The National Congress and the state legislative assemblies are responsible for establishing the legal framework on local government. The key pieces of legislation that regulate local government are the municipal laws. According to Article 6 of the Consolidated Municipal Law of Salvador of 2020, “the principles that underlie the organization of the Municipality are: the full exercise of municipal autonomy, the cooperation articulated with the other levels of government, with other municipalities, and with regional entities that the Municipality integrates or will integrate, the exercise of sovereignty and popular participation in the municipal administration and in the control of its acts, the guarantee of fair and equal access for all citizens to public goods and services that ensure the essential conditions of dignified existence, the defense and preservation of the territory, natural resources, and the environment, the preservation of the values and history of the population, based on the recognition and assimilation of ethnic, cultural, and religious plurality, peculiar to its formation, and the probity in administration.”
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