A junta, more fully a military junta, is a system of government led by a committee of military leaders. The term junta means meeting or committee and originated with the national and local juntas organized by the Spanish resistance to Napoleon's invasion of Spain; it is now used to describe an authoritarian government characterized by a politically dominant group of military officers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Military juntas function as a specific institutional form of oligarchy, concentrating political authority in a small group of ranking officers rather than a single ruler or broad electorate.
A junta is a ruling council typically composed of, and dependent for its authority on, the officer corps of a standing army, most documented in twentieth-century Latin American and other military coups.
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A military junta is a system of government led by a committee of military leaders.
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