Generalitat de Catalunya
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| Parliament, President, Government overview | |
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| Formed | 1283 inception 1714 first abolition 1931 first restoration 1939 second abolition 1977 second restoration |
| Jurisdiction | Catalonia |
| Headquarters | Palau de la Generalitat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Employees | 165,000 |
| Annual budget | €29.7 billion (2012) |
| Minister responsible | |
| Website | gencat.cat |
The Government of Catalonia or Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan; Eastern Catalan: [ʒənəɾəɫiˈtad də kətəˈɫuɲə], Western Catalan: [ʒeneɾaliˈtad de kataˈluɲa]) is the institution under which the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain is politically organised. It consists of the Parliament of Catalonia, the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Government of Catalonia.
The Generalitat had responsibility for an annual budget of €24 billion in 2006, rising to €33 billion in 2010.
The Generalitat of Catalonia stems from the medieval institution which ruled, in the name of the King of the Crown of Aragon, some aspects of the administration of the Principality of Catalonia. The first Catalan constitution is that of the Corts of Barcelona from 1283.
Another medieval precedent- the Diputació del General de Catalunya (Deputation of the General of Catalonia, where "General" means the political community of the Catalans and not the military rank) – which the 1931 legislators felt was appropriate for invoking as a legitimising base for contemporary self-government.
Catalonia’s political past as a territorially differentiated community having its own representative and autonomous institutions, with respect to the sovereign power of the combined Aragonese monarchies (1283-1516) and Castilian monarchies (1516-1808) and of the Spanish constitutional state (since 1812), can be divided into four stages, separated by three great ruptures in the legal/public order.
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