Spanish order of precedence

The Spanish order of precedence is established by the Madrid, instead of elsewhere in Spain.

Order of precedence in Madrid

1. HM The King (as the monarch)
2. The members of the Royal Family (Familia Real)
3. HM The Queen (as the consort)
4. HRH The Princess of Asturias (as the heiress presumptive)
5. HRH Infanta Sofia (as daughter of the reigning King)
6. The members of the King's family (Familia del Rey) who are not legally members of the Royal Family in the strict sense, but have titles of Majesty or Royal Highness
7. The former monarch and consort
8. HM King Juan Carlos
9. HM Queen Sofia
10. The Infantes of Spain in order of succession rights
11. HRH The Duchess of Lugo
12. HRH Infanta Cristina of Spain
13. HRH The Duchess of Badajoz
14. HRH The Duchess of Hernani and Soria
15. HRH The Duke of Calabria
16. HRH The Duchess of Calabria
17. HRH The Dowager Duchess of Calabria
18. The President of the Government (Prime Minister) - Mariano Rajoy
19. The President of the Congress of Deputies - Jesús Posada
20. The President of the Senate - Pío Garcia Escudero
21. The President of the Constitutional Court - Francisco Pérez de los Cobos
22. The President of the General Council of the Judiciary and of the Supreme Court - Carlos Lesmes
23. The Vice Presidents of the Government
24. The Vice President of the Government and Minister of the Presidency - Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría
25. The Ministers of the Cabinet
26. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation - José García-Margallo y Marfil
27. The Minister of Justice - Rafael Catalá Polo
28. The Minister of Defence - Pedro Morenés
29. The Minister of Finance and Public Administrations - Cristóbal Montoro
30. The Minister of the Interior - Jorge Fernández Díaz
31. The Minister of Public Works - Ana Pastor
32. The Minister of Education - José Ignacio Wert
33. The Minister of Labor - Fátima Báñez
34. The Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism - José Manuel Soria
35. The Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Environment - Miguel Arias Cañete
36. The Minister of the Presidency (currently held by the Vice President)
37. The Minister of Economy and Competitiveness - Luis de Guindos
38. The Minister of Health, Social Policy and Equality - Ana Mato
39. The Dean of the Diplomatic Corps - The Apostolic Nuncio
40. Ambassadors accredited to Spain
41. Former Prime Ministers by order of tenure
42. Felipe Gonzalez
43. José María Aznar
44. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
45. The Presidents of the Autonomous communities of Spain, in order of creation
46. The President of the Basque Country - Iñigo Urkullu
47. The President of Catalonia - Artur Mas
48. The President of Galicia - Alberto Núñez Feijóo
49. The President of Andalusia - Susana Díaz
50. The President of Asturias - Javier Fernández Fernández
51. The President of Cantabria - Miguel Ángel Revilla
52. The President of La Rioja - José Ignacio Ceniceros
53. The President of the Region of Murcia - Pedro Antonio Sánchez
54. The President of the Valencian Community - Ximo Puig
55. The President of Aragón - Javier Lamban
56. The President of Castile-La Mancha - Javier García-Page
57. The President of the Canary Islands - Fernando Clavijo
58. The President of Navarre - Uxue Barkos
59. The President of Extremadura - Guillermo Fernández Vara
60. The President of the Balearic Islands - Francina Armengol
61. The President of the Community of Madrid - Cristina Cifuentes
62. The President of Castile and León - Juan Vicente Herrera
63. The Mayor-President of Ceuta - Juan Jesús Vivas
64. The Mayor-President of Melilla - Juan José Imbroda
65. The Leader of the Opposition - Pedro Sánchez
66. The Mayor of Madrid - Manuela Carmena
67. The Head of the House of His Majesty the King
68. The President of the Council of State
69. The President of Court of Accounts
70. The Attorney General of the State
71. The Ombudsman
72. Secretaries of State and assimilated personnel according to the precedence of their ministries
73. The Chief of the Defense Staff
74. The Chief of Staff of the Army
75. The Admiral Chief of the Naval Staff
76. The Chief of Staff of the Air Force
77. Vice Presidents of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate
78. The Chairman of the Supreme Council of Military Justice
79. The Government's Delegate in Madrid
80. The Deputy Inspector General of the First Military Region
81. The Chief of the Central Jurisdiction of the Navy
82. The Chief of the First Air Region
83. The Secretary-General of the House of His Majesty the King
84. The Head of the Military Chamber of the House of His Majesty the King
85. Under Secretaries and assimilated personnel according to the precedence of their ministries
86. The President of the Madrid Assembly - Juan Trinidad
87. Foreign Chargé d'affaires accredited to Spain
88. The President of the Instituto de España
89. The Chief of Protocol of the State (Director of Protocol of the Presidency of the Government)
90. Directors Generals and Assimilated Personnel
91. Ministers of the Madrid Regional Government
92. Members of the Bureau of the Madrid Assembly
93. The President of the Madrid High Court of Justice
94. The Chief Prosecutor of the Madrid High Court of Justice
95. Deputies and Senators for Madrid
96. The Rector of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) - Carlos Andradas
97. The Rector of the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) - José María Sanz
98. The Rector of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
99. The Rector of the National University for Distance Education (UNED)
100. The Rector of the University of Alcalá
101. The Rector of the Carlos III University (UC3M)
102. The Rector of the Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC)
103. Deputy Mayors of Madrid

Order	Institution	Office	Holder
1	The Head of State	The current Monarch	Felipe VI
2	The immediate Royal Family	The Consort of the Monarch	Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano
		The Heir apparent	Leonor, Princess of Asturias	Infanta Sofia of Spain
		The Former Monarchs	Juan Carlos I of Spain	Sophia of Greece and Denmark
		The Infantes of Spain Infanta Elena of Spain Infanta Cristina of Spain
3	The Head of Government	The President of the Government (PM)	Mariano Rajoy
4	The heads of the legislative power	The President of the Congress of Deputies	Jesús Posada
		The President of the Senate	Pío García Escudero
5	The heads of the judiciary	The Chairperson of the Constitutional Court	Francisco Pérez de los Cobos
		The Chairperson of the General Council of the Judiciary & of the Supreme Court	Carlos Lesmes
6	The Cabinet	First Vice President	Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría
		Minister of Foreign Affairs	José García-Margallo y Marfil
		Minister of Justice	Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón y Jiménez
		Minister of Defence	Pedro Morenés y Álvarez de Eulate
		Minister of Economy	Luis de Guindos Jurado
		Minister of the Interior	Jorge Fernández Díaz
		Minister of Infratucture	Ana Mª Pastor Julián
		Minister of Education, Culture and Sport	José Ignacio Wert Ortega
		Minister of Labor	María Fátima Báñez García
		Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism	José Manuel Soria López
		Minister of Agriculture	Miguel Arias Cañete
		Minister for Public Administrations	Cristóbal R. Montoro Romero
		Minister of Health and Consumption	Ana Mato Adrover
7	The diplomatic corps	The Dean of the Diplomatic Corps	The Papal Nuncio
		Other ambassadors accredited to Spain
8	The former Heads of Government since the transition to democracy, in order of tenure
		PM 1982-1996	Felipe González
		PM 1996-2004	José María Aznar
	PM 2004-2011	José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
9	The Heads of the Autonomous Communities in order of initial enactment of their Charters of Autonomy	Basque Autonomous Community: the Lehendakari	Iñigo Urkullu
		Catalonia: the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya	Artur Mas
		Galicia: the President of the Xunta de Galicia	Alberto Núñez Feijóo
		Andalusia: the President of the Regional Government of Andalusia	Susana Díaz
		Principality of Asturias: the President of the Principality of Asturias	Javier Fernández Fernández
		Cantabria: the President of Cantabria	Miguel AáNgel Revilla
		La Rioja: the President of La Rioja	José Ignacio Ceniceros
		Region of Murcia: the President of the regional government	Pedro Antonio Sanchez
		Valencian Community: the President of the Generalitat Valenciana	Ximo Puig
		Aragón: the President of the Government of Aragon	Javier Lambán
		Castile-La Mancha: the President of the Regional Government	Javier García-Page
		Canary Islands: the President of the regional government	Fernando Clavijo
		Foral Community of Navarre: the President of the foral government	Uxue Barkos
		Extremadura: the President of the Junta de Extremadura	Guillermo Fernandez Vara
		Balearic Islands: the President of the regional government	Francina Armengol
		Community of Madrid: the President of the regional government	Cristina Cifuentes
		Castile and León: the President of the Junta de Castilla y León	Juan Vicente Herrera
		Ceuta: the Mayor-President of the autonomous city	Juan Jesús Vivas
		Melilla: the Mayor-President of the autonomous city	Juan José Imbroda
10	The Leader of the Opposition	Leader of the largest non-government party As of 2013: leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
11	The Mayor of the national capital	The Mayor of Madrid, by constitutional mandate	Manuela Carmena
12	The heads of several civil service branches	The Chief of the King's House
		The Chairman of the Council of State	Francisco Rubio Llorente
		The Chairman of the Court of Accounts
		The Attorney General	Eduardo Torres Dulce
		The Ombudsman	Soledad Becerril
13	Junior branches of the Government	Secretaries of State and assimilated personnel By order of creation of their ministries
14	National military chiefs	Chief of Staff of the Defence (JEMAD)	Gen Adm. Fernando García Sánchez
		Chief of Staff of the Army	Gen. Jaime Domínguez Buj
		Admiral Chief of Staff of the Navy	Gen Adm. Jaime Muñoz-Delgado
		Chief of Staff of the Air Force	Gen. Francisco Javier García Arnáiz
15	Deputy heads of the legislative power	Deputy Speakers of the Congress of Deputies	Teresa Cunillera i Mestres
			Ana María Pastor Julián
			Jorge Fernández Díaz
			Jordi Jané i Guasch
		Vice Presidents of the Senate	Isidre Molas i Batllori
			Juan José Lucas Giménez
16	Head of the Military Jurisdiction	Chairman of the Supreme Council of Military Justice
17	Central Government's Representative	Government's Delegate to Madrid
18	Regional military chiefs	Captain General of the First Military Region
		Chief Admiral of the Central Jurisdiction of the Navy
		Lieutenant General of the First Air Region
19	Royal Household Staff	Secretary General of the Royal Household
		Chief of the Military Quarter of the Royal Household
20	Heads of the Civil Service	Under-secretaries and assimilated personnel
21	Head of the Regional Legislature	Speaker of the Madrid Assembly	Juan Trinidad

Order of Precedence when not in Madrid

• The King or Queen of Spain
• The Queen Consort or the Queen's Consort
• The Prince of Asturias
• The Princess Consort of Asturias
• The Infantes of Spain
• The President of the Government
• The President of the Congress of Deputies
• The President of the Senate
• The Chairperson of the Constitutional Court
• The Chairperson of the General Council of the Judiciary Power
• The First Vice president (if applicable)
• The Second Vice President (if applicable)
• The President of the Autonommous Community where the event is taking place
• Ministers of the government according to the order before mentioned.
• Dean of the Diplomatic Corps
• Foreign ambassadors accredited to Spain
• Former Prime Ministers
• Presidents of other Autonomous Communities according to the order before mentioned
• Leaders of the Opposition
• President of the Community's Legislature
• The Government's Delegate to the Autonomous Community where the event is taking place
• The Mayor of the Place
• The Chief of the House of the King
• The Chairman of the Council of State
• The Chairman of the Auditor Court
• The Attorney General
• The Ombudsman
• Secretaries of State and assimilate personnel
• The Chief of Staff of The Defence
• The Chief of Staff of the Army
• The Admiral Chief of Staff of the Navy
• The Chief of Staff of the Air Force
• Vice Presidents of the Congress and the Senate
• Chairman of the Supreme Council of Military Justice
• Captain General of the Military Region
• General Commander of the Naval Zone
• Lieutenant General of the Aerial Zone
• Commander General of the Fleet
• The Chief of the Military Quarter and Secretary General of the House of the King
• Ministers of the Autonomous Community's Government
• Members of the Bureau of the Community's Legislature
• The Chairman of the Community's High Court
• The Chief Prosecutor of the High Court
• Under Secretaries and Assimilated Personnel
• Secretaries of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate
• Foreign Chargé d'affaires accredited to Spain
• The President of the Instituto de España
• The National Chief of Protocol
• Deputy Government's delegate of the province (where applicable)
• The President of The Provincial Deputation or Insular Council (where applicable)
• Directors Generals and assimilated personnel
• Deputies and Senators for the province
• Rectors of the Universities of the University District where the event is taking place, by order of establishment
• The Insular Government's Delegate (only in Canary and Balearic Islands)
• The Chairman of the Provincial Court
• The Military Governor
• The Chief of the Naval Sector
• The Chief of the Air Sector
• Lieutenant Mayors of the Place
• Military Commanders
• Foreign Consuls

Order of Preference of Spanish Institutions in Madrid

• The Government of Spain
• The Diplomatic Corps accredited to Spain
• The Bureau of the Congress of Deputies
• The Bureau of the Senate
• The Constitutional Court
• The General Council of the Judiciary Power
• The Supreme Court
• The Council of State
• The Auditor Court
• The Office of the President
• Ministries attending to the above order
• The Instituto de España and the Royal Academies
• The Community of Madrid Executive Council
• The Madrid Assembly
• The Madrid High Court of Justice
• The Madrid City Council
• The Universities

Order of Precedence of Spanish Institutions when not in Madrid

• The Government of Spain
• The Diplomatic Corps accredited to Spain
• The Autonomic Executive Council
• The Bureau of the Congress of Deputies
• The Bureau of the Senate
• The Constitutional Court
• The General Council of the Judiciary Power
• The Supreme Court
• The Autonomic Legislature
• The Council of State
• The Auditor Court
  • The Regional High Court of Justice
• The City or Town Council
• The Office of the President
• Ministries attending to the above order
• Autonomic Ministries
• The Instituto de España and the Royal Academies
• Spanish Government's office in the Autonomous Community
• Provincial Deputation or Insular Council
• Provincial Court
• The Universities
• Foreign Consular Offices

External links

• Royal Decree 2009/1983
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