ALBA, Carlos R.
Le gouverneur civil en Espagne : un préfet pas comme les autres - origine, développement et disparition - Paris : IIAP, oct./déc. 2000
The office of civil governor in Spain has a number of precedents. Created in 1849 as the unique high civil authority in each province, the governor had administrative and political functions. However, from the end of the 19th century, the corporate interests of each ministry progressively reduced the area of competences of civil governors which became limited to maters of public order. The regime which succeedes the Spanish civil war reaffimed the end of the governors' competence in administrative matters and reinforced their political role. While a representative of central power, the civil governor was also head of local adminsitration. The Constitution of 1978, however, introduced a government delegated who was hierarchically superior, and then the 1977 statute on the organisation and functioning of State general administration dealt a fatal blow by replacing the civil governor with a sub-delegate of the government, who is subordinate to the government delegate
Le gouverneur civil en Espagne : un préfet pas comme les autres - origine, développement et disparition - Paris : IIAP, oct./déc. 2000
The office of civil governor in Spain has a number of precedents. Created in 1849 as the unique high civil authority in each province, the governor had administrative and political functions. However, from the end of the 19th century, the corporate interests of each ministry progressively reduced the area of competences of civil governors which became limited to maters of public order. The regime which succeedes the Spanish civil war reaffimed the end of the governors' competence in administrative matters and reinforced their political role. While a representative of central power, the civil governor was also head of local adminsitration. The Constitution of 1978, however, introduced a government delegated who was hierarchically superior, and then the 1977 statute on the organisation and functioning of State general administration dealt a fatal blow by replacing the civil governor with a sub-delegate of the government, who is subordinate to the government delegate
