The Partido Popular has kicked off their local-elections, pre-campaign, which is why you have probably seen banners stretching across the roads with Trinidad’s face, calling for a change.

Of the things mentioned at the press call to announce the pre-campaign, was a promise that they intended to eliminate all the blue zones along the town’s beaches, restricting them to the commercial centre, which is what the blue zones were originally intended for. She didn’t mention where the lost revenue would be made up from, but there will be plenty of time to find out between now and the local elections.

One reporter asked her whether she intended to include something to differentiate her party’s programme from that of the Mayor’s – a veiled insinuation that the PP appears to have been supporting the Mayor during this last term of office, usually by abstaining when the other opposition party votes against the Mayor (only as a block can the two opposition parties outnumber the Mayor’s party when it comes to voting in the Council Meetings).

She considered that such observations were unfair and inaccurate, pointing out that her party decides how it will vote on such occasions on the merit of the proposal, not the party who moves it.

The only party that has a chance at beating the Mayor – and a very slim one at that – is the Partido Popular, as the economic crisis has had a very adverse affect on the PSOE, who govern both on a regional and national level. Secondly, when there are national-level elections, the majority of the Mayor’s followers vote PP, rather than PSOE, as obviously, they can’t vote for the Mayor in the General Elections. Let’s see.