ONCE, or the State Lotteries, wasted the opportunity to set up a system of betting on their results. municipal and district elections Sunday, May 28. Likewise, citizens would join those pools with a greater enthusiasm than was detected today to go to the polls after a two-week vacation. disqualification and bullshit communicative results are in the air almost everywhere, except in election strongholds, where mayors are only obsolete when they die. Read Vigo; or Chercos (Almeria), where the mayor, an elderly former Civil Guard officer, hopes to be re-elected and turn a hundred in the next legislature. Or Patones (Madrid), where the mayoral candidate for a women’s coalition debuted with 93.
Everything is so arranged that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of mayor’s offices. It will be decided by a single councillor. There are 8,113 municipalities in Spain. And for just one regional MP, the governments of Aragon, La Rioja, Castilla La Mancha and the Valencian Community can fall to one side or the other. Russian roulette type selections. It will also affect whether Podemos manages to enter the Community of Madrid (if not the absolute majority of the PP) and Valencia. If he fails, Ximo Puig’s presidency is in jeopardy.
There are nominations grouped around Spain Vacant, presented in eleven provinces, as if there were few to compete; in some they may become the key to future government, especially in Aragon, due to the roots and experience of Teruel Existe. And widely, the remains of the Ciudadanos shipwreck are found in important towns in the Madrid metropolitan area, such as Majadahonda, Alcorcón, and Móstoles, grouped in up to fourteen “With You” nominations. provinces; or they go to the autonomous ones “Units” in Valencia, there is some implantation here. At a Congress in 2017, they smelled Albert Rivera changing lanes and heading towards the PP, and that’s what the centrist leader himself said in 2019. “Sorpasso” to Pablo Casado. They both ended in another life.
All the candidates for councilors in Spain, more than a hundred thousand, make up that legion that Paco Reyes, president of the Jaén County Council, rightly calls “political volunteerism.” They are people who have an understanding of service to the public and society. A treasure to be protected. Another thing is their real possibilities. “There is no salvation outside of faith,” said Roberto Dorado years ago when he learned of a socialist split in Valencia. For him faith was in his powers bipartisanship When the so-called “new politics” came, only a few of which remained after ten years, he was very resentful.
Eighty-three-year-old Alfonso Guerra, still sane and active at multiple public events a week, asked a group of professionals at El Escorial on Friday: “With your hand on your heart, tell me if, after seeing what happened at the Congress of Deputies, you would prefer the stability provided by partisanship. they don’t.” The audience seemed to agree because something govern by dealing with minorities, it was said there, and another is to forget the majorities. “I was voting for you as Mr. Guerra and currently head of Government with what I hate about you,” an entertainment businesswoman told him. They did not carry it on their shoulders as it was not a custom in these meetings.