General Junta of the Principality of Asturias

General Junta of the
Principality of Asturias

*Junta General del Principado de Asturias* (Spanish)
*Xunta Xeneral del Principáu d'Asturies* (Asturian)
General Junta of the; Principality of Asturias ; Junta General del Principado de Asturias (Spanish); Xunta Xeneral del Principáu d'Asturies (Asturian)
12th General Junta
Type
Type	Spanish regional legislature
Houses	Unicameral
Leadership
President	Juan Cofiño, FSA–PSOE ; since 26 June 2023
Vice President	María Celia Fernández Fernández, FSA–PSOE ; since 24 June 2019
Second Vice President	Pablo Álvarez-Pire Santiago, PP ; since 24 June 2019
Secretary	Ovidio Zapico, IU/IX–MP–IAS ; since 24 June 2019
Structure
Seats	45
Political groups	Government (22) FSA–PSOE (19); IU/IX–MP–IAS (3); Supported by (1) Independent (1); Opposition (22) PP (17); Vox (4); Foro (1);
Elections
Voting system	Closed party list in three constituencies with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method
First election	8 May 1983
Last election	28 May 2023
Meeting place
	Regional Palace, Oviedo
Website
	www.jgpa.es

The General Junta of the Principality of Asturias (in Spanish: Junta General del Principado de Asturias, in Asturian: Xunta Xeneral del Principáu d'Asturies) is the parliament of Asturias, an autonomous community of Spain. Its Statute of Autonomy, the basic organic law of the community, defines it as the supreme institution of representation of the Asturian people.

Established in its current form in 1982, the General Junta is named after an Asturian political institution that existed from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. The General Junta exercises legislative power, approves the budgets of the community, and holds to account the Council of Government, the executive branch, whose leader it elects as the "President of the Principality of Asturias". It also exercises all competences conferred or devolved to the autonomous communities in the Constitution of Spain and assumed by the community itself in its Statute of Autonomy and any other relevant law.

The General Junta is made up of 45 members called "deputies" (in Spanish: diputados) elected every four years, though the President of the Principality may dissolve the parliament and trigger early elections. The General Junta meets at the Regional Palace in Oviedo.
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