Firstly, cheer up; it will all be over by Sunday night. Secondly, we’re in for a nightmare week until then.

Just when we’re all getting fed up with endless radio and TV political messages, blaring tanoys on poster-festooned cars etc parties get into a flamewar, which at least brightens things up for the rest of us.

Take, for example, the decision by the La Junta Electoral de Zona (JEZ) based in Motril, covering this part of the coast. They have ordered the Almuñécar Mayor’s party to take down two thirds of the posters on lampposts in the centre of the town.

This came after the PA lodged a complaint on the 15th, claiming that the PP had virtually occupied 100% of the said lampposts along Avenida Costa del Sol, La Carrera, Avenida Europa, Juan Carlos I, Paseo del Altillo and over in La Herradura on the Paseo Andrés Segovia, Avenida Prieto Moreno and Plaza Nueva.

The next day the Election Board instructed the Mayor to take down two out of every three posters on the lampposts.

But it doesn’t end there because not content on bagging all the lampposts, claims the PA (Benavides) the Mayor then tried to deny the other parties the banners strung from one side of the street to the other, along certain thoroughfares.

The PA claims it received dubious instructions from the Town Hall Architect ordering them to remove the banners because in “high winds they could damage or pull over the lampposts.”

Benavides party sarcastically replied that not once in the history of Spain since the reestablishment of Democracy, has there been a case of a lamppost being pulled over by a banner… not once and nowhere in Spain.

But Benny is hardly one to be in a position to complain about fair play, some may consider.

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)