The Junta Electoral Central (JEC) (') is the

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for elections in Spain, monitoring and registering provincial elections, district elections, those of self-governing districts and general elections. It supervises the vote at

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s. Its mission is to "ensure the transparency of the electoral process and monitor the performance of the Electoral Census Office." It is based in

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, and was created by Spanish law on 26 June 1890 as Central Commission of the Electoral Census (). During the transition to democracy, the Royal Decree-Law 20/1977 of 18 March, on Electoral Regulations, renamed it as ''Junta Electoral Central''.

Composition

It comprises eight judges from the

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, five active professors of

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and

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, a

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, and the director of the Electoral Census Office (part of the National Statistics Institute), who has a

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but is otherwise a

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Presidents

Before 1985, the Commission was chaired by the President of the Congress of Deputies (1890-1907) and by the President of the Supreme Court (1907-1985). * 1985 - 1987: Paulino Martín Martín * 1987 - 1991: Francisco Tuero Bertrand * 1991 - March 1993: José Hermenegildo Moyna Ménguez * March 1993 - 1994: Ángel Rodríguez García * 1994 - 1997: Francisco Soto Nieto * 1997 - April 1999: José Luis Albacar López * April 1999 - 2000: Juan Antonio Xiol Ríos * 2000 - 2004: Enrique Cáncer Lalanne * 2004 - 2008: José María Ruiz-Jarabo Ferrán * 2008 - 2012: Antonio Martín Valverde * 2012 - 2017: Carlos Granados Pérez''BOE'' Núm. 142.
'' BOE''. Consultado el 3 de julio de 2014. * 2017 - 2019: Segundo Menéndez Pérez * 2019 - 2020: Antonio Jesús Fonseca-Herrero Raimundo * Since 2020: Miguel Colmenero Menéndez de Luarca

References

External links

* Elections in Spain

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