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General Junta of the Principality of Asturias | |
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| 12th General Junta | |
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| Type | |
| Type | |
| Houses | Unicameral |
| Leadership | |
President | Juan Cofiño, PSOE since 26 June 2023 |
Vice President | María Celia Fernández Fernández, PSOE since 24 June 2019 |
Second Vice President | Pablo Álvarez-Pire Santiago, PP since 24 June 2019 |
Secretary | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 45 |
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Political groups | Government (22)
Supported by (1)
Opposition (22) |
| Elections | |
| Closed party lists in three constituencies (Center 34, East 6, West 5) with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method | |
Last election | 28 May 2023 |
| Meeting place | |
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| 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.