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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.
An ayuntamiento is the body charged with the government and administration of the municipalities in Spain not bound to the regime of concejo abierto ('open council'). [ n. 1 ] The ayuntamiento is one of the bodies charged with local government in Spain .
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 ...
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 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 ...
ayuntamiento (elected municipal council) and síndico (mayor) Ecuador Cantón is used Cantons of Ecuador: Municipio or Municipalidad with elected alcalde (mayor) and concejales (councilors) Below provinces. Further subdivided into urban and rural parishes. El Salvador Municipio is used Municipalities of El Salvador: Alcalde: Below departments ...
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.
By the end of the fourteenth century the definite form of the Castilian municipal council, the ayuntamiento or cabildo, had been established.The council was limited to a maximum of twenty-four members (regidores), who may be appointed for life by the crown, hold the office as an inherited possession or be elected by the citizens of the municipality.