Alicante (EFE) with the extinct UCD and Alianza Popular and in the last eight calls with the PP.
Seguí has announced to EFE that he has made the decision because “you have to know when to leave” and despite the fact that at 82 years old he feels physically and mentally good, since he is convinced that he would win again for the twelfth time in a town of little more than of a hundred inhabitants.
“I could continue to manage it perfectly”, the mayor has maintained, “but I have found people with enthusiasm”, to which must be added that “my wife, my children and my brothers have told me that ‘it’s all right’, and I think that they are right after more than 51 years as mayor.”
Born in Almudaina itself on March 3, 1941, Seguí will dedicate himself from May to helping his son in his cherry farm, within a cooperative where he exports under the ‘Oriana’ brand, and will also lend him a hand on some land that has almond and olive trees.
It will happen to him in the cartel Pau Navarro, 26 years old
The young Pau Navarro, 26, will succeed him as the PP electoral poster, at the head of a list that will include his grandson, Adrián Seguí, only 20, to opt for one of the five councilor minutes.
Although he will no longer be mayor, the veteran politician will help whoever is elected “one hundred percent” by explaining what he needs for the day-to-day running of the consistory and, if necessary, he will accompany him to Alicante or Valencia to solve paperwork.
“I am leaving the town hall but I will be there and I will accompany you to the Provincial Council of Alicante or to Valencia. I will always be ready because, although those who come are smart, hard-working and very responsible, I know that I have to teach them what I have learned during these half a century”, he indicated.
Seguí was president of the local agrarian chamber when on February 13, 1972, the until then mayor, Manuel Domínguez Moltó, handed him the keys to the town hall in the midst of Franco’s dictatorship, assuring him that he had not touched the municipal budget for that year: 17,000 pesetas (102 euros).
However, a few days later the plumber arrived with a bill of 14,000 pesetas (84.1 euros) for placing the meters, and it gave him the first surprise of his long political career since he was left practically without money with the entire year ahead of him. .
Governing a town of 112 inhabitants
In a recent interview with EFE, he explained that the first work he promoted in this town in the interior of Alicante was a wall for a path under the Almohad tower to facilitate the movement of tractors and the few cars that were there.
In this time, Almudaina has gone from 310 inhabitants to the current 112, with whom Seguí has done “everything” every time they have asked him for help: From helping to dress the dead at dawn because the funeral home did not arrive, to carrying in his car someone to the hospital or to mediate in family disputes, and throughout his career he has highlighted the respect he has had for opponents from other parties, mainly the PSPV-PSOE, whom he presumes have been “friends”.
Married to Rosario and with two granddaughters and a grandson, this man has governed during the Dictatorship and in the Transition before winning the first democratic elections by an absolute majority, in 1979, with the UCD, which he repeated in the following two with AP and the eight remaining with the PP, the last with the vote of 47 of the 80 votes cast.
The most veteran mayor has never received a public salary and has only received travel and meal expenses when he has made arrangements elsewhere until this term it was agreed that, like the rest of the councillors, he would receive compensation of 30 euros for each quarterly plenary session (120 euros per year).
