The intermediate local governments (diputaciones provinciales) in Castilla-La Mancha local law
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This article reviews the treatment of provinces and intermediate local governments (diputaciones provinciales) in the Autonomous Statute of Castilla-La Mancha and its Autonomous Community law. The article deals with this issue from a historical perspective (elaboration of the Autonomous Statute in 1982 and subsequent amendments); a theoretical and institutional point of view (analyzing the system of distribution of competences among provinces in Castilla-La Mancha); and, finally, the article adopts a broader picture studying how the Autonomous Community law regarding local law (entered into force in 1991) and the amendments of the Autonomous Statute of Castilla-La Mancha have recognized the case-law of the Constitutional Court on this issue, the other Autonomous Community reforms of their Autonomous Statutes launched in 2006 and the current trends at the State level (the “Local Agreement”). Moreover, the article deals with the Autonomous Community law regarding local law and states that the rules related to intermediate local governments have been barely technically or politically effective, and neither the political and social debate about the subsistence of intermediate local governments (diputaciones provinciales) launched in 2011 has been useful for rethinking and reordering the institutional design.