What type of government does Spain have?
Spain has a parliamentary representative democratic constitutional monarchy, whereby the Monarch is the Head of State and the President of the Government is the head of government in a multi-party system. Executive power is vested in the government. Central legislative power is vested in the two chambers of parliament. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. Article 1.3. of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 states that “the political form of the Spanish State is that of a Parliamentary Monarchy.” Parliamentary democracy was restored following the death of General Franco in 1975, who had ruled since the end of the civil war in 1939. The 1978 constitution established Spain as a parliamentary monarchy, with the President of the Government (equivalent to Prime Minister) responsible to the bicameral Cortes Generales (Cortes) elected every 4 years. On 23 February 1981, in an event known as “23-F”, rebel elements among the security forces seized the Cortes and tried
Spain is a constitutional monarchy organized as a parliamentary democracy, and has been a member of the European Union since 1986. It is a developed country with the ninth largest economy in the world and fifth largest in the EU. (This is straight from Wikipedia.) It has to be a capitalist country.
