CONFLICTIVIDAD SOCIAL Y POLÍTICA EN LOS INICIOS DE LA DEMOCRACIA. LA CONSTITUCIÓN DEL MUNICIPIO DE EL EJIDO (ALMERÍA)

Resumen

El nacimiento de El Ejido resultó ser un caso único en la provincia de Almería de división de un municipio en dos diferentes. Se trató de un procedimiento tan atípico como conflictivo ya que, si bien se han creado muchas localidades nuevas en todo el territorio nacional, su forma de conseguirlo, el duro enfrentamiento generado entre vecinos y familiares, las disputas políticas y su tramitación en dos etapas, lo hacen completamente diferente al resto. Un capítulo que se desarrolló en plena transición a la democracia, por lo que en El Ejido el periodo de transición se produjo en un doble sentido, político y administrativo, al estar conformándose por entonces, su expediente de segregación de Dalías, municipio matriz

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The origin of El Ejido happens to be a very unique case and the only one in Almeria province in which we can see a locality split up into two different municipalities. The process through which El Ejido got its municipality, and although during that period new localities throughout the national territory were created, was unusual as well as conflictive due to the way it occurred, the hard confrontation between families and neighbors that the process itself provoked and the frequent political disputes. The final political transformation that within two specific stages finally emerged from all the circumstances above made at the same time this case completely different to other ones. Moreover, this chapter of El Ejido history took place in the middle of the Spanish political transition to democracy and therefore in El Ejido the mentioned changes had a double meaning in terms of political and administrative consequences, since those years the segregation process from the original municipality, Dalias, was also taking place.