Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these levels of Spanish administration from the closest to the citizen to the most remote.
- The Administración General del Estado
- The municipality
- The province
- The autonomous community
Hints
- Start with the body that collects the waste.
- The province sits between the municipality and the community.
Show the answer
- The municipality
- The province
- The autonomous community
- The Administración General del Estado
Why
The ordering is by proximity rather than by power, and the two do not track each other: the level closest to residents has the least fiscal capacity and takes on services outside its competences precisely because it is the one people turn to.
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