City Council of Madrid

The City Council of Madrid (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Madrid) is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the Madrid, the capital and biggest city of Spain.

City Council of Madrid

Ayuntamiento de Madrid
The main facade of the City Hall, located at Plaza de Cibeles.
Type	Ayuntamiento
Headquarters	Cybele Palace, Plaza de Cibeles 1, Madrid, Spain
Region	Madrid
Mayor	José Luis Martínez-Almeida (since 2019)

The City Council is composed by three bodies; the Mayor who leads the City Council and the executive branch of it, the Governing Council (Junta de Gobierno) which is the main body of the executive branch composed by the Mayor and the councillors appointed by him and the Plenary, a democratically elected assembly which represents the people of Madrid. The current Mayor of Madrid is José Luis Martínez-Almeida since June 2019.

Main bodies

Governing Council

The Junta de Gobierno of the City of Madrid is the executive branch of the City Council, formed by the Mayor and a group of councillors appointed by the Mayor. The current Board is composed of eight members, which are:^[1]

Portfolio	Officeholder
Mayor		José Luis Martínez-Almeida
Deputy Mayor		Inma Sanz
Spokesperson
Security and Emergencies
Culture, Tourism and Sport		Marta Rivera de la Cruz
Economy, Innovation and Finance		Engracia Hidalgo Tena
Urban Development, Environment and Mobility		Borja Carabante
Housing		Álvaro González López
Families, Equality and Social Welfare		José Fernández Sánchez
Public Works and Equipment		Paloma García Romero

Districts

The local government of the City uses a decentralized system but ultimately led by the ayuntamiento. The Plenary is the body with authority to divide the City into districts and the Mayor has the authority to appoint the "Councillor-Presidents" chairing those districts. A Councillor-President must be an elected councillor. The current officeholders are:^[2]

District	Councillor-President
Center		José Fernández Sánchez
Salamanca
Arganzuela		Cayetana Hernández de la Riva
Chamartín		Sonia Cea Quintana
Retiro		Santiago Saura
Tetuán		Blanca Pinedo Texidor
Chamberí		Javier Ramírez Caro
Fuencarral-El Pardo
Moncloa-Aravaca		Loreto Sordo Ruiz
Latina		Alberto Serrano Patiño
Hortaleza

District	Councillor-President
Carabanchel		Álvaro González López
Usera		Loreto Sordo Ruiz
Puente de Vallecas		Borja Fanjul
Moratalaz		Almudena Maíllo del Valle
Ciudad Lineal		Ángel Niño Quesada
Villaverde		Concepción Chapa Monteagudo
Villa de Vallecas
Vicálvaro		Martín Casariego Córdoba
San Blas-Canillejas
Barajas		Sofía Miranda Esteban

Plenary

A plenary session

The Plenary is the body of maximum political representation of citizens in the municipal government, exercises the powers that are expressly assigned to it and is made up of the Mayor and the councillors. The councillors are elected on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot, and in turn they determine the Mayor of Madrid. Plenary sessions are public. The Plenary can operate in Committees, which will be formed by the Councillors who designate the political groups in proportion to their representation in the Plenary.^[3]

The Plenary (Pleno del Ayuntamiento de Madrid) is the body formed by the elected councillors. The passing of by-laws, annual budget and taxes; the scrutiny of the council of government and the motion of no confidence on the Mayor are tasks assigned to this entity in Spain.^[4]

The Plenary of the City Council of Madrid is formed by the following groups for the period 2023–2027:

2023–2027

Political party		Spokesperson	Councillors
	People's Party	José Luis Martínez-Almeida	29
	Más Madrid	Rita Maestre	12
	Socialist Workers' Party	Reyes Maroto	11
	Vox	Javier Ortega Smith	5

Mayor

Main article: Mayor of Madrid

See also: List of mayors of Madrid

The current mayor is José Luis Martínez-Almeida, from People's Party, invested on 15 June 2019 by an absolute majority of the Plenary (30 councillors) in a secret ballot among the councillors.

Investiture voting^[5]
15 June 2019

Mayor Candidates	Votes
José Luis Martínez-Almeida	30
Manuela Carmena	19
Pepu Hernández	8

Elections

A list of elections since the restoration of the democratic system is presented as follows:

• 1979 Madrid City Council election
• 1983 Madrid City Council election
• 1987 Madrid City Council election
• 1991 Madrid City Council election
• 1995 Madrid City Council election
• 1999 Madrid City Council election
• 2003 Madrid City Council election
• 2007 Madrid City Council election
• 2011 Madrid City Council election
• 2015 Madrid City Council election
• 2019 Madrid City Council election
• 2023 Madrid City Council election

Results of the elections since 1979

City councelors in the City Council of Madrid since 1979
Key to parties   PCM   UCD   PSOE-CM   CP   IUCM   CDS   AP   PPCM   UPyD   Cs   AM   MM   Vox
Election	Distribution	Mayor
1979	9 25 25	Tierno Galván (PSOE) (1979-1986)
1983	4 30 23
1987	3 24 8 20	Barranco (PSOE) (1986-1989)
		Rodríguez Sahagún (CDS) (1989-1991)
1991	6 21 30	Álvarez del Manzano (PP) (1991-2003)
1995	9 16 30
1999	5 20 28
2003	4 21 30	Ruiz-Gallardón (PP) (2003-2011)
2007	5 18 34
2011	6 15 5 31
		Botella (PP) (2011-2015)
2015	20 9 7 21	Carmena (AM) (2015-2019)
2019	19 8 11 15 4	Almeida (PP) (2019-current)
2023	12 11 29 5

Councillors

• List of Madrid councillors (2003–2007)
• List of Madrid councillors (2007–2011)
• List of Madrid councillors (2011–2015)
• List of Madrid councillors (2015–2019)
• List of Madrid councillors (2019–2023)

City Hall

Main article: Cybele Palace

The City Hall is located at the Cybele Palace (Plaza de Cibeles, Retiro District), formerly known as Palacio de Comunicaciones. The City Council began the process of moving from the Casa de la Villa (the former City Hall) to the Palacio de Comunicaciones in 2007.^[6][7]

Municipal companies

The ayuntamiento, an entity with full legal personality, fully owns the following municipal companies: Madrid Destino, EMT Madrid, EMVS Madrid and the mortuary.^[8] It also has a participation in Mercamadrid, Madrid Calle 30 and the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid.^[8]

References

1. "El Ayuntamiento - Ayuntamiento de Madrid". www.madrid.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-11-27.
2. EFE, RTVE es/ (2019-06-16). "Ayuntamiento de Madrid: Almeida anuncia un gobierno sin Vox pero no descarta que entren". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-06-16.
3. "Capitality and Special Regime of Madrid Act of 2006". www.boe.es. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
4. Ramió, Carles (2001). "Las administraciones públicas" (PDF). Política y gobierno en España. In: M. Alcántara and Mª. A. Martínez (Eds.). Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch: 542–543. ISBN 84-8442-271-2. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 19, 2015.
5. "José Luis Martínez-Almeida, del PP, investido alcalde de Madrid". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2019-06-15. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
6. Calleja, Ignacio S. (2015-03-10). "Mantener el Palacio de Cibeles cuesta seis millones al año". ABC (in Spanish).
7. García Rallo, Bruno (2013-05-01). "El Palacio de Cibeles florece a costa de la lenta decadencia de la Casa de la Villa". El País (in Spanish).
8. "El Ayuntamiento cerró 2017 con 1.057 millones de superávit y 445 millones menos de deuda". Europa Press. 16 July 2017.

Further reading

• Comunidad de Madrid: "LEY 2/2003, de 11 de marzo, de Administración Local de la Comunidad de Madrid" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (in Spanish) (65): 3–27, 1989–4791. 18 March 2003.
• España: "LEY 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (80): 8945–8964. 3 April 1985. ISSN 0212-033X.

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