O acesso à informação do poder legislativo: o caso de Espanha

The Spanish law on transparency and access to information has the social control of public institutions as its main objective, allowing citizens to know what criteria guide the decisions of public authorities and how public funds are managed. This article examines the extent to which the transparency law applies to legislative bodies and, more specifically, the scope of the right of access to information in the case of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate. To this end, this article analyses the three main features that characterise the subjection of the legislative power to transparency, highlighting the limitations of the right of access to information held by parliamentary chambers.