Pepe Vegara meets with Orihuela Costa Residents

The Leader Newspaper joined with the Asociación de vecinos Cabo Roig y Lomas-Orihuela Costa (AVCRL) and invited guests, on Wednesday, at a meeting with the PP candidate for mayor of Orihuela, Pepe Vegara. The gathering was held at La Galería de la Mirada restaurant and was attended by approximately 20 members of the local community.

A number of questions were put to the PP leader, answers to which are summarised below:

1. MUNICIPAL BUDGET: Approval of the budget is matter of the utmost urgency and following the approval of a transition budget for 2023, the PP will immediately start work on the 2024 budget.

If the municipality is to climb out of the hole it is currently in, the 2018 income figure of 80 million euros is insufficient so he will increase income by a relevant amount and provide better management of subsidies and remainders, which he believes is a figure much higher than the 15 million euros that the mayoress expressed in a recent plenary session.

2. COUNCILLOR FOR THE COAST: The coast will receive it’s own budget and will have and the freedom to make it’s own decisions. Two dedicated representatives will be appointed, Raúl Fernández, who is on the PP list at No 11, and who will have the collabora-