Torrevieja Mayor Accused of Dictatorial Delusions

Sueña Torrevieja is warning that the mayor of Torrevieja intends to cut the political rights of the councillors and the municipal groups by modifying the municipal organic regulations.

Spokesperson Pablo Samper assures that the proposal to modify the Municipal Organic Regulations presented by the PP government is one of the “greatest democratic attacks in the history of Torrevieja”.

The reduction of the time for interventions in the plenary sessions to only 3 minutes and the limitation of the questions to the government team seeks to “silence the opposition and establish the doctrine of the party and single thought”.

Samper, spokesman for Sueña Torrevieja, has publicly expressed “his astonishment and disappointment” upon learning of the changes that the mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, intends to introduce in the municipal plenary sessions “to silence the opposition political parties and avoid as much as possible the debate and the control”.

Samper says that “it is regrettable that a mayor who boasts of his great support and his character, intends to reduce the interventions in the councillors’ plenary sessions to only 3 minutes, with the transcendental issues that remain ahead for the future of Torrevieja in the coming years”.

Furthermore, he criticises the limitation of the questions to the plenary session to a total of 3 questions, and 2 requests, adding that “it is evident that the mayor is annoyed by the battery of questions that we present plenary session after plenary session to audit the increasingly uncertain management based on large projects, works and infrastructures that are neither here nor expected”.

Samper concludes by stating that “the residents of Torrevieja do not deserve this. Despite the different ways of thinking and ideas, the people of Torrevieja want politicians to debate and earn the salary for which we are paid.

This is an attack on pluralism and freedom of expression, the heart of our democracy, but at Sueña Torrevieja we will continue to work, even more firmly and responsibly, not ruling out resorting to legal action if we believe that our fundamental rights are being violated, and above all we will not allow ourselves to be intimidated by dictatorial delusions”.

This is of course the latest in a wave of moves that could be more acceptable in a dictatorial society, rather than wone of coexistence and respect. We have seen such moves as threats to fine victims of crime, those who purchase goods of the so-called “lookie lookie men”, without any attempt to fine or deal with the perpetrators of those crimes, the sellers and suppliers.

We have seen threats to fine residents who want to deposit rubbish into the dustbins, if they don´t do so within a very short timeframe, without any notion of dealing with the fact that the contract to provide the service is woefully inadequate, and there is no notion of fining those responsible, just, once again, the victims of contractual incompetence.

And, we must not forget the blatant ignoring of laws and rules by the town hall when they don´t suit their own ideas of urban planning, but now, none of these matters, and many more besides, can be brought to account by the attempts to silence those who question their actions, which, incidentally, includes journalists accused of being “bought out” by opposition parties if they too dare to question their motives, whilst they themselves offer “advertising” incentives for towing the party line.