Generalitat de Catalunya

Generalitat de Catalunya
	Seal of the Generalitat de Catalunya
	Logo of the Generalitat de Catalunya
Government of Catalonia overview
Formed	19 December 1359 (first inception); 17 April 1931 (established by the Second Spanish Republic); 29 September 1977 (reestablished from exile)
Dissolved	16 September 1714 (defeat in the War of the Spanish Succession); 5 February 1939 (Francoist occupation during Spanish Civil War)
Jurisdiction	Catalonia
Headquarters	Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya
Employees	240,000
Annual budget	€34.03 billion (2017)
Government of Catalonia executives	Pere Aragonès, President of the Government of Catalonia; Josep Rull, President of Parliament of Catalonia; 13 ministers, Executive Council of Catalonia;
Website	gencat.cat

The Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan pronunciation: [ʒənəɾəliˈtad də kətəˈluɲə]; Spanish: Generalidad de Cataluña; Occitan: Generalitat de Catalonha), or the Government of Catalonia, is the institutional system by which Catalonia is self-governed as an autonomous community of Spain. It is made up of the Parliament of Catalonia, the Presidency of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and the Executive Council of Catalonia (or council of ministers, also very often referred to as Govern, "Government"). It's powers are set out in the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia.

The origins of the Generalitat are in the 13th century when permanent councils of deputies (deputations) were created to rule administration of the Courts of the different realms that formed the Crown of Aragon which gave birth to the Deputation of the General of the Principality of Catalonia (1359), the Deputation of the General of the Kingdom of Aragon (1362) and the Deputation of the General of the Kingdom of Valencia (1412). The modern Generalitat was established in 1931, as the institution of self-government of Catalonia within the Spanish Republic. After the end of the Civil War in 1940 the President was executed and the Generalitat abolished. Notwithstanding, the presidency went into exile until it was reestablished in 1977.^[3]

Its headquarters are at the Palau de la Generalitat, in the city of Barcelona.

^ Statistical Bulletin of public administrations, P.32 Archived 26 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine
^ http://aplicacions.economia.gencat.cat/wpres/AppPHP/2017/pdf/VOL_L_EID.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ Markham, James M. (24 Oct 1977). "Catalan Leader, Exiled 38 Years, Returns to Tumultuous Welcome". New York Times.

[1] Statistical Bulletin of public administrations, P.32 Archived 26 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine

[2] ttp://aplicacions.economia.gencat.cat/wpres/AppPHP/2017/pdf/VOL_L_EID.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

[3] Markham, James M. (24 Oct 1977). "Catalan Leader, Exiled 38 Years, Returns to Tumultuous Welcome". New York Times.

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