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
gollark: My laptop has fish, my servers have zsh.
gollark: observe my immensely powerful laptop.
gollark: Intel actually *only* have open-source drivers, probably because their GPUs are mostly bad anyway and nobody buys them individually, so they can hardly get much out of artificial segmentation like Nvidia.
gollark: AMD and Intel are very good with open source drivers. Nvidia is pure evil, which is why Torvalds famously middle-fingered them.
gollark: You do, however, get nice things like package management, scripting which is actually good, that kind of thing.

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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