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| Type | Ayuntamiento |
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| Headquarters | Plaza del Carmen 5, Granada, Spain |
Region | Granada |
Mayor | Francisco Cuenca |
The Ayuntamiento de Granada is the institution charged with the government and administration of the Spanish municipality of Granada.
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| Type | Ayuntamiento |
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| Headquarters | Plaza del Carmen 5, Granada, Spain |
Region | Granada |
Mayor | Francisco Cuenca |
The Ayuntamiento de Granada is the institution charged with the government and administration of the Spanish municipality of Granada.
Following the conquest of Granada in 1492, the offices of corregidor and regidor(es) were established in Granada. [1] While the Constitutive Charter granted by the Catholic Monarchs on 20 September 1500 has been traditionally framed by most authors as the point of origin of the city's municipal regime, the document has been more recently argued to rather be a reform or restructuration of preexisting political realities. [2] The latter royal stipulations established a municipal institutional structure consisting of 1 corregidor, 24 regidores and 2 ordinary alcaldes , remaining a corregimiento from then on for most of the Early Modern period. [1] Throughout this period, the number of regidores ranged from 44 (1587) to 15 (1787), [3] while a military background (capa y espada) prevailed vis-à-vis the extraction of the monarch-appointed corregidor, the highest ranking official. [4] Most often, the two alcaldes were experts in law covering the shortcomings of the corregidor on that field. [5] While originally the regidores were appointed at the discretion of the monarch, eventually the trade of the condition of regidor thrived. [6]
It is formed by the Plenary (Pleno), the Mayor (alcalde) and the Local Government Board (Junta de Gobierno Local).
The Plenary of the Ayuntamiento is the body of political representation of the citizens in the municipal government. Its members (as of 2019, 27), [7] known as concejales ("municipal councillors"), are elected for a 4-year mandate following the schedule of the country-wide municipal elections. They are organised in municipal groups.
The mayor (alcalde), the supreme representative of the city, presides over the ayuntamiento. The mayor is invested by the municipal councillors from among themselves following each municipal election.
The Local Government Board consists of the mayor, the deputy mayor(s) and a number of delegates assuming the portfolios for the different government areas, delegated by the mayor. All those positions are held by municipal councillors.
Following the May 2019 municipal election, Luis Salvador (Citizens), was invested as Mayor of Granada on 15 June 2019. [7] [8]
The city hall is located at a building in the plaza del Carmen, the undemolished part of a convent of female Discalced Carmelites where the municipal premises were moved to from the old Madrasah of Granada in 1858 following the ecclesial desamortización. [9]
Alcalde is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions. An alcalde was, in the absence of a corregidor, the presiding officer of the Castilian cabildo and judge of first instance of a town. Alcaldes were elected annually, without the right to reelection for two or three years, by the regidores of the municipal council. The office of the alcalde was signified by a staff of office, which they were to take with them when doing their business. A woman who holds the office is termed an Alcaldesa.
The Mayor of Madrid presides over the Madrid City Council, the government body of the capital city of Spain. The mayor has the duty of boosting the local policies, it directs the action of the other executive bodies, leads the Local Executive Administration and is accountable to the Plenary for its political management.
The municipalities or municipios of El Salvador correspond to the second level administrative division in the Republic of El Salvador which divide its departments. El Salvador contains 262 municipalities.
A cabildo or ayuntamiento was a Spanish colonial, and early post-colonial, administrative council which governed a municipality. Cabildos were sometimes appointed, sometimes elected; but they were considered to be representative of all land-owning heads of household (vecinos). The colonial cabildo was essentially the same as the one developed in medieval Castile.
A regidor is a member of a council of municipalities in Spain and Latin America. Portugal also used to have the same office of regedor.
A corregidor was a local administrative and judicial official in Spanish Empire. They were the representatives of the royal jurisdiction over a town and its district.
The Mayor of Ponce is the head of government of Ponce, Puerto Rico. The current mayor is Luis Irizarry Pabón.
The City Council of Madrid is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the Madrid, the capital and biggest city of Spain.
An Ayuntamiento is the body charged with the government and administration of the municipalities in Spain not bound to the regime of concejo abierto.
Local government in Spain refers to the government and administration of what the Constitution calls "local entities", which are primarily municipalities, but also groups of municipalities including provinces, metropolitan areas, comarcas and mancomunidades and sub-municipal groups known as Minor local entities.
The City Council of Barcelona is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. In terms of political structure, it consists of the invested Mayor of Barcelona, currently Ada Colau, the Government Commission, and an elected 41-member deliberative Plenary with scrutiny powers.
The City Council of Seville is the top-tier administrative and governing body (ayuntamiento) of the municipality of Seville, Spain. In terms of political structure, it consists of the invested Mayor of Seville, currently Juan Espadas, the Local Executive Board, the deputy mayors, and an elected 31-member deliberative Plenary (Pleno) with scrutiny powers. Each district in the municipality has its corresponding executive board.
The concejo abierto is a system of government and administration of some very small Spanish municipalities and sub-municipal territorial units. An example of direct democracy, the system allows for the existence of a Mayor and a consejo or asamblea vecinal formed by all the electors of the municipality. In contrast, the conventional system used by most municipalities is the ayuntamiento, often translated as city, town or municipal council in English, comprised of the local councillors who form the plenary, and the Mayor, elected in turn by the councillors among themselves.
Inés Sabanés Nadal is a Spanish eco-socialist politician. She served as Madrid's Councillor for the Environment and Mobility from 2015 to 2019.
Rita Maestre Fernández is a Spanish political scientist and politician. A member of the Madrid City Council since 2015, she served as Spokesperson of the municipal government board presided by Manuela Carmena from 2015 to 2019.
José Luis Martínez-Almeida Navasqüés is a Spanish state lawyer and politician. A member of the People's Party (PP), he has been a member of the Madrid City Council since 2015 and has been Mayor of Madrid since 2019.
Antonio Rodríguez Osuna is a Spanish politician, serving as Mayor of Mérida since 2015. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he was member of the Assembly of Extremadura from 2011 to 2015.
Luis Miguel Salvador García is a Spanish politician of the Citizens party. He was mayor of Granada from 2019 to 2021, and was in the Congress of Deputies from 2016 to 2019. Before switching parties in 2013, he was in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and was in the Senate from 2004 to 2011.
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