Cabildo Canaries

The Cabildo of the Canary Islands are also governmental, administrative and representative bodies of the individual islands. They are institutions of the Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias, Spain's Autonomous Communities.

Tasks

Basically, the Cabildo are responsible for all the problems at the local level of municipalities ( Ayuntamiento ) can not be solved, because they relate to an island, but demand on each island an individual solution and thus not generally by the Parliament or the Government of the Communidad should be decided. This applies, inter alia, a large part of the topics of business, economic development, transport, tourism, agriculture, fishing, employment, health, housing, road construction, environmental protection, land use planning, water supply, social welfare, education, youth, culture, sport, etc. Individual Cabildos have establishments or are involved in businesses that promote the objectives of their policy, such as transport, cultural facilities, tourism facilities Every single Cabildo has the right to introduce bills in Parliament of the Canary Islands.

Organs

The Cabildo are directly elected by the people in a list selection.

  • La Presidenta / El Presidente del Cabildo The / the chairman represents the Cabildo in public. The / the Chairman of the Cabildo, directs the policy of the Island Council and is chairman / CEO of the General Assembly. He / She is the director / head of administration of the Cabildo.
  • El pleno The General Assembly consists of all elected deputies. The number of representatives based on the number of eligible voters inhabitants of the island. It is the legislative assembly of each island.
  • El Consejo del Gobierno The Island Council is the executive body of the Cabildo. It consists of members of the majority party or coalition of parties. Individual members are responsible for a certain area. Chairman of the Island Council is the President / President of the Cabildo.
  • Las ' Commissions del pleno The committees consist of representatives of the various parties represented in Parliament. In the decisions of the committees Cabildos be prepared.

History of the Cabildo Insular

The name Cabildo goes back to the name of the governments and administrations of the towns in the Kingdom of Castile. By a law of 11 July 1912, a new administrative level was introduced in the Canary Islands. On each of the islands, which was still all together formed a province, the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a Cabildo were established. As the Canary Islands were divided into two provinces in 1927 were the Cabildo with their tasks and rights preserved. The Spanish political and administrative changes in the period after 1975 led to the Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias, stepped albeit with a completely different structure and direction in place of the two provincial administrations. The tasks of the Cabildo Insular were redefined in relevant laws, but remained in their objective: the same for each island to find and enforce socially and economically appropriate solutions.

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