PSOE seeks to strengthen in Sant Joan d’Alacant City Council. The Socialists made the decision after a July meeting of their rulers, a day after it was learned that the People’s Party and Ciudadanos were discussing a joint list to present a joint list in next year’s local elections, and the current dual party was found to be faltering. Stay on the government team they formed with the Liberals yesterday afternoon. From the ranks of the PSOE, they claim, in line with what President Ximo Puig said during his stay in Alicante, that it was the current mayor, Santiago Román, who had many options at the top of the popular list, who broke the government deal. and is therefore the first mayor to submit his resignation or return the Mayor’s Office to them.
In a statement, the socialists accused the PP of trying to take advantage of the work of the C’s over the past eight years and bad election prospects, which they did not hesitate to stigmatize as a decaying party. “The Socialist councilors will not resign, the Socialist Party will not disrupt or abandon the government it legitimately won at the ballot box. If the C’s, in this case Marcos Piña, José Luis Olcina, Santiago Román and Julia Parra, want to break the deal, they should step down from their posts and try to form a new majority with the extreme right of PP and Vox,” the statement read. “If they want to return home in , let them do so without betraying the will of their neighbors and risking the stability of the City Council. The socialist government team will continue to work for and for citizens with political responsibility, as they always do.”
In line with the position expressed by the socialists, the PPs and Cs continue to move forward in their negotiation to prepare the list they will submit in the elections in the municipality of l’Alacantí. The move in Sant Joan was very well received at the heights of popularity. Proof of this were the statements made yesterday by regional president Carlos Mazón, who celebrated the “homecoming” of politicians in other formations, with clear reference to Román, who was already part of the PP before he passed Cs. , the same scenario repeated with popular candidate Pachi Pascual in San Vicente del Raspeig.
Mayor Román of CS chose to remain silent yesterday. The person handling the situation was Ximo Puig. As Miguel Vilapana reports, the head of Consell, referring to the crisis unfolding in the Sant Joan City Council, pointed to the need to fulfill the agreements and accused the PP of following the same pattern more than two decades ago.
PSOE state secretary Alejandro Soler said he hoped the government deal would be maintained until the end of his term and said Román “kept his word”. Likewise, he denounced the “bad arts” of his Mazón PP. “Looks like he doesn’t have a bench and needs to go to C’s to make up for the nominations. They will have to focus on their training and if they don’t have skilled militants they will seek them out without resorting to C’s,” he said.