The Mayor of Salobreña announced at the beginning of last month that a grant for 77,000 euros had arrived from the Junta for improving municipal lanes.
This had been announced during a Plenary Meeting of the Town Council which began with a minute’s silence for the victims of gender violence. Then the motions from the different political parties were put forward in chronological order; i.e., the date that they were registered.
The governing party wanted to send a message to the Central Government (run by the same party) urging them to introduce special taxes on electricity companies and financing entities.
However, for Vox the solution does not lie in taxing. Spokesman, Manuel Martín Montero pointed out that there are many ex-politicians from all parties on the utility companies’ payroll as advisors. He pointed out that this wasn’t the case with his party.
The PP voiced their observation that the Central Government has explained where these special taxes would be spent.
Más Salobreña considers that with so much government intervention Spain would end up a communist country. Their Spokesman, Juan Collado, said that it would be better to just demand that banks return the billion-euro bail-out that they received during the economic crisis of 2012; something that they have still not done.
Ciudadanos’ Spokesperson, Plácido Leyva, agreed with applying special taxes but were against the pay rises received in local administrations and the Central Government, to which , the Podemos Spokesperson, Luis Cano replied that his party hadn’t taken a salary in two years.
The Governing-Party Spokeswoman, María José García, asked everybody to stop mixing things up as nobody had spoken about taking over private companies (i.e., the communist-Spain comment).
Which was when the Mayor chipped in and rebuked the Ciudadanos Spokesman for criticising pay rises, reminding him that in 2015 all socialist councillors took a salary cut.
After all the mumbling and grumbling the motion was passed thanks to the votes in favor of PSOE and IU, whilst Vox, PP, Más Salobreña and Ciudadanos voted against.
Then they all went on about how corrupt the respective parties were (save their own) before finally a sensible motion came out from a quarter that was least expected: Vox proposed that a speed limit on the back road that runs past La Guardia be imposed. They based this motion on a report by the Policía Local on speeding and inadequate road signs.
(News: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)