It is reported that the worst kept secret in the run up to the Municipal elections was finally confirmed on Thursday evening at the Extraordinary Meeting called by CLARO, when the Orihuela Costa party unanimously confirmed that, in exchange for the placement of a candidate on their electoral list, they will be putting their support behind the Partido Popular.
At the meeting, the reason cited for not contesting the elections as a ‘stand alone party’ was the fall, by over 30%, in the number of foreigners who are currently registered in the municipality.
The membership was told that in the event that they head the municipal government, the Popular Party has guaranteed the appointment of a Councillor for the Coast with competences, a budget and a supporting team with C.L.A.R.O representation.
The CLARO activist to be included on the PP electoral list, as an Independent, will be it’s President Antonio Cerdán, although at what number we do not know. However, as the PP won just 9 of the council’s 25 seats in the 2019 elections, anything lower than that number would be unlikely to return him as a councillor, wasting any opportunity of there being a coastal councillor.
In a statement issued on Friday, C.L.A.R.O believes that the programme and reforms which will be finalised and presented in the coming days will receive broad support from the population of the coast and its representative associations.
The party says that it is convinced that by joining forces and working together, the forthcoming elections will result in a stable, cohesive and majority government which will promote the unity and integration of all parts of the Orihuela municipality, Centre, Pedanias and Coast.
