Granada Metropolitan Area

Capital

The city of Granada is the capital of the province of the same name, and therefore, located in the city are all the administrative bodies of the provincial government and state.

As part of Andalusia is a provincial delegation from each of the councils of government, coordinated by a delegate and the Government of Spain depending on the government’s delegate in the autonomous region.

It also is located in the seat of the Diputacion Provincial de Granada. Many companies and agencies have placed their provincial offices here because it is a private sector and provincial capital.

Municipal organization

The political administration of the city is through a City Council, whose members are democratically elected every four years. The electoral roll is composed of all residents over 18 who are registered in Grenada and Spain and other members of the European Union.

According to the Law on the General Electoral Regime, which determines the number of councilors chosen for the population of the municipality, the Municipal Corporation of Granada is formed by 27 councilors.

In the last municipal elections in 2007, the constitution of the City Council was 16 councilors belonging to the Popular Party, 9 to the Socialist Party (PSOE), and 2 councilors belonging to the United Left (IU). Following these results, the Municipal Council elected Mayor Jose Torres Hurtado PP for four years.

Since it has established democracy, there has been a change in the governance of the city between the two major parties PP and PSOE.

The metropolitan area of Granada is composed of 50 municipalities and the capital, but not yet formally constituting, as political and administrative is having a large population growth, as it is receiving many of the capital stock of the rest of the province.

Due to the fact that the city is losing population and people are deciding to set up residence in neighboring towns, there are several utilities that are pooled. The main causes of the relocation from the capital to the people of the metropolitan area raises the difficulty of access to housing in the capital by having such high prices for work and because more industrial sites are being built in these locations.