Elda’s candidates for the 28-M municipal elections started Elda’s electoral debate cycle. INFORMATION and TV InformationIt will take the mayors of the parties that have municipal representatives from 14 provinces in the province to the Doctor Rico Street set. Lots of suggestions, a high level of consensus, and almost no conflict. The first meeting of the mayors of Elda in the current election campaign was as follows: Ruben Alfaro for PSOE; Paco Sánchez for PP; Fran Muñoz for CS; For all Iñaki Pérez on behalf of Elda (AB, Compromís and Podemos) and Paqui Vicente on behalf of Vox.
The discussion was developed in three blocks to address the local economic situation, the urban model and government agreements.
The mayor and current mayor, Rubén Alfaro, assured that Elda was in a much more advantageous position than eight years ago when the PSOE overthrew the PP from local government. Compared to 2015, there are 14,730 people, 700 more, and unemployment decreased by 31%, 2,300 unemployed decreased and 126 new companies were established..
For Iñaki Pérez, “to the coalition government, Yolanda Diaz As the Minister of Labor who, with the inspections, carried out a labor reform for the benefit of workers, where many insecurities and the informal economy have come to an end. It is a policy to end one of the troubles of our municipality,” he said, referring to the secrecy.
“Since the PSOE reigned in Elda, the tax burden has decreased by 21.5% and no taxes have increased”
But for Fran Muñoz, the solution is not aid, but articulating tools so that people can live with decent work. Therefore, he wanted to take the construction of Ronda Norte from a drawer of Diputación, which “will have a magnificent connection of the Madrid highway with the Campo Alto industrial area and the future Las Cañadas industrial area.Elche has already done it and Elda needs to be a competitive city». Most critical of all was Paqui Vicente: “I find it audacious to say the least, that the mayor sold it as a success without succeeding in creating 700 new jobs in eight years and lowering the city’s unemployment rate to 22 percent.” According to data from Sunday, this represents the highest rate in the Community of Valencia».
Paco Sánchez has brought into the discussion Elda’s IBI, which is declining although it remains one of the highest in Spain and one of the highest in the province. «It is also a relevant fact that among 8,000 municipalities in Spain, Elda is among the ten municipalities with the highest tax burden. “Young people go to work,” he criticized, proposing the establishment of the Las Cañadas logistics park, because it’s the only area where we can offer plots. 6,000 square meters has easy access to the highway, as new production models now demand, and can mean: 5,000 jobs. But nothing has been done for eight years…” he complained. Alfaro didn’t wait for an answer: “PP should update his speech because the reality is very different. Something people believe – in response to Sánchez’s comment – and another thing is data reflecting a 21.5% reduction in tax burdens since the PSOE ruled Elda..
In fact – Alfaro stressed – we are the third city in Spain to reduce the tax rate the most, and I haven’t increased a single tax since I became mayor. Moreover, he added that in Elda, the fiscal pressure is 442 euros per capita in municipal taxes, while the state measure is 610 euros per capita. And I’m not saying, this is the data of the Ministry of Finance ».
“We ask PSOE to support PP if it turns out to be the power with the most votes, as well as vice versa”
In any case, for Iñaki Pérez, the problem with Elda’s IBI stemmed from the ‘disaster’ suffered by the City Council when it was co-managed with PP Adela Pedrosa. “However, it is not possible to create industrial land in Las Cañadas because this is an EU protected area due to vegetation and there are already decisions regarding the proposed dumping here.” about the aging of the population due to the few opportunities that young people have to find work. Green is a problem that needs to be solved through cultural employment and caring for people. He emphasized that all these will help us to keep the cultural capital of the region, which we have lost in recent years. A proposal in which Muñoz adds a proposal to halve the IBI tax for seniors whose pension does not reach the inter-professional minimum wage.
“Education of workers and workers is crucial to the productive fabric, and since I am mayor we have gone from 25 training cycles to 52 with over 2500 FP quotas and this is an economic pillar that has an impact on the youth as well,” he said. Point to Ruben Alfaro.
In the second block of the discussion, there was a general consensus that betting should continue on improving neighborhoods and facilitating access to housing.
“There are neighborhoods that have turned into dangerous ghettos, and three out of ten houses have slums.
Paqui Vicente came forward to condemn the formation of “dangerous ghettos” in the city. Caliu, Tafalera, Almafrá and Nueva Fraternidad neighborhoods. “We will take action to return the slums to their rightful owners, increase the number of police, put a police dog on the door of every school and institute to avoid smuggling, and we will also work. to get Civil Guard but Elda is moving with a special unit because so many drugs are moving,” he announced.
Rehabilitating neighborhoods and building homes is urgent for Paco Sánchez. “It’s a difficult and grueling job that has to be done over time, but nobody thinks about it. Music GardenIt’s been closed for eight years. Elda is the only city without a Culture House since it was closed about 15 years ago, and the same thing is happening at the Youth House,” said Elda, and defended the construction of a large multi-purpose building as a symbolic project. in the stadiumex Pepico Amat. It is an action that should involve all Administrations and the private hand,” he said. Regarding the traffic and mobility problem, Alfaro reminded that more than 500 parking spaces were created during his current tenure. “We will also create a new free public parking lot for 300 cars in the old warehouses of the Emerito Maestre company,” detailing the investment in public education centers and neighborhoods. “Only for the improvement of the Cocoliche-La Feria area, 2.2 million was allocated, which is the largest investment of this legislature, and we also received 11.5 million European funds for the rehabilitation of various areas of the city.”
“Population is aging and we need our youth to stay in the city”
Regarding the pacts, the final bloc of the electoral debate, Iñaki Pérez was in favor of reaching an agreement with those who respected Elda for All’s electoral program, did not criminalize poverty or oppose Human Rights.
Alfaro underlined that: Elda has now gained a reputation and progressed “because we left behind the tensions of bygone times and reached great deals. More is accomplished by talking than shouting, and that was my philosophy and will continue to do so.”Muñoz said he was in favor of negotiation, “as everything has shown can happen if the PSOE does not reach an absolute majority.”
“The solution is not help but articulating tools so people can live off their work”
Regarding agreements, Paqui Vicente said, “The magic of democracy is being able to talk to people of my many differences, but it’s also the things that unite us, such as caring for citizens. But we will not remove a comma from our politics,” he warned, and Paco Sánchez asked Alfaro to support the PP if the top-voted power emerges, as the right has done with the PSOE these four years.
“It is true that we have a very cordial relationship and we voted unanimously on many things that were good for Elda. And it’s an advantage of this city, a political legacy that we should cherish,” Sánchez stressed before concluding. The white glove controversy as his entire tenure in Elda takes place.