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This paper aims at specifying the legal system rationale for the Basque Country¿s local government, the terms of its insertion within the Constitutional and legal framework at the National level ¿with a broad interpretation, including, therefore, both, the European Charter of Local Self- Government, and the European Primary Law-, and the resulting role this legal system has to play in the special territorial organization of Euskadi. Following that, the paper tries to identify the full development of the principle of local self-government as the main objective of the Basque legislator, indicating its consequences within the local government statute defined by it. On this basis, the paper analyzes the local self-government conception of the principle previously indicated, and concludes outlining new preventive mechanisms that are placed in the service of the referred self-government effectiveness.