If you´ve ever been to the Orihuela Moors and Christians fiesta but thought to yourself, “it´s lacking something”, then your dreams might soon come true as the town hall has decided to increase the budget for the fiesta to 313,000 euro.
By contrast, the amount allocated to the party spreading over just a few days is around double the amount allocated to the meals on wheels service for a whole year destined to help the most vulnerable pensioners in the municipality (weekends excluded because everyone knows that vulnerable pensioners don’t apparently need to eat on a weekend).
The government team had been facing criticism since the budget allocation had not changed since 2018, like the rest of the municipal budgets, and in the face of increasing prices the idea of scaling back the expenses is seemingly an unimaginable concept when it comes to partying.
The good news is that each of the groups involved in the celebration will receive extra subsidy, and because it falls below the amount required to force a tender process, they will not have to justify the additional expense and simply revel in the rewards without audit.
It is also presumably entirely coincidental that many of the current government team, and their advisors, who have increased the payment of public money to the participating groups are active members of those same groups who will now be benefitting.
We have not been able to find evidence that any members of the government team are recipients of the meals on wheels service.
