PNV requests legislative change in Congress of Deputies

The Minister of Territorial Policy, Elizabeth Rodriguezexplained in the Congress of Deputies that the “Government is more about uniting than dividing”, but that it respects all positions, including those of the Galdakao City Council”, in line with Usansolo’s disengagement, but has indicated that “the The position of the Spanish government is what determines the law, which stipulates that the threshold must be 5,000 inhabitants.”

Usansolo’s claim to secede from Galdakao was reached in the Congress of Deputies this Wednesday. During the plenary meeting this morning, the PNV deputy Mikel Legarda He recalled that the citizens of Usansolo had already voted three times in favor of this division of the municipality of Galdakao; the last time, on March 27, where 81.5% of the neighbors and neighbors decided they want an independent Usansolo from Galdakao

In this regard, he explained that the provincial parliament of Vizcaya has changed the territorial regulations for municipal demarcations, requiring a new municipality to have territorially segregated population centers, sufficient resources and more than 2,500 inhabitants.

However, the state law points to a population center of more than 5,000 inhabitants, so that it can be formed as a municipality, although the PNV deputy has foreseen that by the year 2033 Usansolo will exceed that number of inhabitants, which currently stands. at about 4,600.

However, he has asked the minister whether Pedro Sánchez’s executive will be an “obstacle” to the demands of the citizens of Usansolo or “respect the will of the regional law of Bizkaia”. However, it was replied that “regardless of our considerations, the position of the government cannot be different from the position established by law”.