We don’t know how many of them will be “pagan” by Pedro Sánchez’s sudden and inexplicable change of heart on the Sahara, but we do know that the state of Alicante will sadly occupy a prominent position on this list of victims. Yesterday, the province’s businessmen, the first to be affected by the impact of the breakout with Algeria, an offended side that at the time favored only Morocco (to explain how it supported Spain), ciphered the “stick”. 135 million exports are flying in the air. Other leading companies in the province (so far) with direct interests in the friendly country, as in the case of Balearia, found quite abruptly with the real impact of the rupture, with the funds in their Algerian accounts frozen. But without a small price to pay for our city, there is much more to the economic impact. Alicante’s relationship with Algeria goes back a long way and has made it possible to forge deep economic and human ties. The suspension of the friendship agreement that united the two countries for 20 years, and the resulting trade freeze, is meant to break an intimacy that for Alicante was more than a simple metaphor.: When the bird is flying, Oran and even Algeria are closer to Alicante than Madrid. The businessmen who gathered at the IX Tourism Conference in Benidorm yesterday did not talk about anything else. Even the happiness of confirming that the tourism industry is recovering from the crisis faster than expected and that a perfect summer is expected after two years of survivability has not alleviated concerns about the consequences of this new stone that the Sánchez Government has placed on it. we are on the way It is true that in this case we are talking about an indirect effect, not like the cacicada of transfer. But the result is the same: we are repeatedly harmed by government decisions and only suffer the most negative consequences from those decisions.. What the Pedro Sánchez Government has done for this state is a lot to be credited and little to be credited. And time is running out.
And one more thing:
The Alicante City Council did not laugh at a judge’s request to explain what safeguards were taken to avoid damaging the Luceros fountain while the mascletás were being made. Not the Judge Generalitat, he tried the same thing but there the mayor took it almost as a joke.. For practical purposes, Barcala does not want what happened with the renaming of streets associated with the previous regime to happen to maskletás, who was then the spokesperson of the People’s Group, precisely at the request of Barcala himself for a judicial appeal. The opposition was cautiously paralyzed. So today the maskletás in Luceros are frozen until the judge approves. Until the very last moment, the emotion, I hope, does not result in monumental outrage.
Here are our highlights:
- The conflict with Algeria leaves 135 million in the air in Alicante’s exports.
- The City Council will not initiate mascletás in Luceros until it receives judicial approval.