first mayor was Miguel de Irazusta, an alkizarra architect based in Madrid. The municipal ordinances established that the successive mayors had to reside in the town, in such a way that Jerónimo Alkizalete succeeded Irazusta. Until the mid-nineteenth century, mayors were elected in the first days of the calendar year and to be candidates they had to be noblemen and first-class farmhouse owners. They were chosen for one year, although there are some exceptions, for example, Gregorio Arantzabe was chosen for 1808 and 1809. In 1845, after the First Carlist War, the electoral system changed and, among other things, the mandate of the mayors was prolonged. In 1931, in the municipal elections that led to the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, Krispin Sorarrain was elected mayor until 1934. José Tolosa followed. On August 27, 1936, after the Spanish Civil War broke out, the Junta de Burgos, authority faithful to the coup plotters, proceeded to dismiss José Tolosa and the other councilors: Krispin Sorarrain, José Luis Iruretagoiena and Simón Ugalde, and to appoint as mayor, Matías Aranburu. At the end of the Franco regime, in the first municipal elections (1979), Bittor Sorarrain Lasa, nephew of Krispin, was elected mayor standing in the independent list Alkizako Herriaren Alde. Antonio Zubiaurre Otegi was mayor of Alkiza from 1983 until his death in 2004, on behalf of Euskadiko Ezkerra first and of the independent list Alkizako Abertzale Ezkertiarrak (Alkiza's National Left) since 1995. In 2004 Jon Roteta took possession of the mayor's office and remained in office until 2011. In the 2011 and 2015 elections, Jon Umérez Urrezola was elected mayor and Inaki Irazabalbeitia Fernández in the 2019 elections. Since 1995, all the municipal elected officials in Alkiza have been elected in the list of Alkizako Abertzale Ezkertiarrak. In the elections to the General Assembly of Gipuzkoa, the Basque Parliament, the Cortes and the European Parliament, the vote for Basque national lists easily exceeds 80% of the votes cast. Education Shortly after being declared town, Alquiza's city council decided to take care of the education of its inhabitants. In 1749, in the agreement with the first resident notary of the town, Francisco Ignacio Larrunbide, it is mentioned that said notary had to teach reading and writing as well. This was so until 1797 when the city council appointed the first teacher who was not a notary: Juan Antonio Irazusta. The agreement that he