The City Council of Madrid ( es, Ayuntamiento de Madrid) is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

, the capital and biggest city of

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. The City Council is composed by three bodies; the

Mayor In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well as ...

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 councillors appointed by him and the Plenary, a democratically elected assembly which represents the people of Madrid. The current Mayor of Madrid is

José Luis Martínez-Almeida José Luis Martínez-Almeida Navasqüés (born 17 April 1975) 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. B ...

since June 2019.

Main bodies

Governing Council

The ''Junta de Gobierno of the City of Madrid'' is the executive branch of the City Council, formed by the Mayor and a group of councillors appointed by the Mayor. The current Board is composed of ten members, which are:

Districts

The local government of the City uses a decentralized system but ultimately led by the ''ayuntamiento''. The Plenary is the body with authority to divide the City into districts and the Mayor has the authority to appoint the "Councillor-Presidents" chairing those districts. A Councillor-President must be an elected councillor. The current officeholders are:

Plenary

The Plenary is the body of maximum political representation of citizens in the municipal government, exercises the powers that are expressly assigned to it and is made up of the Mayor and the councillors. The councillors are elected on the basis of

universal suffrage Universal suffrage (also called universal franchise, general suffrage, and common suffrage of the common man) gives the right to vote to all adult citizens, regardless of wealth, income, gender, social status, race, ethnicity, or political stanc ...

in a secret ballot, and in turn they determine the Mayor of Madrid. Plenary sessions are public. The Plenary can operate in Committees, which will be formed by the Councillors who designate the political groups in proportion to their representation in the Plenary. The Plenary (''Pleno del Ayuntamiento de Madrid'') is the body formed by the elected councillors. The passing of

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, annual budget and taxes; the scrutiny of the council of government and the

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on the Mayor are tasks assigned to this entity in Spain. The Plenary of the City Council of Madrid is formed by the following groups for the period 2019-2023:

Mayor

The current mayor is

, from People's Party, invested on 15 June 2019 by an

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of the Plenary (30 councillors) in a secret ballot among the councillors.

Elections

A list of elections since the restoration of the democratic system is presented as follows: * 1979 Madrid City Council election * 1983 Madrid City Council election * 1987 Madrid City Council election * 1991 Madrid City Council election * 1995 Madrid City Council election * 1999 Madrid City Council election * 2003 Madrid City Council election * 2007 Madrid City Council election * 2011 Madrid City Council election * 2015 Madrid City Council election * 2019 Madrid City Council election

Councillors

* List of Madrid councillors (2003–2007) *

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* List of Madrid councillors (2011–2015) * List of Madrid councillors (2015–2019) * List of Madrid councillors (2019–2023)

City Hall

The City Hall is located at the

Cybele Palace Cibeles Palace ( Spanish: ''Palacio de Cibeles''), formally known as Palacio de Comunicaciones (''Palace of Communications'') and Palacio de Telecomunicaciones (''Palace of Telecommunications'') until 2011, is a complex composed of two building ...

(

Plaza de Cibeles The Plaza de Cibeles is a square with a neo-classical complex of marble sculptures with fountains that has become a symbol for the city of Madrid. It sits at the intersection of Calle de Alcalá (running from east to west), Paseo de Recoletos ( ...

, Retiro District), formerly known as ''Palacio de Comunicaciones''. The City Council began the process of moving from the Casa de la Villa (the former City Hall) to the Palacio de Comunicaciones in 2007.

Municipal companies

The ayuntamiento, an entity with full legal personality, fully owns the following municipal companies: Madrid Destino, EMT Madrid, EMVS Madrid and the mortuary. It also has a participation in Mercamadrid, Madrid Calle 30 and the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid.

References

Links

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