The Partido Popular has achieved two more councillors than it did four years ago and 55% of the votes – The PSOE and Vox win a representative while Sueña maintains one councillor. The night proved to be a disaster though for Los Verdes and Ciudadanos, both of which sink without trace.
The PP has swept the opposition aside in theTorrevieja municipal elections. Eduardo Dolón has not only revalidated the absolute majority that he achieved in 2019, he has bettered it with two more councillors improving from 14 to 16 councillors.
The Partido Popular achieved 55% of the total vote, an increase of 9.2% over the 219 elections, 2,372 more votes: going from 10,261 to 12,640.
This is a resounding result for Dolón and his supporters the face of the pre election speculation on possible pacts to the left and right. The increase also assures a seat for the popular councillor for foreign residents in the town, Gitte Lund Thomsen.
The PSOE increased it’s share by 1 councillor, from 5 to 6 after the prediction of an electoral debacle for the local socialists. Vox doubles its representation with two councillors and 9% of the vote but far from the role it was predicting of being a key to government that it hoped to assume, while Sueña Torrevieja will maintain the one council seat of its independent candidate Pablo Samper.
In accepting victory, Eduardo Dolón thanked and congratulated «Torrevieja because the PP has only channeled that effort and work of the people of Torrevieja, their heart. Because we do things from the heart and the city of Torrevieja wins”. Appearing outside Party HQ he said “we have four very difficult years ahead if we are to achieve the true transformation of our municipality” and the Corporation “must join, we have our arms outstretched.”
The socialist candidate Bárbara Soler expressed her satisfaction with the PSOE result, in which she won six council seats, one more than in 2019, with 4,700 votes and a slight increase in votes in a context, she recalled, in which she only assumed the leadership less than two and a half months before the election.
“We have to improve a lot over the next four years,” she said, having achieved a far better result than that forecast for the local PSOE.
