Cs are falling apart in Sant Joan Lands Santiago Román, the first mayor in the PP. The mayor and two other councilors of the orange formation leave liberal ranks, as a previous step Return of the first to the People’s Party. Thus the way was opened Roman, mayor of PPThe formation he agreed to last January after leaving the PSOE after three and a half years of coalition government with the Socialists.
Santiago Roman, Marcos Piña and José Luis Olcina accepted the proposal of the local leadership of the PP to consolidate efforts facing municipal elections”, as reported by three councilors in a statement on Tuesday.
Román, Piña and Olcina have requested to join the group of unaffiliated councilors of the Sant Joan d’Alacant City Council, where their partner and deputy Julia Parra is currently located.
The mayor and two councilors withdrew from C’s where they requested registration to join the non-affiliated group.
This confirms what has been an open secret for months. Román would return to PPformation left in 2015 because of his differences with the then – and now – PP spokesperson, Manual Tool. And everything indicates that Román will be the popular candidate in the elections on 28 May.
center right merge
The three components of the municipality “made this decision”. the goal of integrating into the political centre-right unification project From Sant Joan d’Alacant. a few weeks ago, Cs Sant Joan accepted the offer formulated by the local chairman of the People’s Party, Manuel Aracil, join together Until the municipal elections on 28 May. Given the impossibility of combining the given abbreviations, Citizens’ refusal to submit joint lists with the PP In the municipality of Sant Joan, three councilors decided to leave their party and support this centre-right union”.
In this way, “Santiago Román, Marcos Piña and José Luis Olcina join Julia Parra in the group of councilors who are not affiliated with the Sant Joan City Council, so that this group consists of four former representatives of Ciudadanos”.
For Román, “This decision aware of the offer Made by the PP of Sant Joan, it is a clear project of unifying the centre-right in this municipality. We believe that this is the most appropriate way to prevent it. left-wing trio PSOE-Compromís-Podemos It was installed in the City Council of Sant Joan d’Alacant with such negative results that we all know, because it will be a reflection of the Sanchismo that has dragged Spain into an unsustainable situation for several years”.
Román was part of the municipal government in PSOE, AB and Compromís from 2015-2019, when he was a candidate for the Decido party. And in 2019, he jumped to Cs, where he got the key to four councilors and the Mayor’s Office, eventually signing with PSOE, which he left last January. And now he is preparing to return from the front door as mayor of Sant Joan to the PP, where he is the city spokesperson.
Investment
Román’s arrival in the summer of 2021 already heralded his return to PP. Thanks to the deal with the PSOE after the 2019 election, the Socialists remained in the Mayor’s office for the first two years and the last two would be for the Cs. And his inauguration seemed more like the inauguration of a popular politician than that of one of the C’s, including Diputación and PPCV president Carlos Mazón, who melted in a hug.