The second vice president of the Provincial Council of Alicante, the ‘popular’ Ana Serna, has shown this morning the support of the government team of the provincial institution to the deputy Javier Gutiérrez, who will go to the Non-Affiliated Group after his recent decision to leave Ciudadanos, the political group to which he belonged, with whom the PP maintains a government pact.
Serna, who is the spokesman for the government team, assures that Gutiérrez will continue to lead the Infrastructure and Assistance to Municipalities competencies “since his work in the last four years in this area has been magnificent, demonstrating a great capacity for work oriented to improve the infrastructures and services in all the municipalities of the province”.
The president of Ciudadanos in the Valencian Community, Mamen Peris, had demanded that Gutiérrez return the minutes, both in the Alicante Provincial Council and in the Xixona City Council, a town where he is a councilor. The Ciudadanos leadership kept a disciplinary file open against the deputy, whom Peris has accused of being “disloyal” to the party “that gave him the opportunity to be a deputy and mayor.”
Peris expressed his intention to contact the president of the Provincial Council of Alicante, Carlos Mazón, “to demand the immediate cessation of the powers of the defecting deputy.” However, the popular spokesperson, Ana Serna, has shown “our full support for Javier Gutiérrez”, who has valued “his ability to see clearly what the needs of the cities and towns of Alicante are, especially the smallest , promoting programs as important as the Plan Cerca, with which we have mobilized in this legislature more than 103 million euros, of which 43.5 million correspond to this year”.
The deputy also highlighted, in this regard, Planifica, an investment plan that, with more than 81 million euros from the Provincial Council, has allowed the promotion of nearly 300 works. “It is another example of Gutiérrez’s management at the head of Infrastructures and Assistance to Municipalities”, she added.
In addition to extolling the work carried out by the deputy, the second vice president has also expressed the advisability of keeping the Provincial Government “united and cohesive in the face of these last months of the legislature”, while insisting that “The government pact was made thinking of the interests of the province and not of political parties.”
“Political and institutional stability is a priority for us because we want to complete the investments that we have launched in the last four years, historic investments that have substantially improved the lives of the citizens of this province,” concludes Serna.
