Alicante’s social shield, the need to support basic services for citizens, the transformation of the city and different visions of the model and municipal taxes to be introduced in the next mandate were the main themes of the period. election controversy of the capital of the province At a meeting organized by INFORMACIÓN and Información TV, where issues such as housing, sanitation, trade or inequalities in neighborhoods were also discussed.
The discussion was attended by Ana Barceló (PSPV-PSOE), Adrián Santos Pérez (Citizens), Manolo Copé (United for Alicante), Rafa Mas (Compromís) and Carmen Robledillo (Vox), i.e. mayors of all parties. Except for the People’s Party representation on the Alicante City Council, to which re-election candidate Luis Barcala declined the invitation. This fact was the first rope opened by the left parties. We didn’t have to wait long for that, as the first minute Barceló, Copé and Mas used was used to attack Barcala’s administration, which they accused of impeachment. lack of courage to argue and wanting to cover up the lack of bids for the city and the indictment of exile Manuel Jiménez and councilor José Ramón González. Unaware of this war, the Cs were presented as a “sensible” option to rule by avoiding extremism, and Vox defended his ideology in a speech in which he warned of the lack of security in the city and made references to national issues. Like the presence of exetarras in Bildu lists or the law of “only yes is yes”.
“Once again Barcala puts us in the middle of a democratic debate. It is disrespectful to candidates. He began his tenure with an asylum and possibly ended with corruption, “Mas summed up Barcala’s route to de-ice.” democratic anomaly PP does not participate in the discussion. We are left with the question of whether it came from a lack of a project for the city, from cases of corruption, or from his contempt for the people of Alicante,” added Barceló. “When all the people do not show their faces, the democratic quality is lost. The pool behind the Teatro Principal is a clear sign of disastrous management,” Copé concluded on his first lap.
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Cs, who has been a partner of PP in recent years, and the person who may be a partner, next termDepending on the results of the polls, Vox stepped away from criticizing Barcala for his absence. “After four years in power in very important areas, we show ourselves in the elections,” Pérez said. said. “We are tired of decades of promises that politicians march from Alicante only a few weeks before the elections,” said Robledillo.
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After the presentations, the city model proposed by the parties in the first block was started. Copé was the first to ask the question. He did this to denounce “the paralysis, the lack of management, and the inequality between neighbourhoods”. But he was the next speech, and he made it to do so. rows on the left. “I want to form a good government with Ana and Manolo” as suggested in Compromís’ approach to PSPV and United for Alicante. “We have to increase the budgets to move forward,” added the Valencian candidate, who was the most direct confrontation with the Vox representative.
The question of the differences between some districts and others was taken up by Pérez. “We want the neighborhoods to be equal, they all have the same equipment,” said the Liberals’ mayor of the city model, which is an Alicante that also wants it to face the sea, strengthen its coastline, attract companies and strengthen its industry. regions Robledillo emphasized rural areas and neighborhoods and added how he wanted it to be in relation to the city model «clean, tourist, free and with fewer convictions for sexual offenses.”
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Barceló insisted that he wanted “a city that leads the state and positions itself nationally and internationally” in his model, as he claimed before the campaign began, and that “employment and housing” are the two pillars that support your project. Compromís claimed what is known as the “fifteen-minute city model” to close this section, United for Alicante chose a city. “feminist and polite”Cs expressed that Central Park should be the next task as Alicante’s big lung, and Vox reassured that climate change is not a problem for citizens.
The begging decree also flew over the debate and was replaced by the two main topics of discussion after the confrontation of positions on Alicante’s transformation, social shield and taxes. “The economic model that benefits the privileged few must face off against an economic model for the social majority and just and progressive taxation,” Copé said. Barceló, who also had the opportunity to spread his speech in this sense, regional candidateXimo Puig endorsed measures such as wide acceptance of families with two children or that the elderly have access to banking institutions.
Robledillo advocated “tax cuts for the middle and working class who couldn’t make it to the end of the month due to inflation” and “end ideological ploys to allocate money to real problems”. This part of the debate was the only one in which Compromís distanced himself from PSPV, claiming that the same rhetoric should be maintained in Alicante as in Madrid. state budgets. Pérez revealed Cs’ commitment to family reconciliation, with educational measures such as “morning, after school, and free meals” and the defense of the middle class, because “it is he who always pays and has nothing”. help”.
Questions about the pacts were played out a lot after Sunday. “We have overcome bipartisanship,” Copé declared. “We want a government made up of Ana and Manolo,” Mas insisted. Barceló, Vox’s regional candidate convicted of sexist violenceAnother nod to Puig, who acts as a warning about possible PP-Vox handshake on a local switch. Pérez ran C’s to lead a city council with “reasonable policies”, and Robledillo once again spoke of terrorists and rapists to mark the red lines of the far right.
HE golden minuteAiming to ask for a direct vote, it was used by Pérez to highlight the “professional people” who made up his list. Robledillo once again appealed to the “distrust” of families. But he called for “a good government that leaves no one behind and lays claim to Madrid and Valencia”. Barceló was accused of “indifference and lethargy of the PP”. And Copé called for “a sustainable, friendly and supportive Alicante”.