The Provincial Deputation of Toledo (

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: ''Diputación Provincial de Toledo'') or Provincial Council of Toledo is the institution charged with the government and administration of the Spanish

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History

Following the 1812 Constitution, the first deputation should have convened on 14 August 1813, although there are no records of meetings for such period neither for the

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. Following the 1833 division of Spain and the ensuing 1835 decree on the creation of provincial deputations, the provincial deputation of Toledo was definitely installed on 3 January 1836. Santiago Villa, from

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, became the first president of the provincial corporation. The provincial deputation opened its current headquarters in 1899.

Structure

The composition of its deliberative assembly or plenary (''pleno'') is indirectly determined on the basis of its election by the elected municipal councillors of all ''ayuntamientos''. The partisan distribution of the plenary is determined as per the D'Hondt apportionment of the results of the sum of municipal elections in each one of the judicial districts (as of 2019: Toledo, Talavera de la Reina, Torrijos, Quintanar de la Orden, Orgaz and Ocaña). The president of the deputation is elected by the plenary from among its members at the constitutive session of the provincial corporation that follows the constitutive session of the

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s (the ''ayuntamientos''). The candidate needs to command a qualified majority in a first round of voting or a simple majority in a second round. Since 2015, (Mayor of

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and member of the

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), serves as president of the provincial deputation.

References

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