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he president of the Moors and Christians Association has replaced Emilio Bascuñana at the top of the Partido Popular list for the May 2023 elections.
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His selection was confirmed on Saturday by the PPCV electoral committee when it announced the list of candidates for the entire Valencian Community. Bascuñana meanwhile, had declared his intention to withdraw from mainstream politics during the previous evening. Since the motion of censure on April 25, that ousted the PP from government, the former President of the Red Cross had returned to his previous vocation as a family doctor at the Álvarez de la Riva health centre in the city. He said that he had planned to make the announcement of his retirement at a meeting of the Orihuela PP on Saturday, at which time he would communicate to his pedáneos and collaborators his intention to step aside, "But unfortunately, due to deadlines that have been imposed I have been forced to bring forward the statement that I wanted to share with all of you tomorrow ", he stated in an interview on local television on Friday night.
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