The facilities of the renewed INFORMACIÓN Club opened this week in celebration of the second Municipal Forum organized by INFORMATION, which brought together the different mayors of the province of Alicante. In this meeting, the problems and plans of different municipalities of the province were revealed. The sessions were split into two days: Tuesday, November 29 and Wednesday, November 30, and Generalitat President Ximo Puig; Rebeca Torró, Minister of Public Works and Mobility, and Carlos Mazón, Speaker of the State Assembly.
The opening act of this local proposal was held last Tuesday and was attended by mayors and councilors, provincial deputies, representatives of public institutions and heads of the productive and social fabric and media. All contributed to their vision of municipalism and the importance of local government and information management for citizens. “Knowledge Club is once again at the service of the Alicante community for the exchange of ideas,” said Toni Cabot, director of the forum’s presentation.
Benidorm’s first councilors, Toni Pérez; Rubén Alfaro from Elda; and Eduardo Dolón from Torrevieja. Videos of the municipalities of San Vicente del Raspeig, Calp and Crevillent were also projected. Likewise, Julián López Milla, head of the Alicante Port Authority; Antonio Rodes, managing director of the Valencia Community Thematic Projects Association; José Antonio García Galdón, PreZero regional manager; Anaïs Menguzzato, managing director of Ferrocarrils, from Generalitat Valenciana, and Ángel Luna, Ombudsman of the Community of Valencia.
Tomás Mayoral, director of INFORMATION, took the stage and said, “We believe these conferences are a great opportunity to reflect and discuss with the municipalities and the municipalities where we live.” In addition, the Mayor stated that these conferences are a double satisfaction for INFORMATION “to celebrate the 2022 Municipal Forum and to be able to do it in our home, which is the home of its readers when it comes to a newspaper”. It was Carlos Mazón’s turn, who started the conference with his speech. The head of the State Assembly insisted on a necessary second decentralization of state and regional powers and stressed the importance of the +Cerca Plan, which has a historic value of 40 million euros for the municipalities of the province of Alicante.
A roundtable meeting was held simultaneously on the set of Informacióntv, which focused on climate change and agriculture municipalities, apart from the interventions in the morning. María Gómez García, mayor of Almoradi; José Vicente Fernández Costa, mayor of Daya Vieja; Alejandro Morant Climent of Busot; Sebastián Cañadas from Mutxamel; Alejandro García Ferrer of Monóvar; de Cox, Antonio Bernabéu, and Teresa María Belmonte Sánchez, mayor of Bigastro. The first legislators advocated the transition to renewable energies against climate change, but demanded that photovoltaic installations be regulated to prevent them from occupying fertile farmland.
To close the morning, Ombudsman Ángel Luna was tasked with closing the first day, marked by a demand for more funds to combat local underfunding. Luna advocated transparency in city councils and discussed the situation in many municipalities.
The second day
Generalitat President Ximo Puig opened the second session last Wednesday and focused on two pillars: municipalism and investment. In his speech, Puig highlighted a municipalist Generalitat that “makes corporate respect the foundation of an alliance to improve the lives of citizens.”
During the morning, Javier Pérez Ripalda, director of Cívica Homes; Javier Gutiérrez, Deputy Provincial Council for Infrastructure and Municipal Aid; Carolina Gracia, mayor of the Orihuela City Council; Estela Saquete, principal investigator of the CENID “Dis-Mis Information” project; Síndic de Comptes of Sindicatura de Comptes, Antonio Mira-Perceval; and Toni Frances, mayors of Alcoy; Elche, Carlos González and Luis Barcala from Alicante.
During the day, two roundtable meetings were held simultaneously on the issues of crisis, industrial municipalities, tourism municipalities and sustainability. Pinoso deputy mayor Silvia Verdú and mayors of San Vicente and Crevillent Jesús Villar and José Manuel Penalva discussed at the first roundtable. The first councilors of Pinoso, Crevillent and San Vicente emphasized their commitment to diversify and expand properties by adapting the proposal to the demands of businessmen.
The situation and development of the tourism sector were discussed at the second table attended by the Mayor of El Campello, Juan José Berenguer, and the Mayor of L’Alfàs del Pi, Vicente Arques. an out-of-season bet by both municipalities.
On the other hand, videos of the municipalities of Almoradí, l’Alfàs del Pi and El Campello were also projected.
The latest response to this Municipal Forum 2022 corresponded to Rebeca Torró, Minister of Public Works and Mobility of Valenciana, who explained that initiatives such as this Municipal Forum allow us to learn and reflect on the measures, ideas and suggestions that are being taken. conducted in different municipalities and “deserving our most sincere appreciation”.
In short, it is a forum where the role of city councils as the closest and first responding administrations to the citizens is evaluated.
Source: Informacion
Emma Matthew is a political analyst for “Social Bites”. With a keen understanding of the inner workings of government and a passion for politics, she provides insightful and informative coverage of the latest political developments.