Bilbao City Council

Its headquarter, the Bilbao City Hall, is located in the Ernesto Erkoreka Plaza.The city council is made up of an executive body and a normative municipal plenary.The electoral census is made up of all registered residents in Bilbao over the age of 18 as well as nationals of Spain and other member states of the European Union.[5] These are the mayors who have governed the city council since 1979:[6] The mayor who has held office for the longest time since democracy has been Iñaki Azkuna (14 years) of the Basque Nationalist Party, a position he held from the 1999 elections until his death in 2014, reelected in 2003, 2007 and 2011.The councillors form political groups, which are distributed according to their aligned ideologies in the 2019 municipal elections: The annual reports by Transparency International pointed out in 2008, 2009, and 2010, that the City Council was the most "transparent" in Spain in terms of institutional communication, citizen relations, services, public works, and the economy.