The Comandos moved to the El Altet district to tell their neighbors how they had been trying to separate themselves from Elche for a long time, to become their own municipality. To achieve this, it is sufficient to have a population of more than 5,000 (El Altet has more than 6,000 inhabitants in the registry) and a consolidated territory.
Ángel Soler, president of the Merchants’ Association and an agitator in the struggle for independence, showed the audience an indisputable document. In 1882, residents of El Altet already expressed their desire to join the Alicante Provincial Council to the Alicante capital. It’s a situation that the young man explains clearly. “Elche and Alicante have always lived back to back”.
I find it more than interesting that such national programs addressing the problems there are for the whole society to know about them. The existence of Alicante-Elche airport in the municipality of Elche, which is adjacent to the district of El Altet and which imposes a large number of taxes, has brought the issue of discrimination back to the table in recent years.
At the end of the program, Elche’s mayor, Carlos González, showed up in the El Altet district with an “ordinary” plan, as is always the case with these reports, where everything is prepared in millimeters. If we consider that they know how to put politicians, that the relevant courts have spoken and opposed, discrimination is impossible. But the neighbors plan to continue the war. “We pay taxes as if we live in the center of Elche and we have no advantage. If something happens to our children at night, there is no Health Center; We must go to the Elche Hospital, twenty minutes away». long conflict.