The segregation of Usansolo with respect to Galdakao is staggering, after the central government has denied its registration in the Registry of Local Entities. The reason is that it has not proven to have a population of at least 5,000 inhabitants, according to the resolution of the Ministry of Territorial Policy.
Usansolo still belongs to Galdakao, a municipality with close to 30,000 inhabitants and located a few kilometers from Bilbao. The possible disengagement of Usansolo became a claim that gained strength starting in the 1990s, when a platform was created that claimed it.
Supporters of Usansolo being an independent municipality have been emphasizing that this population center is located more than 4 kilometers from the center of Galdakao and that it would be better administered autonomously, attending to its problems and idiosyncrasies from the proximity. The demand for disengagement became a majority during the past decades and, at the local level, definitive steps were taken to make it possible.
The General Meetings of Bizkaia approved in November of last year the segregation of Usansolo from the municipality of Galdakao and its constitution as a new municipality, after which on May 4 the Management Commission of what would be the municipality number 113 of the Biscayan territory was established.
That same month, the Manager requested the registration of Usansolo in the Registry of Local Entities of the Ministry of Territorial Policy, a step that has been rejected given that, according to its resolution, “compliance with the requirement established in article 13.2 has not been accredited. of Law 7/1985, of April 2, regulating the Bases of Local Regime, regarding the fact that newly created municipalities may only be constituted on the basis of territorially differentiated population centers of at least 5,000 inhabitants”.
The president of the Manager, Agustín Aizpuru, regretted that the denial of registration leaves Usansolo “a bit in limbo” since it continues “to be a municipality but without the possibility of management”, given that, without complying with this step, there is no “possibility after contracting, economic availability, you do not have aid…”.
After communicating the decision of the central government, he specified, an appeal may be filed through administrative channels and request, “based on legal grounds, that they register” Usansolo, for which he has a period of two months after the resolution was communicated. . A legal process can also be opened against this decision.
The Manager will decide in the coming days “which of the two paths to take or if both are taken at the same time”, in coordination with the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and the Galdakao City Council.
The agreement of the Bizkaia Boards for the segregation of Galdakao and the constitution as a new municipality is being appealed by the State Attorney before the Contentious Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Basque Country (TSJPV), considering that it violates the requirement that the new municipalities have at least 5,000 inhabitants, as established in the Local Regime Base Law.
The Foral Regulation of Territorial Demarcations of Bizkaia, for its part, indicates that for segregation to take place, both the new municipality and the original must have a population of at least 2,500 inhabitants and that both must be financially sustainable and have sufficient resources to compliance with municipal powers. Usansolo had 4,520 inhabitants at the date of the start of the file for its disengagement.
