Curious Candidacies and Unlikely Candidates in Valencian Community Elections

He zip code and dreams They also have their place in the May 28 elections in the Valencian Community, where they name curious candidacies that leave little to be guessed about their ideology and in which there is no shortage of candidates who make the leap into politics. from professions far from her.

Along with the ‘lifelong’ political parties, you can find others as Electoral Group 03630, which is presented in Sax (Alicante) under the name of the postal code of this town; Dream Torrevieja (Dream); For you, for Elda with common sense (PESC) or Peñíscola Libre y Próspera (PNLYP).

Alcoyanos will be able to vote for mayor Third Age in Action (3e); the voters of Teulada (Alicante) will be able to do so by EME (Party for a state of equitable improvement) and there are several formations presented in the Community that bear in their name the ‘let’s work for’, ‘focus on’, ‘live for’ or ‘let’s improve’ and the name of the municipality.

[El Botànic de Puig, en el aire tras el 28M por la fragilidad de Unidas Podemos y el auge del PP en Alicante]

You can also find a candidacy with a single member and whose name is that of the candidate -that of Antonio Macián Macián (AM) in Torás (Castellón)- and two lists made up exclusively of women: those of Compromís in Almoines (Valencia) and in La Torre de les Maçanes (Alicante).

Among the candidates for the lists are several athletes, such as Juan Carlos Roseswho was a motocross rider and won four provincial championships in the Valencian Community and heads the list of the PP in Albaida (Valencia) with the motto ‘Calfant motors’, or the driver Vicent Cervera, PP candidate for Alaquàs (Valencia) with the motto ‘Va de bo’.

The former footballer of Hercules edward rodriguezfrom Cádiz awarded as ‘adopted Alicante’ and all-time top scorer for the Herculaneum team, appears on the Alicante City Council’s socialist list, while the president of the Lucentum Foundation, heir to the historic Lucentum, Toni Gallegohas joined the list of the PP of that city.

In the Ciudadanos candidacy for Valencia City Council you can find the senior athlete Eva Gadeawho was the triple long jump world champion in Finland 2022 and European champion in Braga 2022, and in the PP to Les Corts to Mari Carmen Martínez Clemor, who was an elite rhythmic gymnastics athlete in the 1980s.

An actress, a bullfighter and several singers

All professions fit on the electoral lists of the Community, such as actress (Isabel Balaguer, who has participated in television series such as “Cuéntame cómo pasó”, “Acacias 38” or “El secreto de Puente Viejo”, is an independent on the list of the PP of Alcoy); that of bullfighter (the matador Vicente Barrera is on the Vox list at the Valencia City Council), or banderillero (José Fernando Arévalo is the mayor of the PP in Novetlè, Valencia).

From the kitchen to politics, the cook has made the leap Toni Romanswho has worked in several Michelin-starred restaurants and is on the socialist list in Ondara (Alicante), while the head of the PP list in Genovés (Valencia), Pablo Vilaris a firefighter, and the mayor of the PP in Segart (Valencia), Jorge Barrosois a Venezuelan politician who is now taking up that vocation in Spain.

And from the artistic world, the singer-songwriter and founder of the group Al Tall came to the candidacies Miguel Gil, which is on the regional Compromís list for Valencia; the vocalist of the group Zoo, Pancho, substitute on the list of the Més Gandia coalition as an independent; either Adrian Martin (the ‘drag queen’ Choriza May), substitute in the list of Compromís for Guadassuar.

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