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Ayuntamiento (Spanish pronunciation: [aʝuntaˈmjento]) [note 1] is the general term for the town council, or cabildo, of a municipality [1] or, sometimes, as is often the case in Spain and Latin America, for the municipality itself.
1] The ayuntamiento is one of the bodies charged with local government in Spain. The ayuntamiento is made up of the mayor, deputy mayors and councillors and, in larger municipalities, an executive committee. [1] Councillors are elected by universal suffrage and secret ballot and they in turn elect the mayor. [2]
A cabildo (Spanish pronunciation:) or ayuntamiento (Spanish: [aʝuntaˈmjento]) was a Spanish colonial and early postcolonial administrative council that governed a municipality. Cabildos were sometimes appointed, sometimes elected, but were considered to be representative of all land-owning heads of household ( vecinos ).
The ayuntamiento is composed of the mayor (Spanish: alcalde), the deputy mayors (Spanish: tenientes de alcalde) and the deliberative assembly (pleno) of councillors (concejales). Another form of local government used in small municipalities is the concejo abierto (open council), in which the deliberative assembly is formed by all the electors ...
Municipalities of Spain. 2004. This is a list of lists of the municipalities of Spain.The municipalities list links are listed below, by autonomous community and province.. In 2022, there were a total of 8,131 municipalities in Spain, including the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla*. [1]
The City Council of Madrid (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Madrid) is the top-tier administrative and governing body of Madrid, the capital and biggest city of Spain.. The city council is composed by three bodies; the mayor who leads the city council and the executive branch of it, the governing council (Junta de Gobierno) which is the main body of the executive branch composed by the mayor and the ...
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 (Spanish: Entidad de Ámbito Territorial Inferior al Municipio).
The City Council of Seville (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Sevilla) 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 (Junta de Gobierno Local), the deputy mayors, and an elected 31-member deliberative Plenary (Pleno ...