Junta (governing body)

Junta (/ˈhʊntə/ or /ˈdʒʌntə/) is a Spanish, Portuguese and Italian (giunta) term for a civil deliberative or administrative council. In English, Military Junta predominantly refers to the government of an authoritarian state run by high-ranking officers of a military.

Not to be confused with military junta.

In Italy a giunta is the civil executive of regions (see Regions of Italy#Institutions) and of municipalities (comune, see Comune#Importance and function).

An earlier, different use of the term in English was the Whig Junto, a political faction in early 18th-century Britain.

It is not related to the Sanskrit word Janatā (also transliterated as Jantā and Juntā), which refers to the public/people/masses.

Since 2014 the word has been used in political propaganda by the Russian authorities to denigrate the government of Ukraine, with terms such as Ukrainskaya, Kievskaya and Banderovskaya (or Benderovskaya) junta being used, among others.[1][2][3]

Historical examples
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gollark: If I was forced to write all osmarks.net backend services as highly optimized C or something, they would probably be buggier, slower, less maintainable and lacking features.
gollark: Ah, but people have to make computers faster to make the continually worsening code keep running.
gollark: Well, the pay is good.
gollark: I occasionally write surprisingly good code which ends up continuing to function properly without any maintenance, but this is quite rare.

See also

References
  1. Aleksey Kochetkov. Ukrainskaya junta is (украинская хунта это). Bloody crimes of the Banderovskaya junta. Litres, 2017. ISBN 5040254121, ISBN 9785040254125. (in Russian)
  2. Kievskaya junta swims to war (Киевская хунта плывет на войну). Komsomolskaya Pravda. 21 November 2018
  3. Andrey Okara. An ideal plan of the Russian Federation in demonization of Kiev (Идеальный план РФ по демонизации Киева). NV (Novoye vremya). 31 July 2015
  4. Hoeffel, Paul (March 25, 2016). "Junta takes over in Argentina: archive, 25 March 1976" – via www.theguardian.com.
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