12. PROVINCIAL INSTITUTIONS

The provincial institutions would also be formed by the three basic organisms of the Assembly, the Commission, and the Council. Still, the provincial Assembly would not be elected directly by the citizens. Still, it would be elected by the local or district Assemblies' deputies in a proportional number to the of its inhabitants. The Provincial Ombudsman, with the same functions as the local, would also be chosen by the same procedure.

Starting with the local or district elections, to be held as nowadays every four years, there would no longer be more direct votes in which citizens had to participate. Still, it would be the elected candidates themselves who would choose each other. The reasons for this procedure is simple to understand. On the one hand, since there were no political parties, there would also be no organizations large enough to promote and support candidacies. Only candidates with great financial resources or supported by those who had them would appear. On the other hand, because who can know the candidates' personal and professional qualities better than their own colleagues when the scope of the election exceeds the locality or the urban district? What elements of judgment would a citizen assess these qualities in a candidate from another locality or district? Only through electoral "propaganda", which is the one to try to avoid!

So it would be the members of the local assemblies themselves who would elect their representatives for the provincial Assembly, and these would, in turn, elect the president of their Commission, but one year after the local elections. This delay is to give members of the Assembly time to get to know each other better and assess with greater objectivity the good qualities and the candidates' political spirit.

Once the Provincial Assembly has been established, and following the same procedure as for local institutions, it would elect its president and spokesperson.