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Ajuntament De València
The Ayuntamiento of Valencia, or Valencia City Council, is the institution that is responsible for governing the city and municipality of Valencia (Spain). It is called in or . It is presided over by the mayor of Valencia, who since 1979 has been Valencia City Council elections, democratically elected by universal suffrage. Since 2023, the position is held by María José Catalá, of the People's Party (Spain), People's Party. The institution is located and holds formal meetings in the Valencia City Hall or in and in . The building is also often called the Ayuntamiento by metonymy. Operation The City Council is the group of political representation of citizens in the municipal government. It directly assumes the representation of the community and determines actions on the issues confronting the city. The councilors of the City of Valencia are chosen by universal suffrage in elections held every four years. The D'Hondt system is the mathematical algorithm used in Spain to dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayuntamiento
''Ayuntamiento'' ()In other languages of Spain: * (). * (). * (). is the general term for the town council, or ''cabildo'', of a municipality or, sometimes, as is often the case in Spain and Latin America, for the municipality itself. is mainly used in Spain; in Latin America is also for municipal governing bodies, especially the executive ones, where the legislative body and the executive body are two separate entities. In Catalan-speaking parts of Spain, municipalities generally use the Catalan cognate, , while Galician ones use the word , Astur-Leonese and Basque . Since is a metonym for the building in which the council meets, it also translates to "city/town hall" in English. Historically With the eighteenth-century Bourbon Reforms in New Spain, which created intendancies and weakened the power of the viceroy, the ''ayuntamientos'' "became the institution representing the interests of the local and regional oligarchical groups then setting deep roots into their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
