Elimination of mancomunidades announced, first step towards reducing number of townhalls?
The government has announced that it will table a bill to eliminate all mancomunidades across Spain. In brief, a mancomunidad is an association of townhalls which in theory gets the neighbouring mayors together to discuss issues and handle certain local services. In practice, they’re an outdated association left over from the Franco days (and long before that) which usually duplicate services run by other branches of the government, if they do anything at all. The Continue reading Elimination of mancomunidades announced, first step towards reducing number of townhalls?