The Municipality of Artziniega requested a delay of six months to Urkidetza to decide on the future of the latter Biscayan municipality. On Thursday at noon the extraordinary assembly is held to resolve this issue and, according to a report submitted by the local entity, the dissolution procedure is contrary to the consortium’s statutes.

The Municipality of Artziniega has asked for some time to analyse the proposal before making the decision to enter the consortium, as explained by Joseba Vivanco. According to the mayor, “the decision to dissolve the consortium has come quickly, without time to analyze the possibilities on the table.”

Legal report on the Bureau

The City of Artziniega commissioned a legal report on the legitimacy of the procedure followed to resolve the dissolution of the consortium, after adopting a motion to postpone for six months the decision to resolve the future of the CAKU.

In fact, the CAKU presidency and the CAKU Governing Board transferred the decision to dissolve it to the entities that make up the consortium. However, it points out that the consortium’s statutes can only be proposed by the entities. “A decision to take from bottom to top has come from top to bottom,” Vivanco explained.

In fact, the legal report concludes that both the Presidency and the Governing Board have exercised competences that are not for them to dissolve the consortium.

Possible alternatives

The City Council has denounced that local authorities have only been given two options in view of the dissolution of the Cantabrian Cohort. The consortium’s statutes also offer other alternatives. For example, if two entities of different levels renounce the dissolution of the consortium, they will have the right to remain in the consortium.

This possibility is being studied in Artziniega, before it is incorporated into the Urbide consortium, promoted by the Provincial Council of Álava.

Meeting on Thursday

The ordinary assembly of the CAKU will be held on Thursday at 13:00 a.m. and then at 14:00 a.m. in an extraordinary session in which the dissolution will be voted on. Another situation could arise with the legal report on the table, in the City Hall’s view: to suspend the vote and to delay the future of the consortium for six months.