Conference of Governors of National Territories (Argentina)
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The Conference of the Governors of National Territories of the Argentine Republic is the space for deliberation and institutional agreement of officials in charge of governing national territories.
Introduction
In 1913, following an initiative of the General Directorate of National Territories, the First Conference of Governors of National Territories was held, with the aim of deliberating on the problems of these spaces and reaching a consensus on the proposal to reform the law on territories prepared by the Ministry of the Interior of the Argentine Nation.
Until the Centenary of the May Revolution, national territories were created as political-administrative entities dependent on the central power, with little or no participation in decision-making that directly affected their interests. The right of representation had been repeatedly denied to them and the governors were considered mere executors of the current regulations, with little room for autonomy to propose individual initiatives or to dissent from any measure taken.
Certainly, according to Law No. 1532 of 1884, in order to establish a legislature, the territories had to have thirty thousand inhabitants and to be provincialized, sixty thousand. This quantitative provision of the law was never fulfilled during the long period of territorial organization.
Thus, the inhabitants of the national territories had all the obligations of citizens of the nation but their political rights were restricted. They could not participate in national elections and only exercised the right to vote in localities with more than a thousand inhabitants, where they elected a Municipal Council of five members and a justice of the peace.
Under the presidency of José Figueroa Alcorta, the government began to think of the territories in a more comprehensive way, with proposals that were much more articulated and adapted to reality, among which the Plan for the Promotion of National Territories, authored by the Minister of Agriculture and Public Works Ezequiel Ramos Mexía, stood out.
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