By Peter Houghton
Dear friends and neighbours of the municipality of Orihuela – here are some questions for you.
- Are members of the Orihuela government totally honest about their working practices?
- Do they really believe in equality for all, or just for the favoured minority?
What we have witnessed in recent years is that whoever runs our council, they are self-centred, inward looking and totally disinterested in the distress they are causing.
Instead of thinking about how they can best serve the general interests of the entire municipality, they are usually busy serving their own.
Legitimate questions are raised through the proper channels about accounts, distribution, contracts, expenditure, etc., for the Coast compared to the rest of the municipality, but we rarely get straight answers.
They are as clear as mud – as if there is something to hide, hence the expression “secrets and lies.”
We believe that budgets should be distributed evenly throughout the municipality not to a favoured minority. There should be respect and dignity for all.
In the municipality of Orihuela, you are never wrong if you are doing the right thing.
As an elected official, with that power comes great responsibility, which makes its holders morally responsible for both what they choose to do and what they fail to do with it. It used to be about trying to do something, but now it’s all about trying to be someone.
There is no difference between the current PP/VOX coalition. They are incompetent, nefarious, etc. In fact, as the saying goes, they are the two cheeks of the same backside.
What is needed is an approach that will create policies that suit Orihuela as a whole. Residents are tired of the many years of indifference, seeing our taxes squandered without thought or conscience on the part of the same political parties.
The municipality of Orihuela rules with biased agendas – they don’t care because they have never governed for all the people.
They were elected to represent the interests of the residents to the best of their ability but after 18 months in government all we now see is how they continually serve their own interests at the cost of the residents. And now, with this level of abandonment, incompetency, nepotism, apathy, and mismanagement, the municipality of Orihuela is becoming synonymous with corruption.
This is a call to the residents of our municipality, whoever you are, to unite and defend our rights at the ballot box in the next local election.
The honest truth is that we are alone, we cannot depend on anybody to come to our assistance. We need to face our adversary, the government of Orihuela, head on. And to do that we need a party, with the right leader, to fight for the Coast.
Every vote is critical, and not just British votes, but all of the nationalities, otherwise nothing will change. This should be a wakeup call for the Coast.
YOUR VOTE IS YOUR POWER, A VOTE NOT CAST IS A VOTE WASTED.
‘IF YOU FIGHT, YOU WON’T ALWAYS WIN, IF YOU DON’T FIGHT, YOU WILL ALWAYS LOSE.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
