The Provincial Council of Badajoz reorganizes its areas and separates Social Welfare

The Plenary of the Provincial Council of Badajoz approved on October 30, 2026, the modification of the provincial institution’s organic structure, which separates social welfare and international cooperation matters from Culture, Sport, and Youth to establish its own functional area and assigns minor contracting for the cultural area to the Municipal Cooperation delegation. The agreement, proposed by the Presidency on October 29, is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Badajoz number 215, dated November 10, 2026, under announcement reference 4421/2026.

An urgent plenary with 16 votes and ten abstentions

The vote took place in an ordinary session and the file was processed through the urgency section, following a declaration of urgency agreed upon unanimously by those present (item number 3). The result was 16 votes in favor from the deputies of the socialist group, no votes against, and 10 abstentions from the attendees of the popular group.

The Presidency’s proposal replaces and consolidates the agreement on the organic structure and attributions of the functional areas adopted on October 29, 2025 (BOP number 206, dated October 29, 2025, announcement 4611/2025), which will apply regarding delegations until the new distribution takes effect. The trigger stated in the file is the swearing-in as provincial deputy of Juan Manuel Iglesias Carrillo in the plenary session of October 30, 2026, to fill the vacancy left by Ricardo Cabezas Martín.

The invoked jurisdictional framework consists of articles 4.1.a) and 33.2.a) of Law 7/1985, of April 2, regulating the Bases of the Local Regime, article 70.3 of the ROF approved by Royal Decree 2568/1986, of November 28, and article 15.1.a) of the Provincial Organic Regulation (BOP number 179, dated September 19, 2019). The text aligns the organization with the II Sustainable Development Strategy 2024-2027 and the 2030 Agenda.

Twelve functional areas for the remainder of the term

The agreement approves the full consolidated text of the structure, which will govern for the remainder of the 2023-2027 corporate term and is organized into twelve functional areas:

• Presidency and Institutional Relations (1.0).
• Municipal Cooperation and Attention to Mayors (1.1).
• Sustainable Economy, Strategic Procurement and Heritage (1.2).
• Public Employees, Occupational Health and Safety (1.3).
• Innovation and Digital Administration (1.4).
• Infrastructure, Mobility and Territorial Planning (1.5).
• Training and Employment Capacity Building (1.6).
• Rural Development, Demographic Challenge and Tourism (1.7).
• Environmental Sustainability, Energy and Green Territory (1.8).
• Cultural Identity, Sport and Youth (1.9).
• Social Welfare and International Cooperation (1.10), newly created.
• Equality (1.11).

Who manages procurement, works, urban planning and subsidies

The distribution of competencies is delimited in the second section of the agreement and in the functions of each area:

• Centralized procurement and the Contract Management Service correspond to the Area of Sustainable Economy, Strategic Procurement and Heritage, which also assumes the Office of Processes and Evaluation of Public Policies and the Legal Regime and Subsidy Processing Service.
• Works procurement, public works concessions and service contracts linked to investments (project drafting, management, security coordination or geotechnical studies) fall under the Area of Infrastructure, Mobility and Territorial Planning, which integrates the Urban Planning and Housing Service and the Procurement and Economic Management Service.
• Minor procurement and the authorization and disposition of expenditure (phases A and D, or accumulated AD) within the scope of Cultural Identity, Sport and Youth are transferred to the head of the delegation for Municipal Cooperation and Attention to Mayors, as a member of the Governing Board and under article 63.3 of the ROF.
• The approval of settlements, the recognition of obligations and the accumulated authorization, disposition and recognition (ADO), as well as the approval and granting of subsidies from chapters IV and VII, are excluded from this delegation and continue to follow the regime of the budget execution bases and the delegations in force for economy and finance.

Effects, budget and dependent entities

The agreement takes effect from the day following its adoption, although the new distribution of competencies will be effective from the effective date of the decree issued by the Presidency, which must be published in the BOP in accordance with Article 9.3 of Law 40/2015. The affected units retain their credits during 2026, and the organic classification will be adjusted in the 2027 budget; until then, the credits for Cultural Identity, Sport and Youth are allocated to expenditure area 3 of organic classification 11, and those for Social Welfare and International Cooperation to expenditure area 2.

The text also links autonomous bodies and consortia to the provincial strategy: the Autonomous Collection Body (OAR), the PROMEDIO Consortium, the Provincial Fire Prevention and Extinction Consortium (CPEI), the RESTAURA body for the protection of urban legality, and the Provincial Board of the Bullfighting School (OAPET). The Presidency Area also assumes the monitoring of the ERDF financial path assigned to nine action plans totaling 44,558,723.04 euros, according to the provisional resolution of the Directorate General of European Funds of the Ministry of Finance.

The agreement requires the text to be published in the BOP and on the transparency portal, in compliance with Article 6.1 of Law 19/2013; the announcement is signed by the acting secretary general, María Fernanda Correa is not listed; the signature corresponds to María Fernanda Rubio Cortés. The reorganization directly affects the 165 municipalities of the province, which receive legal, economic, and technical assistance, centralized procurement, works plans, and provincial subsidies from these areas.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Badajoz, no. 215, November 10, 2026, Local Administration (Provincial Councils), pp. 2-28 (official reference: announcement 4421/2026).