The Minister of Territorial Policy and Government Spokeswoman, Isabel Rodríguez, highlighted the importance of this Saturday, June 17, the day on which the new municipal corporations of the XII Local Legislature in Spain are constituted: “We celebrate the formation of more than 8,000 municipalities. More than 8,000 people today are elected mayors and mayors and more than 67,000 councilors who represent the policy of proximity in our country take office.”
On behalf of the Government of Spain, the Minister congratulated all the new mayors, wishing them success in their management, “because the success of the towns and cities of Spain will be a collective success as a country”.
Isabel Rodríguez, who has assisted in the formation of the new municipal corporation of the City of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, which has elected Carolina Darias, former Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Service and Health, as the new mayor of the city, has added that Spain is a municipality: “Municipalism has been linked to the democratic advances of the last forty years. Many of these advances were created in our towns and cities. Municipalism is recognized in the Constitution as local autonomy, which grants power to municipalities and that support implies guaranteeing the rights of citizens.”
“A municipalist country, where citizens demand public representatives, closeness, loyalty, commitment and responsibility and where local representatives have ensured democratic advances and compliance with the Constitution,” he continued, while congratulating all the new mayors, mayors, councilors and councilors who today constitute the new local corporations.