The Valencia City Council has rectified its decision to prohibit the sale of alcohol at festivals after 2 in the morning during the Fallas celebration. This was confirmed this Wednesday by the municipal spokesperson, Juan Carlos Caballero, minutes before the start of the plenary session of the City Council. The popular leader has indicated that the decision has been made after “listening and talking” with the Fallas groups, but also with the agents involved such as the Local Police. In fact, it was the body that made this request that, in principle, the government team adopted.
After listening to all parties and with the idea of ??”making the residents’ rest compatible with leisure and celebration,” according to Caballero, the local government has shown itself willing to modify the initial proposal presented on the Fallas side less than one week.
The document, which aims to facilitate the Fallas groups and the rest of the citizens so that the exercise of their activities can be compatible, established that the beverage bars installed by the Fallas commissions could not dispense alcohol beyond two in the morning. early morning.
A circumstance that generated controversy from minute one, given that the closing of the festivals was decreed at 4 in the morning. The fear of drinking and the anger of the commissions over the cutting of hours – and therefore – of income has forced the Valencia City Council to rectify this prohibition and leave it as a mere recommendation. Anyone who has visited the Fallas festival at those early hours of the morning can safely guess what that recommendation will turn out to be.
