How the Laws and Regulation, Decision-makers, Votes, Session Records and Political News modules work.
The Laws and Regulation module lets you track all parliamentary initiatives, bills in progress, amendments and legislation published in the BOE or regional gazettes. You can ask about the status of a procedure, the next steps, legislation in force, projects by sector or keyword, and get an automated impact analysis.
The Decision-makers module lets you identify and get to know the public decision-makers relevant to your sector. It includes profiles of members of Congreso, senators and senior officials, their parliamentary track record, interventions, votes and social media activity.
The Votes module shows you the result of any vote in the Congreso or Senado with an interactive visualisation of the chamber. You can see how each member voted individually, the breakdown by parliamentary group and the patterns of alignment between parties.
The Session Records module lets you run semantic searches across the full transcripts of the plenary sessions and committees of the Congreso, Senado and regional chambers. Find mentions of your company, sector or topic with the exact verbatim quote, date, session and speaker.
The Political News module aggregates press releases from ministries and regulatory bodies, institutional agendas and news from leading media. It delivers briefings filtered by your sector and interests, helping you anticipate regulatory changes.
Fren's chamber view is a faithful SVG representation of the floor of the Congreso de los Diputados. Each seat shows the vote of the corresponding member with a colour code: green (in favour), red (against), yellow (abstention), grey (did not vote). Hovering over a seat shows the member's name, group and vote. Remote (telematic) votes appear in a separate section.
Fren does not search for exact words but for the meaning of your query. If you ask about "clean energy", it will also find initiatives that talk about "renewable energies", "ecological transition" or "decarbonisation", even if they do not use the exact words you searched for. It is an intelligent search.
Yes, that is one of its main advantages. For example, in a single question you can obtain: the status of a law (Laws and Regulation) + how the groups voted on its amendments (Votes) + what the spokespeople said in the debate (Session Records) + the press releases from the affected ministries (Political News).
Any natural-language question related to Spanish parliamentary, regulatory or political activity. For example: