[citation needed] The Council appoints a presiding officer, titled the Síndic general, and a deputy, the subsíndic.

The General Council has the second-highest proportion of women legislators (behind the lower house of the Rwandan legislature), and the highest in the developed world.

Councillors were elected by the population,[6] and the council appointed syndics to manage the administration of the principality.

The General Council was dissolved on their order in June 1933, and a special election called to re-elect it.

Later that year, a seventh parish (Escaldes-Engordany) was formed, bringing the numbers of councillors to twenty-eight.