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The Medieval precedent of the Generalitat, the Diputació del General de Catalunya ("Deputation of the General of Catalonia") was a permanent council of deputies established by the Courts in order to collect the new "tax of the General" (or tribute for the King) in 1359. The "general" refers to the combination of the three estates: nobility ...
The Executive Council of Catalonia (Catalan: Consell Executiu) or the Executive Government of Catalonia (Catalan: Govern de Catalunya) is the executive branch of the Generalitat of Catalonia and its main collective decision-making body. It is responsible for the political action, regulation, and administration of the government of the ...
The procedure to set up this list is the following: for the period of the medieval Generalitat (Deputation of the General), [6] the president was the most eminent ecclesiastic deputy of the Deputation of the General of Catalonia (popularly known as Generalitat), [7] a body of the Catalan Courts dissolved in 1716 and reinstated for two years in ...
This article lists the vice presidents of Catalonia, the second most senior position in the Government of Catalonia.The position, previously known as First Minister (Catalan: Conseller Primer, lit.
Proclamation of the Catalan Republic in Plaça de Sant Jaume by Francesc Macià, Barcelona, 14 April 1931. On 12 April 1931, local elections gave a large and unexpected majority in Catalonia (including Barcelona) to the Republican Left of Catalonia (Catalan: Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, ERC), a party that had been founded three weeks earlier by the union of Macià's pro-independence ...
Office name: Ministry of Instruction (Catalan: Conselleria d'Instrucció) (1931)Ministry of Public Instruction (Catalan: Conselleria d'Instrucció Pública) (1931–1932) ...
The Generalitat de Catalunya is the institution in which the self-government of Catalonia is politically organised. It consists of the Parliament, the President of the Generalitat and the Executive Council or Government of Catalonia. The region has gradually achieved a greater degree of autonomy since 1979.
On 18 June 2006, a referendum amending the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 1979 to further expand the authority of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Catalonia's government, was approved, and became effective on 9 August 2006. This referendum was noted for its voter turnout being below 50%. It was also noted for its uneasy coalition forging.