Barcelona City Council
Merche San Segundo has extensive experience in the publishing and cultural sectors, currently serving as Manager for Cultural Issues and Manager for Cross-Cultural Issues at Barcelona City Council since April 2017. Prior to this role, San Segundo worked at RBA from March 2014 to April 2017 as a Rights Manager, overseeing acquisitions and negotiations for Practical and Academical Non-Fiction and Catalan imprints. A background in freelance publishing includes roles as a translator, copywriter, and layout designer, as well as previous positions at RBA as a Publishing Assistant and Grupo Planeta as a Foreign Rights Sales Assistant. Educational qualifications include a Bachelor of Laws from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, a Postgraduate degree in Catalan Linguistics from Universitat de Barcelona, and various courses in Digital Publishing and Linguistic Diversity.
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Barcelona City Council
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Barcelona is governed by a city council formed by 41 city councillors, elected for a four-year term by universal suffrage. As one of the two biggest cities in Spain, Barcelona is subject to a special law articulated through the Carta Municipal (Municipal Law). A first version of this law was passed in 1960 and amended later, but the current version was approved in March 2006. According to this law, Barcelona's city council is organized in two levels: a political one, with elected city councillors, and one executive, which administrates the programs and executes the decisions taken on the political level. This law also gives the local government a special relationship with the Spanish government and it also gives the mayor wider prerogatives by the means of municipal executive commissions. It expands the powers of the city council in areas like telecommunications, city traffic, road safety and public safety. It also gives a special economic regime to the city's treasury and it gives the council a veto in matters that will be decided by the central government, but that will need a favourable report from the council.