The Municipal Vote

The PP wants the British residents to continue to have the right to vote (and stand for office) in municipal elections following Brexit, says El País here. The first municipal elections will be held right after Brexit – in May 2019.  

The article notes that those new residents (or others who have developed an interest in their municipality) would need to register their intention to vote (it's different from getting inscribed on the padrón) by the end of the year. 

Let us hope that this goes through...! There are a (small) number of foreign councillors in Spain, of which perhaps half are Brits. They can be found in the municipalities where a lot of foreigners live, and they are very useful to help their voters achieve the same rights as their Spanish neighbours. Indeed, without the British vote, far fewer foreign councillors from other European nationalities would exist either.