The mayoral candidate for the PSOE in Torrevieja, Bárbara Soler, wanted to express the objective of the photos of the candidates of the Socialist Party that have been presented during the last month. “Many people have realised that these are not your typical election campaign photos. We didn’t want them to be.”
The socialist candidate proposed to all the people who made up her candidacy that they take a photo instead of Torrevieja that they would like to improve, a problem to avoid or a situation to denounce. “We call them photocomplaints. We could have opted for the same campaign as always; photos at sunset with the impressive landscapes that Torrevieja and La Mata offer us, but we wanted citizens to know that we are people like them, aware of the many wonders of our city, but also of its shortcomings.”
“What better way to claim a change than by taking campaign photos in all those places that we see every day without repair, without maintenance or without use. Some people have noticed that the backgrounds that were intuited in the photographs were not pleasant. I told them that’s why we chose them,” says Soler.
Each photograph is accompanied by an explanatory phrase on the chosen background. The contexts are as varied as the unfortunate roundabout in front of the IES Las Lagunas, sports courts and parks in a state of complete abandonment, or the abandoned Multipurpose Building next to the Palace of Justice.
Among the phrases that accompany the photos there are examples such as “Since 1994 wasting public money (about 3,000 a month) in the rent of this place. It has been labelled “provisional” for 29 years” (in reference to the Museum of the Sea), “Poor management has delayed on several occasions the urgent rehabilitation work of the educational centre and has caused it to cost almost one million euro more for taxpayers” (in reference to the IES Libertas) or “When one is committed to doing something we must commit to maintain it. Safety, health, maintenance, welfare should not understand neighbourhoods. Torrevieja is all one, we deserve the same” (in reference to the Plaza de la Habana).
Finally, Bárbara Soler concluded by pointing out that the group photo was taken in the Doña Sinforosa Park “because it is a local heritage that we will not see the same again. From the PSOE we want to value every corner of our city and we are going to do it”.
The full album has been published on their Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/psoedetorrevieja
