1. Local authorities shall be organised into municipalities.
2. Local authorities may be created at supra-municipal level, taking specific
cultural and historical features and levels of development into consideration.
3. The law may also establish, in accordance with specific conditions, other
infra-municipal scales for the territorial organization of autonomous local
government.
Article 219
(Responsibilities)
Under the terms of the law, local authorities shall have responsibilities in the spheres
of education, health, energy, water, rural and urban facilities, heritage, culture and
science, transport and communications, leisure time and sporting activities, housing,
social services, civil defence, the environment and basic sanitation, consumer rights,
the promotion of economic and social development, town and country planning, the
municipal police force, decentralised cooperation and twinning.
Article 220
(Local authority bodies)
1. Local authority organisations shall comprise an Assembly with decisionmaking powers, a collegiate executive body and a President.
2. The Assembly shall be composted of local representatives elected by the
universal, equal, free, direct, secret and periodic suffrage of the citizens who
comprise the electorate in the respective local authority area, in accordance
with the system of proportional representation.
3. The collegiate executive body shall be composed of a President and the
secretaries he appoints, all of whom shall be accountable to the local
government Assembly.
4. The Chair of the local authority executive body shall be the first candidate on
the list that received the most votes for the Assembly.
5. Nominations for election to local authority bodies may be submitted by
political parties, either individually or as coalitions, or by groups of registered
electors, under the terms of the law. (Projects B and C – approved by
consensus)
Article 221
(Administrative supervision)
1. Local authorities shall be subject to administrative supervision by the
Executive.
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