page_title: Ceuta
section_title: Politics
hierarchical_section_title: Ceuta / Politics
caption_attribution_description: Palacio de la Asamblea de Ceuta
context_page_description: Ceuta is a Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa.
  Bordered by Morocco, it lies along the boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean and is one of nine populated Spanish territories in Africa and, along with Melilla, one of two populated Spanish territories on mainland Africa. It was part of province of Cádiz until 14 March 1995. On that date Statutes of Autonomy were passed for both Ceuta and Melilla.
  Ceuta, like Melilla and the Canary Islands, was classified as a free port before Spain joined the European Union. Its population consists of Christians, Muslims and small minorities of Sephardic Jews and ethnic Sindhi Hindus from modern-day Pakistan.
  Spanish is the official language. Darija Arabic is also spoken by the 40–50% of the population who are of Moroccan origin.
context_section_description: Since 1995, Ceuta is, along with Melilla, one of the two autonomous cities of Spain.
  Ceuta is known officially in Spanish as Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta (English: Autonomous City of Ceuta), with a rank between a standard Spanish city and an autonomous community. Ceuta is part of the territory of the European Union. The city was a free port before Spain joined the European Union in 1986. Now it has a low-tax system within the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union. As of 2018, its population was 85,144.
  Ceuta has held elections every four years since 1979, for its 25-seat assembly. The leader of its government was the Mayor until the Autonomy Statute had the title changed to the Mayor-President. As of 2011, the People's Party (PP) won 18 seats, keeping Juan Jesús Vivas as Mayor-President, which he has been since 2001. The remaining seats are held by the regionalist Caballas Coalition (4) and the Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE, 3).
  Due to its small population, Ceuta elects only one member of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Spanish legislature. As of the November 2019 election, this post is held by María Teresa López of Vox.
caption: The Palacio de la Asamblea de Ceuta is the seat of the Assembly of Ceuta.
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