Nervous and exhausted by the pile of protests to face the latest election campaign controversy in AlicanteFinal stretch towards 28M marked by rain. In fact, the candidates have arrived. INFORMATION under umbrellas and looking at the sky. especially EU-Unidas Podemos representatives and Vox, whose leaders were in Alicante in the afternoon: Yolanda Díaz and Santiago Abascal in Las Cigarreras, in front of the town hall.
Despite the passing of days and the attacks to get the votes of the most undecided, the candidates showed sincerity among themselves as well as their teams. One of the most repeated questions in previous groups was: «What are you thinking?», referring to 28M expectations. And while each one was sweeping the house, it was a coincidence that the game was more open than expected, more due to mistakes than successes. “Are we all here?” a voice was heard. “Minus one…”, It was answered from the other side of the waiting room before entering the set.
And Luis Barcala, the PP’s mayor and re-election candidate, was the protagonist, although he wasn’t in the discussion when he declined the invitation. His place on the table was left empty, and his microphone was not placed. Despite everything, her image appeared on the screen because the Compromise candidate Rafa Mas showed a painting with a photo of the “absent mayor”. It was one of the most repeated criticisms of the debate, especially from leftist forces. citizens He also started some puja.
The orange candidate was less active when talking about pacts, the most active there were those who applied for pacts. EU-United We Can and again that of Compromís. vox For his part, he admitted that he could only deal with PP. This Socialist Ana Barcelona He chose not to look left or right, avoiding possible alliances despite the gloves thrown at him by his former trio partners. He chose to take advantage of that time to value the management of the Generalitat president and his re-election candidate, Ximo Puig. your opponent, Carlos Mazon no one spoke. Barcala was not there to defend his bid.