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| Capital | Madrid | ||||
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| Statute of Autonomy | March 1, 1983 | ||||
| ISO 3166-2 | M | ||||
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Parliamentary representationCortes Generales is the name given to the Spanish Parliament. It is a bicameral legislature, composed of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house, and the Senate, the upper house. It has full legislative power (i. can enact any law and amend the Constitu
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| PresidentIn the process of the democracy restoration in Spain between 1975-1978, the nationalist and regionalist parties pressed to grant home rule to parts of Spain. Finally, the Constitution stated that any province or group of provinces could conform an autonom | Esperanza Aguirre ( PPThe People's Party ( Spanish: Partido Popular is a large liberal- conservative political party in Spain. It was the governing party from 1996 to 2004, led by Prime Minister Presidente del Gobierno Jose Maria Aznar. In August 2003, Mariano Rajoy was named) | ||||
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Madrid is one of SpainThe Kingdom of Spain is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the northeast, along the Pyrenees mountain range, it borders France and the tiny principality of Andorra. It inc's seventeen autonomous communitiesSpain's fifty provinces provincias are grouped into seventeen autonomous communities comunidades autonomas , in addition to two African autonomous cities ciudades autonomas ( Ceuta and Melilla). Formation and Powers Centralism, nationalism and separatism, located in the centre of the country. It is coterminous with the province of Madrid, and contains the city of Madrid which is the capital of the province, the community, and the country.
Madrid is bordered by the autonomous communities of Castile-Leon (provinces of Ávila and Segovia) and Castile-La Mancha (provinces of Guadalajara, Cuenca, and Toledo).
Over half of the population live in the capital. Other cities located in the community include Alcalá de Henares, San Lorenzo de El Escorial and Aranjuez. There are 179 municipalities in Madrid. See List of municipalities in Madrid.
Madrid was formerly considered part of New Castile (see Castile-La Mancha) but was made into its own community at the beginning of the autonomía system because of great economic disparity between Madrid and the Castilian-Manchego hinterland.
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| Andalusia | Aragon | Asturias | Balearic Islands | Basque Country | Canary Islands | Cantabria | Castile-La Mancha | Castile-Leon | Catalonia | Extremadura | Galicia | La Rioja | Madrid | Murcia | Navarre | Valencia | Ceuta | Melilla | Plaza de soberanía | |