The Provincial Council of Guadalajara is the public institution in charge of the Government and the autonomous administration of the province of Guadalajara (Spain).[2] It has its headquarters in the Palace of the Provincial Council, located in the city of Guadalajara "Guadalajara (Spain)"), capital of the province.
Competencies and services
The provincial councils are responsible for coordinating municipal services among themselves to guarantee comprehensive and adequate provision to guarantee the principles of solidarity&action=edit&redlink=1 "Solidarity (etymology) (not yet written)") and inter-municipal economic balance, within the framework of economic and social policy; of legal, economic and technical assistance and cooperation to Municipalities, especially those with less economic and management capacity; of the provision of public services of a supramunicipal nature; of cooperation in the promotion of economic and social development and in planning in the provincial territory, and of the promotion and administration of the peculiar interests of the province.[3].
To fulfill these objectives, the Provincial Council of Guadalajara has a series of services aimed mainly at city councils and citizens of the province, divided between different service areas:
• - Infrastructure area: Provides help to municipalities in contracting public and civil works and architectural and urban planning services.
• - Area of social welfare, equality and citizenship: Provides service through a child care center located in Guadalajara.
• - New technologies area: Provides advice to city councils on information and communication technologies and develops a provincial IT plan for municipalities.
• - Education area: Includes folklore and dance schools and the Guadalajara Provincial Council Music Band").
• - Culture area: On which the Center for Photography and Historical Image of Guadalajara (CEFIHGU), a researchers' library and the Exhibition Hall of the Guadalajara Provincial Council depend.
• - Sports area: Maintains the San José sports center and the Sailing School of the Guadalajara Provincial Council).
• - Tourism Area: It is in charge of tourism promotion in the province.
Deep supramunicipal management
Introduction
The Provincial Council of Guadalajara is the public institution in charge of the Government and the autonomous administration of the province of Guadalajara (Spain).[2] It has its headquarters in the Palace of the Provincial Council, located in the city of Guadalajara "Guadalajara (Spain)"), capital of the province.
Competencies and services
The provincial councils are responsible for coordinating municipal services among themselves to guarantee comprehensive and adequate provision to guarantee the principles of solidarity&action=edit&redlink=1 "Solidarity (etymology) (not yet written)") and inter-municipal economic balance, within the framework of economic and social policy; of legal, economic and technical assistance and cooperation to Municipalities, especially those with less economic and management capacity; of the provision of public services of a supramunicipal nature; of cooperation in the promotion of economic and social development and in planning in the provincial territory, and of the promotion and administration of the peculiar interests of the province.[3].
To fulfill these objectives, the Provincial Council of Guadalajara has a series of services aimed mainly at city councils and citizens of the province, divided between different service areas:
• - Infrastructure area: Provides help to municipalities in contracting public and civil works and architectural and urban planning services.
• - Area of social welfare, equality and citizenship: Provides service through a child care center located in Guadalajara.
• - New technologies area: Provides advice to city councils on information and communication technologies and develops a provincial IT plan for municipalities.
• - Education area: Includes folklore and dance schools and the Guadalajara Provincial Council Music Band").
• - Culture area: On which the Center for Photography and Historical Image of Guadalajara (CEFIHGU), a researchers' library and the Exhibition Hall of the Guadalajara Provincial Council depend.
• - Environmental area: Advises local councils on environmental protection.
• - Economic promotion area: Through the so-called Development Group it promotes employment and economic development of municipalities, innovation and economic promotion.
• - Municipal assistance area: Provides support to municipalities by providing legal and technical assistance, in the form of legal and verbal opinions and reports; financial assistance, with advice on these issues including preparing municipal budgets, and administrative assistance with support in the performance of public functions reserved for Local Administration personnel.
• - Health area: Through the management of the Socio-Health Center Provincial Hospital").
• - Municipal cooperation area: Establishes several regional centers of the Provincial Council in Sigüenza, Molina de Aragón, Cogolludo, Cifuentes and Pastrana.
• - Treasury area: Through a provincial collection service, it manages local taxes from 270 municipalities in the province, which do not have their own means to carry out this management due to the complexity and high costs that it entails.
In addition, the Provincial Council of Guadalajara has several autonomous organizations that provide service to the different municipalities of the province:
• - Provincial Fire Extinction Consortium: It is in charge of providing the fire service to small municipalities through several fire stations established in Guadalajara "Guadalajara (Spain)"), Sigüenza, Molina de Aragón and Sacedón.
• - Provincial Urban Solid Waste Consortium: It is in charge of treating waste from the municipalities of the province through the Torija Urban Waste Treatment Plant) and other minor waste located in Molina de Aragón, Sigüenza and Sacedón.
• - Provincial Conservatory of Music: Taught different musical disciplines at the San José complex) in Guadalajara.
• - Sports Foundation: It is responsible for managing the sports facilities dependent on the Provincial Council of Guadalajara and for radiating sports activity to the different municipalities of the province.
To provide some of these services, the Guadalajara Provincial Council owns and manages the San José complex), located in the center of Guadalajara, where the dance and folklore schools, the San José sports center, the provincial music conservatory, the Príncipe Don Felipe residence), the researchers' library, the headquarters of the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Guadalajara and the provincial collection service, among others, are established.
Organization
The Provincial Council is made up of a Plenary Session and a Government Board:.
• - The Provincial Corporation makes up the Plenary Session of the Provincial Council, made up of twenty-five provincial deputies, among whom the president of the Provincial Council and one or more vice presidents are appointed. The deputies are elected indirectly among the mayors and councilors elected in the municipal elections following as electoral constituency the judicial parties "Judicial Party (Spain)"), with a maximum of fifteen corresponding to the judicial party of Guadalajara, four to the judicial party of Molina de Aragón and six to the Sigüenza party.
Palace of the Provincial Council of Guadalajara.
• - The Government Board is made up of the president of the Provincial Council and a number not exceeding one third of the deputies that make up the Plenary Session, of which the Vice President(s) are also part. The Governing Board is structured into different areas that distribute the executive powers of the Provincial Council, and which in turn can be structured into Delegations entrusted to the delegated deputies. In the 2007-2011 legislature, ten members of the Provincial Corporation plus the president form the Governing Board and it is structured into five areas of competence:
Area of municipal development and institutional relations.
Sustainable resources area.
Area of public function, internal regime and socio-sanitary care, which also includes a Deputy delegate of economy and finance.
Infrastructure area.
Service area, which is structured into four Delegations: Sports and culture, Economic promotion, industry, commerce and fire brigade consortium, Social welfare, equality and citizenship and Education.
History
The origins: The Provincial Council of Guadalajara with Molina
The Spanish Constitution of 1812 entrusted the government of the provinces to the provincial councils, bodies that would be newly created, following the constitution of the planned new Spanish territorial division. The constitution of these was carried out by the provincial superior boards), dependent on the Central Supreme Board created as a temporary government of Spain in the middle of the War of Independence. At first, two provincial higher boards were coordinated, the Superior Board of Guadalajara and the Superior Board of the Señorío de Molina, one of the last reminiscences of the seigneurialization in Spain. Thus, in the middle of the war, on April 25, 1813, the Provincial Council of Guadalajara was established with Molina. The place chosen for this was the town of Anguita "Anguita (Guadalajara)"), an ideal location for this event due to its geography and importance, and also to avoid the battles that occurred in the capital and other larger towns in the province. The provincial boundaries then did not fully coincide with the current ones and were formed by the judicial districts of Anguita"), Atienza, Brihuega, Cifuentes, Cogolludo, Guadalajara, Molina, Pastrana, Sigüenza and Torrelaguna.
The Provincial Council would be chaired by the political leader. In 1814 Fernando VII would reinstate absolutism, so the provincial deputations were abolished until the liberal pronouncement of Rafael de Riego in 1820, which would lead to their resurgence. Like the other provincial councils that were abolished, on April 23, 1820, the Provincial Council of Guadalajara would be re-established with Molina. The return of absolutism in 1823 at the hands of the one hundred thousand children of San Luis would once again dissolve the provincial deputations.
Restoration of the liberal regime of 1833
The restoration of the liberal regime in 1833 after the death of Ferdinand VII would lead to the projection by Javier de Burgos of a new Spanish territorial division into provinces and the definitive reinstatement of the provincial councils. One of the 49 provinces created would be that of Guadalajara, which would be governed through the Provincial Council of Guadalajara, established on November 15, 1835 with that name already definitively, and whose headquarters would travel between various buildings in the capital until the inauguration of the Palace of the Provincial Council in 1883. The provincial councils were established as the main instrument of the Central Government to be able to extend and consolidate the new administration, its main task being to act as the highest hierarchical body of the town councils, over which it exercises strong executive control. Thus, the Provincial Council would be presided over by the political head, first, and then by the civil governor, later when the first changed its name in 1847. It would also be composed of a Plenary Session, which would have relative power with respect to the Political Head, made up of the provincial deputies elected by the municipalities following the constituency of the judicial parties "Judicial Party" (Spain)"). These would then be those of Brihuega, Cifuentes, Guadalajara, Miedes (since 1835, from Atienza), Molina, Pastrana, Sacedón, Sigüenza, and Tamajón (at various times, from Cogolludo).
In these years the Provincial Council would assume a series of powers based on charity, public education, the construction and conservation of local roads and agricultural, livestock and commercial development. Following the charitable powers, the Provincial Council, given the large number of wounded in the Carlist wars, makes an agreement with various Catholic congregations for the establishment of a civil and military hospital in the convent of Los Remedios&action=edit&redlink=1 "Convento Jerónimo de los Remedios (Guadalajara) (not yet written)") of Guadalajara. He also inaugurated one even in the convent of La Concepción&action=edit&redlink=1 "Convento de la Concepción (Guadalajara) (not yet written)") of Guadalajara that was added to the existing ones in Sigüenza and Atienza. He also improved the facilities of the Trillo hot spring baths.
Regarding public education, the Provincial Council inaugurated the provincial public library), the provincial museum, the secondary school and the Normal School of Teachers.
In relation to the improvement of local roads, the Provincial Council could do little except collaborate in the construction of some sections of national highways that passed through the province, such as that from Madrid to Logroño and Pamplona, or that of some other provincial highways included in the General Highway Plan of 1860.
Competing in the promotion of agricultural, livestock and commercial initiatives, the Provincial Council was only able to carry out measures to protect and promote the primary sector based basically on "Subsidy (Right)" subsidies and compensation, as well as the granting of licenses to some mining operations such as the Hiendelaencina silver mines).
Restoration and Second Republic
With the Spanish Constitution of 1869, the functions of the provincial councils were consolidated within the Spanish political system"). To this end, one of the first major decisions of the Plenary of the Provincial Council was in 1878 the construction of the Casa Palacio de la Diputación Provincial "Palacio de la Diputación (Guadalajara)"), which would fix the headquarters in a specific place and stop being itinerant. The new headquarters of the Provincial Council was inaugurated with the celebration of a Plenary session on November 20, 1882.
In 1896 the Provincial Council experienced a serious institutional crisis when the majority of provincial deputies considered the election of the conservative Román Morencos" as president to be fraudulent. The crisis was resolved two years later with the replacement of Morencos as head of the presidency by the liberal Ricardo Martínez y Martínez").
During this time the existence of the province as a Spanish political-territorial entity was consolidated. In the Assembly of Castilian Provincial Councils"), convened by the Palencia Provincial Council in 1894, the Guadalajara Provincial Council made a determined defense of the existence of the institution of the province at a time when regionalist tendencies were beginning to gain strength&action=edit&redlink=1 "Regionalism (politics) (not yet written)") in many areas of Spain. However, for several decades the ideological debate was noticeable in the province of Guadalajara, where the conservatives, as defenders of regionalism, made a plea in favor of suppressing the provinces or, at least, leaving them as a last resort from the point of view of political power, and the liberals spoke out in favor of maintaining the institution. This last line would finally be imposed, with the Provincial Council speaking out on several occasions in favor of provincialism and defending their maintenance in the Assembly of Spanish Provincial Councils") held in Barcelona in March. 1931.[5].
From the institutional point of view, the Provincial Council underwent a profound reform in its organic structure to adapt to the different legal provisions that appeared between 1868 and 1931:[6].
• - The Presidency of the Provincial Council. Until the institutional reform of the provincial councils in 1868, the presidency of the Institution corresponded to the civil governor. The first president, Diego García Martínez, was elected from the Government Board created during the revolution of 1868. However, until the Provincial Law of 1870 the figure of President was not established. Since then, he has been elected by the Peno, independently of the Civil Government, so the Provincial Council has a certain autonomy from the central Government, although the civil governor continues to attend the plenary sessions of the Provincial Council.
• - The . In the new era it continues to be the highest body of the Provincial Council and maintains the same powers as in the previous one, although it begins to have autonomy with respect to the civil governor, although its sessions continued to be closely controlled by the City Councils.
Francoism
After the last Civil War and with the establishment of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, the provincial councils began a stage of subordination to the Central Government by losing their local administrative autonomy. The deputations remain a mere Peripheral Administration of the State"). Thus, the president of the Deputation is elected no longer by the Plenary Session from among its members, but is appointed by the Minister of the Interior. Likewise, the civil governor once again is an assistant to the plenary sessions and supervisor of their agreements.
The Plenary Session of the Provincial Council was renamed Managing Commission until, with the reform of 1949, it regained its original name. In addition to being supervised by the civil governor, it loses regulatory powers in matters as important as the Budgets of the Provincial Council itself, which are subject to the Ministry of Finance. Half of the deputies were elected in each judicial district from among the mayors and councilors of the corresponding district and the other half through the so-called "organic elections").
The commissions were established in 1945[8] for the study and preparation of certain sections of issues such as charity, health, urban planning, agriculture, livestock and reforestation, education and public works. At the mercy of these commissions, in 1949 the Government Commission was established, made up of the president and the deputies who were members of each of the sections of the commissions.
Migrations to large cities during the 1960s caused the depopulation of many areas of the province of Guadalajara. And with it, a new readjustment of the judicial districts of the province, in which the Courts of First Instance and Instruction of Atienza, Brihuega, Cogolludo, Cifuentes, Pastrana and Sacedón were left vacant.[9] Thus, these judicial districts are integrated into that of Guadalajara, except for Atienza, which would be integrated into the judicial district of Sigüenza.
A certainly regionalist sentiment&action=edit&redlink=1 "Guadalajaran Regionalism (politics) (not yet written), which affirms Guadadalajara as patria chica, and impregnated by the liberal provincialism of the first decades of the century although adapted to the circumstances of the Franco regime, it was led by intellectuals such as Francisco Layna Serrano or José de Juan García"). This sentiment led to the Provincial Council institutionalizing in 1962 the Day of the Province that was celebrated until 1978 without a specific day.
Between 1944 and 1953, the Provincial Council dedicated a large part of its resources to the construction of the San José Provincial School), which would replace the old foundling houses. The Provincial Hospital was also expanded with new medical services and a psychiatric center.
In this period, the provincial councils had a strong role in the adaptation and improvement of local roads and the telephone network. In 1942, a new plan for local roads was approved that sought to connect all the towns in the province.[10].
1978 Constitution
The Spanish Constitution of 1978 establishes the autonomy of the provinces for the management of their own interests,[11] and the Provincial Council will be the one who manages the Government and the autonomous administration of the province.[12] In this way, the Provincial Council has freed itself from all tutelage of the central Government, both with regard to its composition and its operation, and the provincial deputies are elected through municipal elections, and its President among them, who is They complement the Government Commission and the Informative and Special Commissions.
In the constituent period, the provinces take center stage as a territorial public entity grouping municipalities, with their own legal personality, defined in the Constitution itself, and from which the autonomous communities will be born. In the pre-autonomous agreement of Castilla-La Mancha of 1978 it was not ratified by the Provincial Council of Guadalajara; The initial intention of the Guadalajara provincial government was to be able to establish itself in an autonomous community with the province of Madrid, a possibility that the Segovia Provincial Council also considered. Finally, under the pretext of demographic and socioeconomic differences, and the State's intention to create something similar to a federal district in Madrid, the option of establishing an autonomous community that included the provinces of Madrid, Guadalajara and Segovia was ruled out. The possibility of being left out of the autonomous game, contrary to the path that the rest of the Spanish provinces had taken, and the pressure from the pre-autonomous Government of Castilla-La Mancha, headed by the Guadalajara native and defender of the inclusion of the province of Guadalajara in that autonomous community, Antonio Fernández-Galiano, finally led the Government Commission of the Provincial Council of Guadalajara to accept the inclusion of the province of Guadalajara in Castilla-La Mancha, which would occur in the summer of 1982, shortly before the approval of the Statute of Autonomy of Castilla-La Mancha by the Cortes Generales.
Since then, most of the powers that the Provincial Council had were assumed by the autonomous community, and the Local Regime Bases Law of 1985 establishes the functioning of the provinces. The Provincial Council is ultimately responsible for ensuring the comprehensive and adequate provision of services under municipal jurisdiction throughout the entire provincial territory and for coordinating relations between the municipalities and the autonomous community and the State.[13].
In 1998, the then president of the Guadalajara Provincial Council, Francisco Tomey, was implicated in a corruption case in which he allegedly urged the then president of Caja Guadalajara to grant a series of high-risk loans to companies run by friends of Tomey himself.[14] He was also denounced for an alleged case of alteration of the Provincial Council's accounts. The case, known as the , was finally archived by the Supreme Court as it did not appreciate the crime of falsification in a public document.[15].
• - BALLESTEROS SAN JOSÉ, Plácido, and others. Historical guide to the Provincial Council of Guadalajara (1813-2001). Guadalajara Provincial Council. Guadalajara, 2001. ISBN 84-87791-44-1.
• - Wikimedia Commons hosts a multimedia category on Provincial Council of Guadalajara.
• - Website of the Guadalajara Provincial Council.
• - Development Group of the Provincial Council. Archived December 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
[2] ↑ "El Gobierno y la administración autónoma de las provincias estarán encomendados a Diputaciones u otras Corporaciones de carácter representativo". Artículo 141.2 de la Constitución española de 1978.
[5] ↑ Ponencia sobre la Ley Orgánica Provincial, aprobada por la Asamblea de Diputaciones. Imprenta de la Casa Provincial de la Caridad. Barcelona, 1931.
[6] ↑ Las distintas normas que afectaron a la estructuración institucional de la Diputación fueron: Ley orgánica provincial de 21 de octubra de 1968; Ley Provincial de 20 de agosto de 1870; Ley provincial de 2 de octubre de 1877; Ley provincial de 29 de agosto de 1882; Real Decreto de 18 de diciembre de 1913, sobre la Mancomunidad de provincias; Real Decreto de 12 de enero de 1824, sobre la disolución de las diputaciones; Estatuto Provincial de 20 de marzo de 1925, y Decreto de 21 de abril de 1931, sobre el nombramiento de Comisión Gestora para las diputaciones.
[7] ↑ Gaceta de Madrid de 19 de marzo de 1872.
[8] ↑ Ley de Bases de Régimen Local de 17 de julio de 1945.
[11] ↑ Art. 137 de la Constitución española de 1978: "El Estado se organiza territorialmente en municipios, en provincias y en las Comunidades Autónomas que se constituyan. Todas estas entidades gozan de autonomía para la gestión de sus respectivos intereses.".
[12] ↑ Art. 141.2 de la Constitución española de 1978: "El Gobierno y la administración autónoma de las provincias estarán encomendados a Diputaciones u otras Corporaciones de carácter representativo.".
[16] ↑ Hasta la reforma de 1868, ejercieron las funciones de Presidente de la Diputación el Jefe Político, primero, y Gobernador Civil, después.
• - Sports area: Maintains the San José sports center and the Sailing School of the Guadalajara Provincial Council).
• - Tourism Area: It is in charge of tourism promotion in the province.
• - Environmental area: Advises local councils on environmental protection.
• - Economic promotion area: Through the so-called Development Group it promotes employment and economic development of municipalities, innovation and economic promotion.
• - Municipal assistance area: Provides support to municipalities by providing legal and technical assistance, in the form of legal and verbal opinions and reports; financial assistance, with advice on these issues including preparing municipal budgets, and administrative assistance with support in the performance of public functions reserved for Local Administration personnel.
• - Health area: Through the management of the Socio-Health Center Provincial Hospital").
• - Municipal cooperation area: Establishes several regional centers of the Provincial Council in Sigüenza, Molina de Aragón, Cogolludo, Cifuentes and Pastrana.
• - Treasury area: Through a provincial collection service, it manages local taxes from 270 municipalities in the province, which do not have their own means to carry out this management due to the complexity and high costs that it entails.
In addition, the Provincial Council of Guadalajara has several autonomous organizations that provide service to the different municipalities of the province:
• - Provincial Fire Extinction Consortium: It is in charge of providing the fire service to small municipalities through several fire stations established in Guadalajara "Guadalajara (Spain)"), Sigüenza, Molina de Aragón and Sacedón.
• - Provincial Urban Solid Waste Consortium: It is in charge of treating waste from the municipalities of the province through the Torija Urban Waste Treatment Plant) and other minor waste located in Molina de Aragón, Sigüenza and Sacedón.
• - Provincial Conservatory of Music: Taught different musical disciplines at the San José complex) in Guadalajara.
• - Sports Foundation: It is responsible for managing the sports facilities dependent on the Provincial Council of Guadalajara and for radiating sports activity to the different municipalities of the province.
To provide some of these services, the Guadalajara Provincial Council owns and manages the San José complex), located in the center of Guadalajara, where the dance and folklore schools, the San José sports center, the provincial music conservatory, the Príncipe Don Felipe residence), the researchers' library, the headquarters of the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Guadalajara and the provincial collection service, among others, are established.
Organization
The Provincial Council is made up of a Plenary Session and a Government Board:.
• - The Provincial Corporation makes up the Plenary Session of the Provincial Council, made up of twenty-five provincial deputies, among whom the president of the Provincial Council and one or more vice presidents are appointed. The deputies are elected indirectly among the mayors and councilors elected in the municipal elections following as electoral constituency the judicial parties "Judicial Party (Spain)"), with a maximum of fifteen corresponding to the judicial party of Guadalajara, four to the judicial party of Molina de Aragón and six to the Sigüenza party.
Palace of the Provincial Council of Guadalajara.
• - The Government Board is made up of the president of the Provincial Council and a number not exceeding one third of the deputies that make up the Plenary Session, of which the Vice President(s) are also part. The Governing Board is structured into different areas that distribute the executive powers of the Provincial Council, and which in turn can be structured into Delegations entrusted to the delegated deputies. In the 2007-2011 legislature, ten members of the Provincial Corporation plus the president form the Governing Board and it is structured into five areas of competence:
Area of municipal development and institutional relations.
Sustainable resources area.
Area of public function, internal regime and socio-sanitary care, which also includes a Deputy delegate of economy and finance.
Infrastructure area.
Service area, which is structured into four Delegations: Sports and culture, Economic promotion, industry, commerce and fire brigade consortium, Social welfare, equality and citizenship and Education.
History
The origins: The Provincial Council of Guadalajara with Molina
The Spanish Constitution of 1812 entrusted the government of the provinces to the provincial councils, bodies that would be newly created, following the constitution of the planned new Spanish territorial division. The constitution of these was carried out by the provincial superior boards), dependent on the Central Supreme Board created as a temporary government of Spain in the middle of the War of Independence. At first, two provincial higher boards were coordinated, the Superior Board of Guadalajara and the Superior Board of the Señorío de Molina, one of the last reminiscences of the seigneurialization in Spain. Thus, in the middle of the war, on April 25, 1813, the Provincial Council of Guadalajara was established with Molina. The place chosen for this was the town of Anguita "Anguita (Guadalajara)"), an ideal location for this event due to its geography and importance, and also to avoid the battles that occurred in the capital and other larger towns in the province. The provincial boundaries then did not fully coincide with the current ones and were formed by the judicial districts of Anguita"), Atienza, Brihuega, Cifuentes, Cogolludo, Guadalajara, Molina, Pastrana, Sigüenza and Torrelaguna.
The Provincial Council would be chaired by the political leader. In 1814 Fernando VII would reinstate absolutism, so the provincial deputations were abolished until the liberal pronouncement of Rafael de Riego in 1820, which would lead to their resurgence. Like the other provincial councils that were abolished, on April 23, 1820, the Provincial Council of Guadalajara would be re-established with Molina. The return of absolutism in 1823 at the hands of the one hundred thousand children of San Luis would once again dissolve the provincial deputations.
Restoration of the liberal regime of 1833
The restoration of the liberal regime in 1833 after the death of Ferdinand VII would lead to the projection by Javier de Burgos of a new Spanish territorial division into provinces and the definitive reinstatement of the provincial councils. One of the 49 provinces created would be that of Guadalajara, which would be governed through the Provincial Council of Guadalajara, established on November 15, 1835 with that name already definitively, and whose headquarters would travel between various buildings in the capital until the inauguration of the Palace of the Provincial Council in 1883. The provincial councils were established as the main instrument of the Central Government to be able to extend and consolidate the new administration, its main task being to act as the highest hierarchical body of the town councils, over which it exercises strong executive control. Thus, the Provincial Council would be presided over by the political head, first, and then by the civil governor, later when the first changed its name in 1847. It would also be composed of a Plenary Session, which would have relative power with respect to the Political Head, made up of the provincial deputies elected by the municipalities following the constituency of the judicial parties "Judicial Party" (Spain)"). These would then be those of Brihuega, Cifuentes, Guadalajara, Miedes (since 1835, from Atienza), Molina, Pastrana, Sacedón, Sigüenza, and Tamajón (at various times, from Cogolludo).
In these years the Provincial Council would assume a series of powers based on charity, public education, the construction and conservation of local roads and agricultural, livestock and commercial development. Following the charitable powers, the Provincial Council, given the large number of wounded in the Carlist wars, makes an agreement with various Catholic congregations for the establishment of a civil and military hospital in the convent of Los Remedios&action=edit&redlink=1 "Convento Jerónimo de los Remedios (Guadalajara) (not yet written)") of Guadalajara. He also inaugurated one even in the convent of La Concepción&action=edit&redlink=1 "Convento de la Concepción (Guadalajara) (not yet written)") of Guadalajara that was added to the existing ones in Sigüenza and Atienza. He also improved the facilities of the Trillo hot spring baths.
Regarding public education, the Provincial Council inaugurated the provincial public library), the provincial museum, the secondary school and the Normal School of Teachers.
In relation to the improvement of local roads, the Provincial Council could do little except collaborate in the construction of some sections of national highways that passed through the province, such as that from Madrid to Logroño and Pamplona, or that of some other provincial highways included in the General Highway Plan of 1860.
Competing in the promotion of agricultural, livestock and commercial initiatives, the Provincial Council was only able to carry out measures to protect and promote the primary sector based basically on "Subsidy (Right)" subsidies and compensation, as well as the granting of licenses to some mining operations such as the Hiendelaencina silver mines).
Restoration and Second Republic
With the Spanish Constitution of 1869, the functions of the provincial councils were consolidated within the Spanish political system"). To this end, one of the first major decisions of the Plenary of the Provincial Council was in 1878 the construction of the Casa Palacio de la Diputación Provincial "Palacio de la Diputación (Guadalajara)"), which would fix the headquarters in a specific place and stop being itinerant. The new headquarters of the Provincial Council was inaugurated with the celebration of a Plenary session on November 20, 1882.
In 1896 the Provincial Council experienced a serious institutional crisis when the majority of provincial deputies considered the election of the conservative Román Morencos" as president to be fraudulent. The crisis was resolved two years later with the replacement of Morencos as head of the presidency by the liberal Ricardo Martínez y Martínez").
During this time the existence of the province as a Spanish political-territorial entity was consolidated. In the Assembly of Castilian Provincial Councils"), convened by the Palencia Provincial Council in 1894, the Guadalajara Provincial Council made a determined defense of the existence of the institution of the province at a time when regionalist tendencies were beginning to gain strength&action=edit&redlink=1 "Regionalism (politics) (not yet written)") in many areas of Spain. However, for several decades the ideological debate was noticeable in the province of Guadalajara, where the conservatives, as defenders of regionalism, made a plea in favor of suppressing the provinces or, at least, leaving them as a last resort from the point of view of political power, and the liberals spoke out in favor of maintaining the institution. This last line would finally be imposed, with the Provincial Council speaking out on several occasions in favor of provincialism and defending their maintenance in the Assembly of Spanish Provincial Councils") held in Barcelona in March. 1931.[5].
From the institutional point of view, the Provincial Council underwent a profound reform in its organic structure to adapt to the different legal provisions that appeared between 1868 and 1931:[6].
• - The Presidency of the Provincial Council. Until the institutional reform of the provincial councils in 1868, the presidency of the Institution corresponded to the civil governor. The first president, Diego García Martínez, was elected from the Government Board created during the revolution of 1868. However, until the Provincial Law of 1870 the figure of President was not established. Since then, he has been elected by the Peno, independently of the Civil Government, so the Provincial Council has a certain autonomy from the central Government, although the civil governor continues to attend the plenary sessions of the Provincial Council.
• - The . In the new era it continues to be the highest body of the Provincial Council and maintains the same powers as in the previous one, although it begins to have autonomy with respect to the civil governor, although its sessions continued to be closely controlled by the City Councils.
Francoism
After the last Civil War and with the establishment of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, the provincial councils began a stage of subordination to the Central Government by losing their local administrative autonomy. The deputations remain a mere Peripheral Administration of the State"). Thus, the president of the Deputation is elected no longer by the Plenary Session from among its members, but is appointed by the Minister of the Interior. Likewise, the civil governor once again is an assistant to the plenary sessions and supervisor of their agreements.
The Plenary Session of the Provincial Council was renamed Managing Commission until, with the reform of 1949, it regained its original name. In addition to being supervised by the civil governor, it loses regulatory powers in matters as important as the Budgets of the Provincial Council itself, which are subject to the Ministry of Finance. Half of the deputies were elected in each judicial district from among the mayors and councilors of the corresponding district and the other half through the so-called "organic elections").
The commissions were established in 1945[8] for the study and preparation of certain sections of issues such as charity, health, urban planning, agriculture, livestock and reforestation, education and public works. At the mercy of these commissions, in 1949 the Government Commission was established, made up of the president and the deputies who were members of each of the sections of the commissions.
Migrations to large cities during the 1960s caused the depopulation of many areas of the province of Guadalajara. And with it, a new readjustment of the judicial districts of the province, in which the Courts of First Instance and Instruction of Atienza, Brihuega, Cogolludo, Cifuentes, Pastrana and Sacedón were left vacant.[9] Thus, these judicial districts are integrated into that of Guadalajara, except for Atienza, which would be integrated into the judicial district of Sigüenza.
A certainly regionalist sentiment&action=edit&redlink=1 "Guadalajaran Regionalism (politics) (not yet written), which affirms Guadadalajara as patria chica, and impregnated by the liberal provincialism of the first decades of the century although adapted to the circumstances of the Franco regime, it was led by intellectuals such as Francisco Layna Serrano or José de Juan García"). This sentiment led to the Provincial Council institutionalizing in 1962 the Day of the Province that was celebrated until 1978 without a specific day.
Between 1944 and 1953, the Provincial Council dedicated a large part of its resources to the construction of the San José Provincial School), which would replace the old foundling houses. The Provincial Hospital was also expanded with new medical services and a psychiatric center.
In this period, the provincial councils had a strong role in the adaptation and improvement of local roads and the telephone network. In 1942, a new plan for local roads was approved that sought to connect all the towns in the province.[10].
1978 Constitution
The Spanish Constitution of 1978 establishes the autonomy of the provinces for the management of their own interests,[11] and the Provincial Council will be the one who manages the Government and the autonomous administration of the province.[12] In this way, the Provincial Council has freed itself from all tutelage of the central Government, both with regard to its composition and its operation, and the provincial deputies are elected through municipal elections, and its President among them, who is They complement the Government Commission and the Informative and Special Commissions.
In the constituent period, the provinces take center stage as a territorial public entity grouping municipalities, with their own legal personality, defined in the Constitution itself, and from which the autonomous communities will be born. In the pre-autonomous agreement of Castilla-La Mancha of 1978 it was not ratified by the Provincial Council of Guadalajara; The initial intention of the Guadalajara provincial government was to be able to establish itself in an autonomous community with the province of Madrid, a possibility that the Segovia Provincial Council also considered. Finally, under the pretext of demographic and socioeconomic differences, and the State's intention to create something similar to a federal district in Madrid, the option of establishing an autonomous community that included the provinces of Madrid, Guadalajara and Segovia was ruled out. The possibility of being left out of the autonomous game, contrary to the path that the rest of the Spanish provinces had taken, and the pressure from the pre-autonomous Government of Castilla-La Mancha, headed by the Guadalajara native and defender of the inclusion of the province of Guadalajara in that autonomous community, Antonio Fernández-Galiano, finally led the Government Commission of the Provincial Council of Guadalajara to accept the inclusion of the province of Guadalajara in Castilla-La Mancha, which would occur in the summer of 1982, shortly before the approval of the Statute of Autonomy of Castilla-La Mancha by the Cortes Generales.
Since then, most of the powers that the Provincial Council had were assumed by the autonomous community, and the Local Regime Bases Law of 1985 establishes the functioning of the provinces. The Provincial Council is ultimately responsible for ensuring the comprehensive and adequate provision of services under municipal jurisdiction throughout the entire provincial territory and for coordinating relations between the municipalities and the autonomous community and the State.[13].
In 1998, the then president of the Guadalajara Provincial Council, Francisco Tomey, was implicated in a corruption case in which he allegedly urged the then president of Caja Guadalajara to grant a series of high-risk loans to companies run by friends of Tomey himself.[14] He was also denounced for an alleged case of alteration of the Provincial Council's accounts. The case, known as the , was finally archived by the Supreme Court as it did not appreciate the crime of falsification in a public document.[15].
• - BALLESTEROS SAN JOSÉ, Plácido, and others. Historical guide to the Provincial Council of Guadalajara (1813-2001). Guadalajara Provincial Council. Guadalajara, 2001. ISBN 84-87791-44-1.
• - Wikimedia Commons hosts a multimedia category on Provincial Council of Guadalajara.
• - Website of the Guadalajara Provincial Council.
• - Development Group of the Provincial Council. Archived December 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
[2] ↑ "El Gobierno y la administración autónoma de las provincias estarán encomendados a Diputaciones u otras Corporaciones de carácter representativo". Artículo 141.2 de la Constitución española de 1978.
[5] ↑ Ponencia sobre la Ley Orgánica Provincial, aprobada por la Asamblea de Diputaciones. Imprenta de la Casa Provincial de la Caridad. Barcelona, 1931.
[6] ↑ Las distintas normas que afectaron a la estructuración institucional de la Diputación fueron: Ley orgánica provincial de 21 de octubra de 1968; Ley Provincial de 20 de agosto de 1870; Ley provincial de 2 de octubre de 1877; Ley provincial de 29 de agosto de 1882; Real Decreto de 18 de diciembre de 1913, sobre la Mancomunidad de provincias; Real Decreto de 12 de enero de 1824, sobre la disolución de las diputaciones; Estatuto Provincial de 20 de marzo de 1925, y Decreto de 21 de abril de 1931, sobre el nombramiento de Comisión Gestora para las diputaciones.
[7] ↑ Gaceta de Madrid de 19 de marzo de 1872.
[8] ↑ Ley de Bases de Régimen Local de 17 de julio de 1945.
[11] ↑ Art. 137 de la Constitución española de 1978: "El Estado se organiza territorialmente en municipios, en provincias y en las Comunidades Autónomas que se constituyan. Todas estas entidades gozan de autonomía para la gestión de sus respectivos intereses.".
[12] ↑ Art. 141.2 de la Constitución española de 1978: "El Gobierno y la administración autónoma de las provincias estarán encomendados a Diputaciones u otras Corporaciones de carácter representativo.".
[16] ↑ Hasta la reforma de 1868, ejercieron las funciones de Presidente de la Diputación el Jefe Político, primero, y Gobernador Civil, después.
Plenary of the Provincial Council
Between 1868 and 1925 the deputies of the Plenary were elected by the voters within the electoral constituency of the judicial party "Judicial Party (Spain)"). With the Provincial Statute of 1925, half of the deputies would be elected by the voters of the province as a single electoral constituency (the direct deputies "), and the other half among the councilors of the different City Councils (the corporate deputies ").
• - The Provincial Commission. It is a new body created with the Provincial Law of 1870. Until 1882, it was assigned some contentious-administrative functions, the preparation of Plenary affairs and monitoring the exact execution of its agreements.
• - Also, during these decades, a greater internal administrative structure is developed that has a complete staff of officials.
The powers acquired by the Provincial Council are regarding charity, public education, highways and roads and the promotion of agricultural, industrial and commercial activities.
Among the actions within its powers carried out by the Institution, for charity, the expansion of the Guadalajara hospital between 1880 and 1933, and the construction between 1929 and 1933 of the new Provincial Hospital building, stood out.
Regarding public education, the Provincial Council, apart from the maintenance of the secondary school and the Normal School of Teachers), carried out the construction of schools in all the municipalities of the province and the School Colonies of Solanillos) during the 1930s. It also continued to maintain the Library and the Provincial Museum, which would be installed in the palace of the Provincial Council "Palacio de la Diputación Provincial (Guadalajara)").
Another of the main actions of the Guadalajara Provincial Council during these years was that described by the Road Plan of 1880 and, above all, by the General Plan of Neighborhood Roads of the Province of Guadalajara of 1885, in which the arrangement and construction of several roads that crossed the province were planned, including up to twenty-three bridges that would cross the waters of the rivers. The Provincial Council is also planning the construction of several railway lines that would cross the entire province. Finally, none of those promoted by the Provincial Council would be built despite the approval of many of them and only the Tajuña railway from Madrid to Alocén was built around that time.
The extension of telephony in Spain by the *National Telephony Plan") of 1917 led to the Provincial Council encouraging spending on the installation of telephone lines to many of the municipalities that the PTN did not reach, in a plan that was completed in the 1930s. In 1887, at the initiative of the Provincial Council, the Provincial Jail and the Provincial Court were built.
Regarding the territorial adjustments made in the province, in 1867 the judicial districts of Tamajón and Sacedón were suppressed. The second was replaced in February 1872, while Tamajón had to wait until March due to the constant controversy over its capital status "Capital (political)") and, therefore, name, which was finally resolved in favor of Cogolludo.[7].
To complete the actions of the Provincial Council and favor the credit operations of farmers and ranchers in a province where the primary sector was still the majority, in 1964 it created the Guadalajara Provincial Savings Bank.
Tomey case
Plenary of the Provincial Council
Between 1868 and 1925 the deputies of the Plenary were elected by the voters within the electoral constituency of the judicial party "Judicial Party (Spain)"). With the Provincial Statute of 1925, half of the deputies would be elected by the voters of the province as a single electoral constituency (the direct deputies "), and the other half among the councilors of the different City Councils (the corporate deputies ").
• - The Provincial Commission. It is a new body created with the Provincial Law of 1870. Until 1882, it was assigned some contentious-administrative functions, the preparation of Plenary affairs and monitoring the exact execution of its agreements.
• - Also, during these decades, a greater internal administrative structure is developed that has a complete staff of officials.
The powers acquired by the Provincial Council are regarding charity, public education, highways and roads and the promotion of agricultural, industrial and commercial activities.
Among the actions within its powers carried out by the Institution, for charity, the expansion of the Guadalajara hospital between 1880 and 1933, and the construction between 1929 and 1933 of the new Provincial Hospital building, stood out.
Regarding public education, the Provincial Council, apart from the maintenance of the secondary school and the Normal School of Teachers), carried out the construction of schools in all the municipalities of the province and the School Colonies of Solanillos) during the 1930s. It also continued to maintain the Library and the Provincial Museum, which would be installed in the palace of the Provincial Council "Palacio de la Diputación Provincial (Guadalajara)").
Another of the main actions of the Guadalajara Provincial Council during these years was that described by the Road Plan of 1880 and, above all, by the General Plan of Neighborhood Roads of the Province of Guadalajara of 1885, in which the arrangement and construction of several roads that crossed the province were planned, including up to twenty-three bridges that would cross the waters of the rivers. The Provincial Council is also planning the construction of several railway lines that would cross the entire province. Finally, none of those promoted by the Provincial Council would be built despite the approval of many of them and only the Tajuña railway from Madrid to Alocén was built around that time.
The extension of telephony in Spain by the *National Telephony Plan") of 1917 led to the Provincial Council encouraging spending on the installation of telephone lines to many of the municipalities that the PTN did not reach, in a plan that was completed in the 1930s. In 1887, at the initiative of the Provincial Council, the Provincial Jail and the Provincial Court were built.
Regarding the territorial adjustments made in the province, in 1867 the judicial districts of Tamajón and Sacedón were suppressed. The second was replaced in February 1872, while Tamajón had to wait until March due to the constant controversy over its capital status "Capital (political)") and, therefore, name, which was finally resolved in favor of Cogolludo.[7].
To complete the actions of the Provincial Council and favor the credit operations of farmers and ranchers in a province where the primary sector was still the majority, in 1964 it created the Guadalajara Provincial Savings Bank.
