Cabildo Insular

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The Cabildos Insulares (Singular: Cabildo Insular ) of the Canary Islands are at the same time the government, administrative and representative body of the respective island. They are institutions of the Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias .

tasks

Basically, the Cabildos Insulares are responsible for all problems that cannot be solved at the local level of the municipal administrations ( Ayuntamientos ) because they affect an entire island, but require an individual solution on each island and therefore not generally through the Gobierno de Canarias (the Administration of the Autonomous Community). This affects a large part of the topics economy, economic development, transport, tourism, agriculture, fishing, employment, health care, housing, road construction, environmental protection, spatial planning, drinking water supply, social affairs, education, youth, culture, sport, etc.

Some Cabildos own operations or have interests in companies that promote the goals of their policies, e.g. B. Transport companies, cultural institutions, tourism institutions Each individual Cabildo has the right to introduce bills in the Parliament of the Canary Islands.

organs

The Cabildos are elected directly by the population in a list election.

  • El Presidente / La Presidenta del Cabildo : the chairperson represents the Cabildo in public. The chairperson of the Cabildos determines the policy of the Island Council and is chairperson of the assembly. He / She is the head of the administration of the Cabildo.
  • El Pleno : the assembly consists of all elected MPs. The number of MPs depends on the number of residents of the island who are eligible to vote. It is the legislative assembly of the respective island.
  • Las Comisiones del Pleno : the committees consist of representatives from the various parties represented in the plenary. Resolutions of the Cabildo are prepared in the committees.
  • El Consejo del Gobierno : the island council is the executive body of the Cabildos. It consists of members of the majority party or the coalition parties. The individual members are responsible for a specific area of ​​responsibility. The chairman of the island council is the president of the Cabildos.

History of the Cabildos Insulares

The name Cabildo goes back to the names of the governments and administrations of the cities in the Kingdom of Castile . A law of July 11, 1912 introduced a new administrative level in the Canary Islands. A cabildo was set up on each of the islands, which at that time all together formed a province, the then province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. When the Canary Islands were divided into two provinces in 1927, the Cabildos with their tasks and rights were retained. The political and administrative changes in Spain in the period after 1975 meant that the two provincial administrations were replaced by the Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias , albeit with a completely different structure and direction. The tasks of the Cabildos Insulares were redefined in the corresponding laws, but remained the same in their aim: to find and implement socially and economically appropriate solutions for each island.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Estatuto de Autonomía de Canarias , Article 8, Paragraph 2. Ed. By the Presidential Office of the Canaries: Boletín Oficial del Estado , December 31, 1996, accessed on October 29, 2016 (Spanish).
  2. a b Organization chart of the Cabildos. Cabildo de Tenerife, May 23, 2012, archived from the original on June 21, 2012 ; Retrieved October 29, 2016 (Spanish).
  3. Estatuto de Autonomía de Canarias , Article 12, Paragraph 5. Ed. By the Presidential Office of the Canaries: Boletín Oficial del Estado , December 31, 1996, accessed on October 29, 2016 (Spanish).
  4. Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General. TÍTULO IV, Disposiciones especiales para la elección de Cabildos Insulares Canarios, Artículo doscientos uno. In: Boletin Oficial de Estado. Jefatura del Estado, June 21, 1985, accessed June 20, 2013 (Spanish).
  5. Marcos Guimerá Peraza: Historia de la Ley de Cabildos. Cabildo de Lanzarote, August 28, 2012, accessed October 29, 2016 (Spanish).
  6. ^ Estatuto de Autonomía de Canarias . Published by the Presidential Office of the Canary Islands: Boletín Oficial del Estado , December 31, 1996, accessed October 29, 2016 (Spanish).