Municipalities at a crossroads: the guarantee of facultative public services
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This article inquiries about the current role played by municipalities in the provision of public services. The aim is to verify the typology of services provided by municipal corporations. This task, apparently simple due to the specific regulatory regulations, actually entails some difficulties. Mainly for two reasons: the first, inherent to the types of services provided, not only mandatory, expressed by art. 26 of Law 7/1985 of April 2, regulating the Bases of the Local Regime (LRBRL), but also, and from the investigation perspective, susceptible of being obligatory and facultative; the second difficulty finds its reason in the current Law 27/2013 of December 27, rationalization and sustainability of the Local Administration (LRSAL) which seems to diminish the municipal autonomy with the consequent limitation of the services rendered. Evidently, on the one hand it is necessary to previously establish a common language that would serve as a basis to understand the issues dealt with and, secondly, although briefly, it is important to approach the historical context of the municipality that has finally characterized current municipalism.