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The President of the Government of Spain〔(The English Style Guide (Fifth edition: 2005 Revised: March 2009) ) The English Style Guide (Fifth edition: 2005 Revised: March 2009) published by the European Commission Directorate-General for Translation states the following: 19.29 Spain. Full name: Kingdom of Spain. The 17 political/administrative units into which Spain is divided are called Autonomous Communities in English. Translate Presidente del Gobierno as Prime Minister (of Spain).〕 ((スペイン語:Presidente del Gobierno)), formally known by English-speaking nations and formally translated by the European Commission Directorate-General in English as Prime Minister〔 is the head of Government of Spain. The current office is established under the Constitution of 1978. The King of Spain nominates a candidate for the presidency who stands before the Congress of Deputies of Spain, the lower house of the Cortes Generales (parliament), for a vote of confidence in a process known as a parliamentarian investiture, effectively an indirect election of the head of government by the elected Congress of Deputies. In practice, the Prime Minister is almost always the leader of the largest party in the Congress. Since current constitutional practice in Spain calls for the King to act on the advice of his ministers, the Prime Minister is effectively the country's chief executive. Mariano Rajoy Brey of the People's Party has been the prime minister since he was sworn in on December 21, 2011, after winning the 2011 general election. ==Official title== The Spanish head of government is known, in Spanish, as the ''Presidente del Gobierno''. Literally translated, the title is "President of the Government"〔(Official web site of La Moncloa, the Spanish Prime Minister's Office ) Accessed 2009-03-05〕〔''The Oxford Spanish Dictionary and Grammar'', ed. C.Lea ''et al.'', 2nd ed.(2001)〕 but nevertheless the office-holder is commonly referred to in English as the "prime minister", the usual term for the head of government in a parliamentary system. However the Spanish for "prime minister" is ''primer ministro'' and it is used for other nations' parliamentary heads of government; thus, for example, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the ''Primer Ministro del Reino Unido'', not the ''Presidente del Gobierno del Reino Unido''. In Spain the head of the government is often called simply ''Presidente'', meaning "President". This sometimes causes confusion since it is the usual term for the head of state in a republic; former governor of Florida Jeb Bush once mistakenly referred to incumbent José María Aznar as the "President of the Republic of Spain".〔 (El País 18/02/2003. "Jeb Bush thanks the "President of the Spanish Republic" for his support )〕 The custom to name the head of government as "President" dates back to the reign of Isabella II of Spain, when the official title was ''Presidente del Consejo de Ministros'' ("President of the Council of Ministers"). Before 1833 the figure was known as ''Secretario de Estado'' ("Secretary of State"), a denomination used today for junior ministers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prime Minister of Spain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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