The political fragmentation left by the scrutiny of the 2019 elections resulted in a peculiar panorama of pacts in the town halls that have ended up blowing up. The formulas chosen were highly heterogeneous: alternating mayors with different acronyms, tripartite groups with formations of the right and left, handing over the baton of command to the third force…
The PP has reopened this legislature the debate on the advisability of guaranteeing by law that the most voted list govern, a measure that if it had been in force four years ago would have prevented the investiture of its candidate for re-election as mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martinez-Almeida. The proposal has not been seconded in any other venue and the new alliances that are sealed after 28-M may once again leave corporations in doubt as to whether they respect the will expressed at the polls.
ERC, the party that won the elections in the second most populous city in Spain, was prevented from coming to power by the sum of the commons of who had been mayor in the previous legislature, Ada Colau, with the PSOE, Manuel Valls -the signing star of Albert Rivera- and two other councilors who had attended the appointment with the polls also under the Ciudadanos (Cs) brand. That pact automatically split the municipal group of oranges in two for the disavowal of the national leadership and two years later the former French prime minister himself renounced his act, declaring himself “proud of having stopped the independence movement.”
The PP, which had been in second place, handed over the Mayor’s Office to Democracia Ourensana, the third force, in exchange for the presidency of the deputation of that same province. Gonzalo Pérez Jácome -nicknamed the Jesús Gil of Galician politics due to his extravagances- ended up expelling from his Executive the party that had seated him in the councilor’s chair amid accusations of lack of loyalty.
The first mayor, the socialist Emilio Sáez, broke on April 25 the alternation agreement in the Mayor’s Office of two years each that he had with Ciudadanos in this municipality of Castilla-La Mancha. The end of the political relationship was precipitated after the orange formation demanded his resignation as a result of EL MUNDO publishing that he was aware of the leaking of exams from the opposition to the Local Police to his adviser four months before it came to light .
This Andalusian town began the legislature with a Ciudadanos mayor, the third party in votes, who resigned in 2021 and announced his support for the investiture of who had been the winner of the elections two years earlier, the socialist Francisco Cuenca. Luis Salvador promoted this change of direction in the consistory, alleging that the PP – the party that he joined with Vox had allowed him to come to power – had “taken out of his sleeve” an alternation pact that “did not exist” and refused to cede the baton.
A motion of no confidence agreed between the PSOE and Cs evicted the popular José Ballesta from the Mayor’s Office on the pretext of the political deterioration that had occurred due to tensions with Vox. The other half of the agreement, that the oranges preside over the regional government, was not fulfilled by three defectors from Inés Arrimadas’s party who allowed the continuity of Fernando López Miras.
A tripartite with left and right formations and alternation in the Mayor’s Office between two of them. This was the formula that was agreed upon in the Murcian municipality after the most voted candidacy, Movimiento Ciudadano de Cartagena, did not want to form a coalition. The first councilor, Ana Belén Castejón, resigned her PSOE card after Ferraz’s disavowal due to her pact with the PP, which has governed the second half of the legislature.
In another of the local corporations with mandates divided in half between two acronyms, the circumstance is going to occur that the candidate of the orange formation in 2019 and current first mayor in this city of Extremadura, Ignacio Gragera, will attend the next elections as top of the popular list.
José Manuel Bermúdez, from Coalición Canaria, recovered in 2020 the Mayor’s Office that had led two legislatures, ousting the socialist Patricia Hernández, who in turn had come to power with the support of the two Cs councilors who failed to comply with the voting discipline set by the match.
The local party CILU Linares stopped supporting the Government of Cs and PP of this town in Jaén last July and, after the judicial suspension twice of the motion of censure and with the support of the IU, gave the Mayorship to Javier Perales , of the PSOE, the party that governed the municipality with the highest unemployment in Spain for two decades.
María Nogareda, from Alternativa dos Veciños, snatched the seat of councilor in this La Coruña City Council in November last year from Benito Portela, from Sadamaioría, a left-wing party related to the tides with whom he formed a coalition in addition to BNG. The change was supported by the popular councilors and the Socialists, who were expelled from the party.
The PP spokesperson in this Madrid City Council, Nieves Roses, was appointed mayor thanks to the support of a non-attached councilor who had been on the PSOE list in 2019, of two Alternativa por Colmenarejo councilors (one of them a candidate for Más Madrid on 28-M), one from Vox and one from Vecinos por Colmenarejo, which was part of the socialist government at the head of the municipality until last February.
The penultimate motion of censure registered in town halls in Spain was that of this town of 4,000 inhabitants in the province of Malaga: four months after the elections, the IU and PP reached an agreement to replace José María García, from the PSOE, which included the power alternates after eight weeks, so the municipality has had three mayors from three different parties in four years.
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