Overview
- The 'yes' won with 88% support on roughly 50% turnout, with 88 residents casting ballots during the four-hour local consultation.
- The change must obtain a favorable report from the Catalan government and then pass through Spain's Congress via an organic law, a path estimated at about 18 months.
- Gósol is the only municipality in the Berguedà comarca still administered from Lleida despite residents’ daily ties pointing toward Berga and the Bages.
- Mayor Rafel López advocated the shift to align services and funding with Berguedà programs and to resolve what he calls persistent administrative obstacles.
- Residents expressed both practical backing—highlighting shorter trips to Berga for services—and emotional attachment to Lleida, with a 1995 case in Gátova cited as precedent for such transfers.