Both cities need to unify public companies in the identical territory: “We have a leg on both sides” The mayor of Torà, on the change earlier than the elections: “It can be unusual for us to vote for the Regional Council of La Segarra after which transfer on to Solsonès “Both municipalities have been demanding the change for 12 years: “We need to preserve proximity and have all the things on one aspect of the border”
“Changing the area after the municipal elections can generate a considerably unusual state of affairs.” This is the situation confronted by the residents of Biosca and Torà, two cities in Lleida that belong to Segarra and have been demanding for twelve years to grow to be a part of Solsonès. A process that has already reached Parliament, though its effectiveness could possibly be determined on the polls and handed on Sunday, May 28, 2023.
Both Torà, with 1,200 inhabitants, and Biosca, with 200, don’t really feel their wants are mirrored within the area they belong to. In truth, they don’t have all public companies built-in in the identical place. This is the case of well being, the place they’re a part of the well being area of Central Catalonia, with hospitals in Igualada or Manresa as reference facilities, when by area they’d correspond to Lleida.
“We need to hold it by proximity,” explains the mayor of Torà, Magí Coscollola. “You are nearer to the big hospitals in Barcelona you probably have an emergency, but when it’s important to go to Lleida, as deliberate, I might take the wrong way plus 50 minutes by ambulance from the municipality.”
administrative matter
An administrative matter that might not indicate any change at a specific stage amongst residents. “Everyone will purchase the place they need and have associates the place they need, logically. What we would like is to have all the things in a single a part of the border, not like now, when we have now one leg on both sides.”
An instance of that is that they’re a part of the judicial district, the Property Registry and the Solsona Local Tax Collection and Management Office, “This sort of area has a sort of assist that’s not in Segarra”. Also, amongst different causes for the change, is its historic hyperlink with Solsonès.
“At a geographical and panorama stage we’re extra related. Even the kind of heritage, such because the Torres de guaita, or Dolmens. La Segarra hardly has any prehistoric websites. In truth, we have now many authentic items from Torà within the Solsona or Manresa museum, however none within the Lleida museum”, provides the Catalan mayor.
Reasons of “minor order”, however that additionally affect. “In the personal sphere, everybody goes the place they need, it isn’t a major motive for the change. It is true that we have now the northern a part of the municipality that tends to go to Solsona. But altering the area because of this wouldn’t be justified”, ditch the mayor of Torah
potential session
The want is getting nearer and the regulation could possibly be accredited in a month. However, ERC and the CUP will current an modification to suggest a well-liked session to determine the way forward for the municipalities. Some phrases that might lengthen the method, though the textual content supplies that the incorporation in Solsonès would grow to be efficient after the municipal elections.
“A session appears good to us, however we have now the disadvantage that we’re months away from the municipal elections and in accordance with the session regulation there isn’t a materials time to do it earlier than the elections. It can be unusual that our votes have gone to configure the Regional Council de la Segarra after which let’s transfer on to Solsonès”, highlights the mayor of the municipality.
In truth, each municipalities requested the Government to submit the regional change to a referendum in 2014, a proposal that they annulled because it was an unique choice of the Parliament of Catalonia. Twelve years later, the proposal has reached the plenary session with the proposal of the PSC, agreeing to the processing by the one studying process to expedite the method.