Calzadilla de los Barros: new deputy mayor and Governing Board

The Plenary of the City Council of Calzadilla de los Barros agreed by absolute majority to appoint Nuria Lucas Rojas as deputy mayor and to constitute the Municipal Governing Board, in an extraordinary session held on November 4, 2026. The agreement is published in today’s Official Gazette of the Province of Badajoz, Tuesday November 10, 2026 (bulletin no. 215), under announcement 4408/2026, within the Local Administration section. The resolution bears the signature of the mayor-president, María de Gracia Lucas Pinilla.

Delegation of the Mayoralty

The appointment of Nuria Lucas Rojas as deputy mayor entails the express delegation of the functions of the mayoralty in situations of absence, vacancy, illness, and other cases provided for in current legislation. The plenary agreement further establishes that, in her absence, these functions shall be assumed by the Second Deputy Mayor.

The appointment is framed within the municipal organization regime provided for in Law 7/1985, of April 2, regulating the Bases of the Local Regime, which grants the mayor the power to appoint deputy mayors from among the councilors of the corporation. The published text does not detail the remuneration or the dedications of the appointed officials.

The Municipal Governing Board is composed of two members:

• María de Gracia Lucas Pinilla, mayor-president.
• Nuria Lucas Rojas, deputy mayor.

Representation in Supramunicipal Bodies

The same Plenary agreement distributes the corporation’s representations in collegiate bodies and supramunicipal entities, with three members in each of the most significant entities:

• Mancomunidad de Municipios Río Bodión: María de Gracia Lucas Pinilla, Nuria Lucas Rojas, and María de los Ángeles Merino Rojas.
• Ceder Zafra Río Budión: María de Gracia Lucas Pinilla, Nuria Lucas Rojas, and María de los Ángeles Merino Rojas.
• Mancomunidad de Tentudía: María de Gracia Lucas Pinilla, Nuria Lucas Rojas, and María de los Ángeles Merino Rojas.

In the case of the Mancomunidad de Municipios Río Bodión, the Plenary reinforces the role of the mayor with two singular designations: María de Gracia Lucas Pinilla will be the sole representative of the corporation with voting rights in the election of the personal governing bodies of the mancomunidad and also the sole representative on the Special Accounts Commission of that entity. Consequently, the municipality’s vote in the decision-making bodies of the mancomunidad is concentrated in a single person.

Distribution of Competencies Among Councilors

The agreement completes the internal organization with the assignment of management areas to the councilors, which are distributed into two blocks:

• Agriculture, Livestock, and Cadastre: Nuria Lucas Rojas and Ismael Galván González.
• Works, Projects, and Cemetery: María de Gracia Lucas Pinilla and Nuria Lucas Rojas.

The deputy mayor thus accumulates the areas of agriculture, livestock, cadastre, works, projects, and cemetery, while the mayor-president shares the last two and assumes institutional representation in the associations of municipalities and in the rural development group.

Relevance

Announcement 4408/2026 closes the organizational design of the City Council of Calzadilla de los Barros for the final stretch of the term and clarifies the substitution of the mayoralty, a key aspect in a small population municipality where administrative continuity depends on very few people. The concentration of representations in the mayor and the deputy mayor simplifies the council’s dialogue with the Mancomunidad de Municipios Río Bodión and the Mancomunidad de Tentudía, entities that manage shared services and employment programs in the region. The agreement comes barely a month after the same city council published the initial approval of its 2026 general budget and the final approval of the fiscal ordinance for the hostel fee, procedures that must now be executed by the new municipal government team.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Badajoz, No. 215, November 10, 2026, Local Administration (official reference: announcement 4408/2026).