office@theleader.info
No 1013 Monday 4th - Sunday 10th March 2024
637 227 385
The Costa Blanca’s oldest ‘FREE’ English language newspaper - WITH THE LARGEST LOCAL CIRCULATION
SEE PAGE 5
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR P.I.O.C. IN ELECTIONS TO DISTRICT BOARD X ot a single government supporter (PP/VOX) was elected to the Board in District X at the elections to the District Board, held last Thursday across the Orihuela Municipality, with senior members from the Party for the Independence of Orihuela Costa (PIOC), taking 5 of the 6 available seats, the sixth going to a former advisor of Ciudadanos.
N
In total, 13 polling stations were opened across the municipality, functioning in 7 of the 11 municipal districts, with one in Orihuela Costa at Alameda del Mar for Districts X and Xl. In four others, however, the number of residents and associations seeking election did not reach the required number of candidates. But, according to the spokesperson for the opposition PSOE party, Carolina Garcia, you might have been forgiven if it all passed you by, as she launched a scathing attack on the Orihuela council about the lack of publicity provided by them for the elections to these important political-administrative bodies. On the council website it states, “The District Boards are the highest body of citizen participation,” and yet, other than an article written on 11 December last year, calling for nominations, there seems to be little further information. In a statement, Maria Garcia said, “"We do not understand how the Council has not informed the residents of where and how they should vote, and neither have they been encouraged to attend the voting centres or told how do so.”
PAGE “This lack ofCONTINUED knowledge by the ON general public,”2 she contin-