Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces

The Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) is a Spanish association of local entities that groups town councils, provincial councils, insular councils and insular cabildos. Approximately 7,331 entities are represented.

Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces
Federación Española de
Municipios y Provincias
Logotype of the FEMP

FEMP Headquearters
Federation overview
FormedJune 13, 1981 (1981-06-13)
Jurisdiction Spain
HeadquartersMadrid
Federation executive
Websitewww.femp.es

The founding and statutory aims of the FEMP are the promotion and defense of the autonomy of the Local Entities; The representation and defense of the general interests of Local Entities before other Public Administrations; The development and consolidation of the European spirit at the local level based on autonomy and solidarity among Local Authorities; Promoting and fostering friendly relations and cooperation with Local Authorities and their organizations, especially in the European, Ibero-American and Arab areas; The provision, directly or through companies or entities, of all kinds of services to the Local Corporations or to the entities dependent on them and any other purpose that directly or indirectly affects the Federation's partners.

Foundation

The origins of the FEMP dates back to 1979, when a group of around twenty mayors started a process to increase the recognition of the local administrations. Between 1980 to 1981 those mayors elaborated the internal rules of the FEMP and the constituent assembly met June 13 and 14, 1981.[1]

In 1985, the Federation was officially recognized under the provisions of Additional Provision 5 of Law 7/1985, of April 2, Regulator of the Bases of Local Regime and was declared a Public Utility Association by agreement of the Council of Ministers on June 26, 1985. It is the Spanish section of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), and is the official headquarters of the Ibero-American Organization of Intermunicipal Cooperation (ICCO).

Headquarters

The official headquarters is located at 8 of Nuncio Street, Madrid, in an old house-palace of ends of the 17th century.

Members

The FEMP maintains relations with federations of local entities of autonomic scope following a voluntary pattern, for which a protocol that specifies the relation is signed. There are 17 federations with which this type of protocol has been signed:

With the reform of the procedure of voting of the census of Spanish residents abroad, the institutional participation in the local administration by the 2,406,611[2] Spanish citizens abroad is separated from the municipal elections and is channeled through its own mechanisms such as the Councils of Spanish Residents Abroad,[3] thus generating the challenge of incorporating these Councils as other local Entities[4] as full members of the Federation or in the case of the General Council of Spanish Citizenship Abroad as an Honor partner.

Presidents of the FEMP

The Presidents have been:[5]

References
  1. "Así se gestó la FEMP" (PDF). www.femp.es. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  2. "Statistics of the Register of Spanish residents abroad 2017".
  3. Order AEC / 2172/2010, of July 13, which regulates the constitution, election and operation of the Councils of Spanish residents abroad.
  4. Article 1. of the Statutes of the FEMP: "The Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces is an Association constituted by Municipalities, Islands, Provinces and other Local Authorities that voluntarily decide it"
  5. "Los alcaldes aún tienen que elegir a su presidente: será el 19 de septiembre". La Vanguardia. Retrieved 2017-08-26.
  6. "Abel Caballero, elegido nuevo presidente de la FEMP". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-08-26.

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