It is a belief that is often repeated in every pre-election context: Vega Baja is a key district, especially in the Provincial Council, to tilt the balance of power to one side or the other, but without overlooking the Cortes. and therefore, the Generalitat Palace. A year after the double-appointment of the polls in 2023, political forces are putting strategies on track to try to seduce voters, also in a region where all forecasts point to the rise of the far-right concussion. results this time. It cannot be overlooked that this border is precisely in its historic capital, Orihuela, where the next election scenario is less defined at this point.
He added complexity with a maneuver recorded at the local board a little over a month ago that took the control stick from the PP and put it on a plate to the PSOE, where Cs was the key. Unlike in the vast majority of large municipalities in the state, neither the socialists nor the public have yet activated the mechanism for the renewal of leadership in an organic key, an important step in identifying subsequent candidates. All this at a time when Inés Arrimadas didn’t know whether the party they belonged to would kick them out for promoting a change of government without their consent. Meanwhile, Vox homeowners are rubbing their hands on the progress predicted by all the polls and their likely ability to condition governments and, this time, access the provincial institution.
The Orihuela socialist group is the only group in the Valencian Community that does not convene its assembly to elect the local secretary. Ferraz explicitly allowed this exception, as the timetable of the process coincided with the deliberation of the no-confidence motion that brought Carolina Gracia to the Mayor’s office. The civil war to control the Party was not intended to taint the operation to win the Government, because it was already obvious and obvious that, after all, there would be an opponent of Gracia, Antonio Zapata. In short, the last local battle of xism against Alexandria after Ximo Puig lost control of the province. Now, the municipal executive has contacted the party’s highest federal body to proceed with the postponed assembly. They expect it to become active in a few weeks.
The councilor and, for the time being, the local secretary of the Socialists, assures him that he will participate, but has not clarified the question of whether he will choose the PSOE’s candidacy for a third time in the municipal elections. Gracia assures him that he is currently focused on the City Council’s management, although some voices from his closest circle acknowledge that the scenario in which he eventually gave up on running as an election candidate is also being considered. It is estimated that Zapata will go one step further in the organic process and will receive the support of the provincial structure commanded by Alejandro Soler.
Orihuela PP doesn’t have a more secure short-term future either. The district administrator, on the direct orders of district leader Carlos Mazón, decided to delay the party-controlling ruler in Orihuela until after the summer, thus exceeding the six-month deadline in which a coup was declared in December. Remove Dámaso Aparicio from the presidency, a close enemy of then-mayor Emilio Bascuñana. In certain circles of the party, it is openly accepted that the Mazón leadership is looking for a candidate for the election because they operate with the possibility that neither one nor the other will lead the list.
Next week, the opening of the new municipal center will be after Mazón had to close the last two due to lack of funds to pay the rent and is trying to personally monetize the project. In fact, it is he who appears in the ad to announce the opening, which was framed at a meeting with the militants.
war drums
They hope that various people in the regional PP, controlled by Mazón and related to former mayor Mónica Lorente, who was one of his historical allies, are integrated and, with applause, results in the election of a new local president. But whether this will happen is so unclear that the ruler did not silence the sound of the war drums. Aparicio makes no secret of his intention to run and assures his followers that his ultimate goal is to run for mayor of Orihuela; as long as his party allowed, because when Genoa tried to challenge Bascuñana’s position in the last election with the approval of the local government, it forced him to back down.
The weakness experienced by one of PP’s strongest groups in the entire Community does not go unnoticed at Vox, who knocks on the door of the disillusioned as the problems are formalized by the imposition of the manager. Encourage them to switch sides. But they point out that in some sectors of Orihuela, it will be retired Lieutenant General Manuel Mestre, now acting Congressman, to lead the candidacy for municipal elections.
Abascalians are enjoying the euphoria of the polls, considering that the formation is positioned as the second most voted power in the capital, Vega Baja, given when the polls were last taken out in the 2019 general election. party in a dozen municipalities of the region. And while it is clear that the direction of voting changes depending on the call, that is, voting nationally is not the same as municipal, few doubt that it will improve the outcome of the two councilors harvested in the previous election. Confirmation of the transfer and preservation of agriculture is one of the axes on which increasingly frequent public actions revolve. PP and PSOE are trying to counter this message.
PP makes a move in Villena and delays Alcoy’s appointment
The PP continues to uncover some unknowns regarding the appointment of party chairs in some of the larger municipalities of the province. The last was Villena, where Pepe Hernández would lead the party for the next four years. One of the issues that still needs to be resolved is the assignment at Alcoy. As in the case of Orihuela, everything indicates that the decision will be left until after the summer, because the profile to look at for 2023 is not clear.
Source: Informacion
