President announces new structure

THE Provincial Council of Almeria held an extraordinary and urgent plenary session on Friday, July 21, to discuss and approve operational and organisational matters.

The president of the council, Javier Aureliano García, from the Popular Party, emphasised teamwork “to continue improving the province of Almería” and urged the opposition “to reach all agreements that are beneficial with spirit and continuous dialogue.”

However, there was some disagreement from the Socialist Party (PSOE) over the organ­ isational structure. Javier Aureliano García explained that PP was allocated 16 provincial representative posts and six councillor posts while the PSOE was allocated eight provincial representatives and three councillor posts. To justify this, he stated that “the last time the PSOE governed in this Provincial Council it had 72 representatives,” in contrast with the PP, who only had “three”.

PSOE spokesman, Manuel Ruiz del Real, argued that this was imbalanced as Vox, with only three provincial representatives was allotted two coun­

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cillor posts, only one more than the Socialists with eight provincial representatives. He insisted that this would “suffocate the opposition” and violate current regulations, because “they are going to distribute €1.2 million a year to their advisers, €135,000 to PP and €90,000 to Vox.”

Carlos Sánchez, the representative for Agri­Food Promotion, argued that “The government of Spain has 1,900 councillors. It is not proportional that the Cabinet of the President of the Government has 400 advisers or that Mr Pedro