He Popular Party (PP) has won the municipal elections in the town of Torremolinos, collecting a total of 14,497 votes, representing 57.44% of the vote, so Margarita del Cid will be able to govern alone for the next 4 years by getting 17 councilors, thus exceeding the absolute majority of 13 .
A total of 46,932 voters from Torremolinos have been called this Sunday to cast their vote at the polls, with a participation at the closing of the polling stations of 54.31% with a decrease of 1.02 points compared to 2019, and an abstention of 45.68%, experiencing an increase of 1.02 points.
Specifically, a total of 8 political formations have attended these municipal elections, such as the Popular Party (PP) collecting 57.44% of the votes with 14,497the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) with 4,647 votes (18.41%), Vox with 2,070 votes (8.2%) and With Andalusia: Podemos-Izquierda Unida With Torremolinos with 6.55% and 1,655 votes, which they have been the parties that have obtained representation in the municipal Corporation.
Citizens (Cs) lose the 2 councilors and it is left without representation in the City Council by obtaining 212 votes (0.84%), just as the new parties have not managed to obtain enough support, leaving the Union of the People of Torremolinos (UPT) with 795 votes (3.15%). , We are Torremolinos (SMT) with 234 (0.92%) and Torremolinos Único and Partido Autónomos (TUPA) with 793 (3.14%).
The Torremolinos City Council is made up of 25 councilors, so the absolute majority stands at the 13 councillors, and that after the results of this Sunday Margarita del Cid is running to lead the Mayor’s Office after exceeding it with a total of 17. The electoral program of the PP includes proposals such as the construction of more than 200 VPO homes, reserving municipal land for this purpose, as well as the implementation of specific aids; the comprehensive reform of the promenade or the creation of a municipal agency to favor labor insertion.
The pacts have marked the previous governments
Las alliances and pacts have characterized the political scene in recent years in the city, after 20 absolute majorities of the PP between 1995 and 2015, when the Socialists managed to seize the baton thanks to various agreements that were maintained until the end of 2021, the date on which that the popular returned to recover the Mayor’s Office through a motion of censure allowed Margarita del Cid to govern.
In the municipal elections of 2019 the PP of Margaret of the Cid he won in Torremolinos with 32.5% of the votes (8,203 ballots), making a total of nine councillors. For their part, the socialists -led by José Ortiz- were the second force with the most votes after gaining a total of 7,606 votes, representing 30.14% of the vote, and eight councillors, one more than in 2015. Forward He took out three councilors, with 2,844 votes. For his part, citizens he obtained 2,577 votes, 9.81% of the ballot, and two councilors; while Voxwith 1,850 ballots, achieved another two.
the socialist José Ortiz ended up proclaimed mayor in a tense investiture plenary session, thanks to the support of the three Adelante mayors, as well as that of the councilor of Por Mi Pueblo (PMP), Avelina González, a party chaired by Pedro Fernández Montes himself, and the decisive vote of the former number two of Vox, Lucía Cuín.
However, in 2021, just over a year after these municipal elections, a motion of censure presented by the PP with the support of Ciudadanos, Vox, the mayor of Por mi Pueblo (who had been part of Ortiz’s government team) and the non-assigned councilor Nicolás de Miguel, who left Cs.
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