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Should libertarians and anarchists to vote and / or standing for local elections? It is an old debate that currently takes the view when the local and regional elections of May 2011 at a particularly delicate by the economic crisis unemployment and citizen disenchantment with politics. From Free Municipality declare ourselves in favor of participation in local elections, without breaking addition to the anarchist orthodoxy proclaimed by two characters away from the suspected prostatic such as Bakunin and Kropotkin.Y is that cities and states from two traditions absolutely different. While the state is an abstraction created from the power in the sixteenth century to protect and legitimize the privileges of a small part of society, the commune, the city, the borough has been since the Middle Ages, areas of direct democracy, which fought with varying degrees of success against such privileges. Libertarian communism, whose maximum theoretical reprentante is Kropotkin, advocated the establishment of free communes federated together by a covenant free. Bakunin understood that municipalities are central to the political life of the people who "have a practical, healthy common sense when it comes to communal affairs. They are very knowledgeable and know when to choose from including the most capable." It is really difficult, once entering the municipal councils, carry out policies of direct democracy and in assemblies because they clash against a law that increasingly more attentive to the spaces of autonomy and freedom that still survive in the municipalities. We have seen recently changed their rules to restrict eg the open council secular law, a community of authentic ancient institution of direct democracy. The same has happened with the Big Cities Act, passed by the PSOE and the PP, which gives a presidential character to municipalities over 250,000 inhabitants and provincial capitals, turning the local into a bad copy of the State. There will have to look for gaps to be able to libertarian municipalism both from within and from outside municipalities. What we will see in subsequent deliveries of this blog.