Rank and Positional Flags (Spain)

Last modified: 2005-02-12 by santiago dotor
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• Introduction
• Royal Flags
• Prime Minister and Other High Authorities (Presidente del Gobierno)
• Chief of Defence Staff (Jefe del Estado Mayor de la Defensa)
• Non-existent Minister of Defence rank flag (Minister of the Navy's flag, obsolete 1977)
• Naval Rank Flags

See also:

• Rank Flags 1923-1931 and 1938-1977
• Rank Flags 1931-1939
• Spain

Car flags and pennants are rarely seen nowadays —particularly military rank flags— in order to avoid identification and surveillance by terrorists.

Santiago Dotor, 24 September 1998

Presidente del Gobierno

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by Antonio Gutiérrez, taken with permission from the S.E.V. website

According to Calvo and Grávalos 1983, the flag is the same for the Prime Minister (Spanish official title being Presidente del Gobierno) and for other Ministers.

Santiago Dotor, 24 September 1998

According to the 1977 Decree on flags and Album des Pavillons, this flag is used by:

• the Prime Minister (Presidente del Gobierno),
• Deputy Prime Ministers (Vicepresidentes del Gobierno),
• Ministers,
• the Speaker of Parlia