The PSPV-PSOE candidate for Mayor of Alicante, Ana Barceló, has unveiled this morning the poster of her candidacy and has announced that a presentation ceremony will be held on Friday 28 at the port dock that houses the new headquarters of Digital District to which Ximo Puig will attend.
‘Alicante, let’s shine again’, is the chosen slogan, along with an image of the candidate dressed in a yellow jacket, defying superstitions – “I really like that jacket”, he said, “and it represents the light of Alicante”. After her portrait, the wavy motif that characterizes La Explanada. Lower down, smaller, your name and the logo of the party.
Barceló has reviewed the work that in recent weeks has led her to meet with many groups in the city, even with individual people who have connected with her through a WhatsApp channel created for this purpose, a system that she has called “coffee blindly”. The process has allowed the candidate – who was mayoress of Sax and in recent years Minister of Health and spokesperson for the PSPV in the Corts – to get to know the city better while making herself known among the people of Alicante.
“The project is Alicante. The one who is going to execute and carry it out is the PSOE, but what is above everything, including partisan interests, is Alicante”, highlighted Barceló, who has not yet held any meeting with other parties with which, hypothetically, you might need to negotiate to form a majority.
The candidate has expressed her desire that Alicante “shine again”, as it did in the so-called Silver Age, a period between the 19th and 20th centuries in which the capital experienced a notable economic and cultural boom in which figures like Oscar Esplá or Gabriel Miró. So, Barceló has said, “many people from Alicante decided to promote a whole cultural revolution and place Alicante in a leading position”. To achieve it again, the ex-minister is committed to retaining and relying on her talent. “We want Alicante, the capital, to once again be a benchmark at a national and international level.”
“We must leave behind a paralyzed, stagnant, abandoned and, why not say it, dirty city. We have to recover our position as the capital, give a 180-degree turn to municipal policies,” he said. Regarding her possibilities, the candidate assures that she never looks at the polls, “I don’t even know if my party has them.”
According to the socialist candidate, “central” issues, such as education, social services, care for the most vulnerable, employment or housing “have been abandoned by a government that has been more obsessed with blocking any initiative from the Generalitat than establishing cooperation and collaboration”.
Among them, he has mentioned the lack of tenders in the Edificant Plan, the return of social aid or the non-adherence to free transport for young people (the City Council announced this Tuesday that it will be free from August, after rejecting this possibility in different occasions). “His personal interest in him and his absurd political war have been put above the interests of the citizenry,” Barceló has criticized.
