Torrevieja is always better, and so is its municipal management. This is what Mayor Eduardo Dolón (PP) says, and who rarely misses the opportunity to make it known.
He said this on Tuesday during the Plenary session of the council, in response to a request from the Sueña spokesman, Pablo Samper, who questioned the state of the urban service buses that the Council has been using, provided by Avanza, without a contract, for a decade.
Unfortunately, the images presented by Samper to support his claims were of an Avanza minibus operating in Orihuela Costa.
Dolon was quick to point out the oversight, saying, “Indeed, yes, I can see it. But there appears a sign in the photo from the Orihuela Council.” He added, ” I don’t think we have responsibility for Playa Flamenca just yet.”
He went on to say, “However, there are many residents of Orihuela Costa that I meet who tell me that they wish the Torrevieja City Council had the responsibility of managing their services”.
Perhaps then realising that his words were slight on the management of Orihuela Costa by his party colleague and mayor, of what is the historic capital of the region, Pepe Vegara, he clarified: “That is not the case. We can transfer it to the mayor of Orihuela.”
The unlikely segregation
The declaration of the mayor of Torrevieja will be welcomed by many residents of the Orihuela Costa, who are fed up with their own council, taking into account that the majority vote in the recent municipal and district boards was obtained by an independence party.
This is an Oriolano City Council whose main headquarters is more than 30 kilometres, a council that still has not done something as simple and symbolic as hold a plenary session in its coastal town hall.
We must wonder what the mayor and his colleagues would have thought of the Torrevieja leaders’ words in the Orihuela City Council.
