Historical Review
Since 1983 at the service of the City Councils
The Federation of Municipalities of the Region of Murcia (FMRM) is an association with full legal and public personality, constituted by the 45 Municipalities of the Region of Murcia, which voluntarily decided to associate since the foundation of the FMRM, in accordance with the provisions of the Spanish Constitution, and the Statute of Autonomy of the Region of Murcia.
The FMRM is linked through an adhesion protocol to the FEMP (Spanish Section of the Municipal Council of Europe), from which it assumes resolutions and agreements related to this, with other associations that maintain similar interests within the scope of its Autonomous Community.
1983
In October 1983, thirty-one mayors of our Region agreed to form the Federation of Municipalities of the Region of Murcia, for which they elected a Management Committee. Likewise, Antonio García Arias, mayor of Moratalla, who was also a member of the Federal Commission of the FEMP, was in charge of coordinating it. This Management Committee had the purpose of affiliating the municipalities of the Region that were not yet members, drafting the Statutes of the Federation, and convening the Constituent Assembly.
1984
On February 25, 1984, at an Assembly where the Statutes of the Federation were approved, the FMRM was formally constituted. Antonio Bódalo, mayor of Murcia, was elected first president, and in the first executive, all political parties were represented, and all the City Councils of our Region had been integrated, a unique case in all of Spain.
Today
In its 40 years of history, there have been 3 other mayors, and one female mayor, María Dolores Muñoz (Bullas), becoming the first female president of the organization, and the main objective remains intact, which is to work in defense of the local world, of the interests of the 45 municipalities and to claim that, being the closest administration, it needs to make its way day by day among the rest of the administrations of the State.
