The mold is discarded. The election campaign for the municipalities of Alicante, one of the most memorable municipalities of the city, has come to an end. The six main parties held their final campaign ceremonies this Friday, with the majority – except for the Cs – disguised for fear of rain to end a low-profile journey towards 28M, marked by street protests and not just mass events.
On Sunday, May 28, 242,735 Alicante voters (compared to 239,849 four years ago) were called to the polls at 422 ballot boxes spread over 104 constituencies to design the next General Assembly of the Alicante City Council. The People’s Party (nine, after 39,477 votes), PSOE (nine, with 37,174 votes), Ciudadanos (five, with 22,254 votes), United We Can (two, with 12,224 votes), Compromís (two, with 9,042 votes), and Vox (two, with 9,042 votes) , by 8,578 votes).
After the election campaign everything shows that The PP will be the party with the most votes – as it has been in Alicante since 1995, which coincided with Luis Díaz Alperi’s first term. and that the PSOE will be reaffirmed in the second position. Winning elections is not always synonymous with power, as bipartisanship has been replaced by multi-partyism in town halls and regional parliaments. This is what happened to Asunción Sánchez Zaplana in 2015, when he headed the candidacy with the most votes, but the left bloc added fifteen councilors who now form the absolute majority in Alicante.
The real question is Citizens will be able to resist in Alicanteis one of the main electoral niches nationwide, despite the segregation the party has experienced at the national level. Its continuity may be key in the formation of the next municipal government.
Luis Barcala, mayor and PP re-election candidate, closed the campaign this Friday by holding a big demonstration in the halls of Juan XXIII, a regular enclave for those popular in the election campaign. He was with Generalitat candidate Carlos Mazón. In the morning Barcala accompanied Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the national president of his party., at a meeting with representatives of the hospitality industry at a well-known restaurant in the city. There, after this short action, INFORMACIÓN tried to balance the mayor’s campaign and tried to reaffirm the PP’s position, but without success. From the communications booth, they stated that the public would not make any statements.
Except for this Friday action, The popular ones held two big rallies: the one for the presentation of Barcala’s candidacy.held as a central campaign rally at the tram depots on the first Sunday of the campaign and at Plaza Manila last Saturday. In them, Barcala bragged about the administration and asked for helpful votes to try to unite all the center-right votes in the PP. He even sought the support of disenchanted socialists.
Yes, PSOE mayoral candidate appreciated the campaign Ana Barceló, who gathered the media this Friday at the election headquarters in Alicante to assess the situation. Explaining his strategy, Barceló said: “The main motif of the campaign has been proximity to the residents of Alicante, and it will be the hallmark of the municipal government because I do not understand public service any other way.” Choice: «We toured Alicante from neighborhood to neighborhood to reveal our project in face-to-face conversation with all the neighbors. The city has all the potential to position itself as a real benchmark. at the national and international level”.
In his brief intervention a few hours after the closing ceremony of the campaign, Barceló criticized the mayor for his silence for the past two weeks. “It is publicly and notoriously known that Barcala refused to make a statement throughout the campaign, probably because it was very difficult for him to defend his administration without running his 122m euros mandate due to mere incompetence. was able to manage public funds”.
socialists, At the close of the ADDA AuditoriumIt also included the presentation of Ana Barceló’s candidacy in port and a visit by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, although both appointments took place before the campaign began.
They emphasized that contact with the public was “well received” during this campaign from Ciudadanos, the third party with the highest representation power in the General Assembly of Alicante City Council during this period. «We were very pleased, the tents and events were very well received. Ciudadanos arouses a lot of sympathy, people value the new candidacy with professional people coming from the government and civil society to bring their talents into the future government,” Mayor Adrián Santos Pérez said this Friday. because “a lot of work is planned,” he added, to transform Alicante and bring the city back to the place it deserves. Ciudadanos closed the campaign in a street protest in San Gabriel, the neighborhood where the mayor resides and gave birth.. The most crowded show in recent days was at IES Cavanilles with the announcement of the list. He also had the support of Congress deputy spokesman Edmundo Bal, who visited Alicante this week.
At United for Alicante, they reviewed the campaign in the morning at Plaza de Ayuntamiento. “Number two” of the list, “Xavi López,”the campaign was flagged by a missing mayorHe returned to the City Council, where there was corruption hiding from the debate, not showing its face, and always tied to the PP ». Regarding the announced proposals, they advocated the green ring from the coalition, which should cover the city as an economic axis and strengthen culture and heritage in Alicante. Manolo Copé, head of the coalition list, evaluated the visits of the ministers. Ione Belarra and Yolanda Diazin turn vice-president of the Government of Spain.
Also, Compromís from Plaza del Ayuntamiento provided the campaign balance. Mayor Rafa Mas defended the work of the coalition: «We showed our faces, in front of a disappearing PP mayorIn hiding because he didn’t want to show his face because of his terrible rule these four years ». On the final day of the campaign, Mas highlighted the city model Compromís is looking for, the “15-minute city that seeks to promote public services and connect neighborhoods.” Valencians held their main campaign event on the Esplanade last week, with Generalitat candidate Joan Baldoví and Alicante top of the list Aitana Mas.
Finally, Vox mayor Carmen Robledillo pointed out that the education campaign went as planned: “Exhausting but very exciting”. “The fact that we ran a campaign in which we combined information desks in the neighborhoods (more than 45 tables in 15 days) with meetings and neighborhood visits gives the people of Alicante the opportunity to discuss the program and listen directly to their needs. He closed his campaign with an action in a bar, and this Wednesday it was the speech of its national leader, Santiago Abascal. is a candidate of a formation that lives its big day with its visit.
After 17 days of campaign, it’s time to think. And 28M, it’s time to vote.