number of congresses and associative meetings (831 in 2015), while the cities that host the most These types of events are Paris (214), Vienna (202), Madrid (200), Berlin (193), Barcelona (182) and London (166).

Some examples could be: linguistic (International Congress of the Spanish Language), scientific (International Botanical Congress), technological (Mobile World Congress) or religious (International Eucharistic Congress).

Specificity

The Capitol, headquarters of the United States Congress, Washington D.C.

Legislative Palace in Lima, seat of the Congress of the Republic of Peru.

A Congress is different from a parliament to which the legislative initiative is ceded. In a presidential system, the executive and legislative powers are clearly differentiated divisions. The office of head of state and head of government are normally linked, and cabinet members are rarely elected by congress. Likewise, it is the name of the enclosure or place where the body or assembly that exercises the legislative power of a State meets, under the aforementioned system.

National congresses

• Congress of the Union is the bicameral legislative body in Mexico.
• Congress of the Argentine Nation is the bicameral legislative body in Argentina.
• Congress of the Republic of Peru is the unicameral legislative body in Peru.
• National Congress of Chile is the bicameral legislative body in Chile.
• Congress of the Republic of Guatemala is the unicameral legislative body in Guatemala.
• Congress of the Republic of Colombia is the bicameral legislative body in Colombia.

Lower Chambers

• Congress of the Spanish Deputies is the lower chamber of the Spanish General Courts.

Other assemblies

Congreso has also been used to describe certain historic pro-independence gatherings of nationalists or revolutionaries:

• The Angostura Congress.
• The United States Continental Congress.
• The Iraqi National Congress.
• The General Congress of 1824.
• The Congress of Cordoba.

Some political parties, such as the Indian National Congress, also began as such an assembly.

In addition, every few years many parties have a Congress or Convention of their political group, to make decisions about the party and its leadership. Like the Democratic Congress or Republican of the United States.