Orihuela’s Partido Popular stated on Wednesday that during the period in which the mayoress, Carolina Gracia, was considering a proposal for the final approval of the Cala Mosca project, which will see the construction of 2,200 homes on the last kilometre of virgin coast of the Oriolan coast, and in which she denounced the threats and pressure she was receiving from the builder, the government coalition partners led by the Deputy Mayor, Jose Aix, blockaded government work that Gracia was attempting to carry out, which had an damaging impact on municipal ordinance.
One such procedure was “the unsuccessful attempt by the Councillor for Equality” to introduce legislation for the abolition of prostitution and sexual exploitation, where the socialists were forced to withdraw the proposal.
Neither was it possible to approve the formulation of the annual accounts of Uryula Histórica, the municipal company through which the City Council manages services such as early care and childcare. On this occasion, according to the PP, the unjustified absence of councillor Antonio Sánchez, from Ciudadanos, meant this important matter was left unresolved.
The PP has stated, “so much is the situation of hostility that exists between the two parties, PSOE and C’s, that it is evident, even in the management of the council website and social networks accounts, where each one publishes it’s own news with their corresponding photographs, and where it is common practice that they are able to delete comments that they find critical.
Nor can the appalling situation regarding the lack of insurance for municipal vehicles and other uninsured municipal property, for more than three months, be excused, a procedure that was a direct responsibility of the Councillor for Heritage, José Aix (Citizens). It was a failing about which he remained silent, falling to the mayoress to defend him and to fix the problem.
They also add that “the greatest example of the government paralysis continues to be the lack of a municipal budget, the promise of which was the justification for the motion of censure a year ago.” Therefore, they concluded that “the few projects that are seeing the light of day are those that were inherited from the previous management of the PP.
