The subdelegate of the Government in Pontevedra, Abel Losada, announced today that the Government makes available 1.5 million euros to the Provincial Council of Pontevedra to help the municipalities of the province of less than 20,000 inhabitants to modernize their management systems of the register. This financial aid that the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory specifically directs to the deputations, with a total allocation of 64.1 million for the whole of Spain, will accelerate the modernization of the registers with which all municipalities must comply before August 2026 according to a recent regulatory change.
In total, the amount pre-allocated by the Government for the province amounts to 1.5 million euros, so it is up to the Provincial Council of Pontevedra to request and distribute this State aid among the municipalities of the province with less than 20,000 inhabitants as final recipients. Abel Losada wanted to encourage the provincial body to join this call, which will remain open until April 1 of this year and will be “fundamental to achieve a modern and digital local administration”.
At the provincial level, 52 municipalities with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants of Pontevedra will be able to benefit from this aid. Abel Losada stressed that, in addition to the improvement of the register, a new system of information exchange with the National Institute of Statistics (INE) will be implemented. This will change the information from being shared on a monthly basis to being available for the INE in real time. The state agency will publish a technical guide to help in this technological change. “Spain is at the forefront of transparency and speed in electoral processes, largely due to the quality of the census,” said Abel Losada, who highlighted this new step. This respect recalled that in the last Autonomous Elections there were only two claims of voters for errors throughout the province of Pontevedra, which gives a clear idea of the very high level of quality of the census.
The subdelegate reported that, in addition, this aid, from the NextGenerationEU funds, will allow municipalities to build a municipal housing database, unified at national level, which must also be available from 2026. This base will identify each house from its cadastral reference and will have tools for updating the information.
“We are talking about an unprecedented advance towards a digitized, automated and data-centric public administration,” said the deputy delegate, who also demonstrates “the unstoppable impact of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR) in all fields and at all levels.”