Loli Benlloch | Valencia (EFE) try, thus, to revalidate their triumphs.
There are only two exceptions among the 23 mayors of towns with more than two thousand voters who had support of more than 60% in the 2019 elections, who have made the personal decision not to run again: Faura and Navarrés. , both in the province of Valencia.
Thus, the socialist Toni Gaspar, mayor of Faura since 2003, current president of the Valencia Provincial Council and who in 2019 voted for 62.8% of a census of 2,768 voters, is replaced as mayor by Consol Durán, although he testimonially appears in the list as third substitute.
The mayoress of Navarrés (Valencia) since 2011, Estela Darocas (PP), hands over the baton, after three legislatures at the head of the municipality and after four years ago support of 74% of a census of 2,281 voters, to her deputy mayor , Federico Argente, and remains number two on the list.
The socialist mayors
Thirteen other socialist mayors with the most votes repeat as headliner, such as Carlos Fernández Bielsa from Mislata (Valencia), who since 2011 has held the leadership of this town with more than 32,500 voters and is going for his fourth term after having counted with a support of 62.9% in 2019.
In Cullera (Valencia), Jordi Mayor, mayor since 2015, is seeking his third term in this town with more than 16,000 potential voters after having obtained 64.2% support, like the mayoress of Benifaió (Valencia), Marta Ortiz , whom 63% of the 9,322 possible voters voted for.
In L’Alcúdia (Valencia), Andreu Salom aspires to his third term after revalidating the mayoralty four years ago with the support of 60.9% of a census of more than 9,000 voters; and in El Pinós (Alicante) Lázaro Azorín will attempt his fourth term after 71.1% of a census of 5,685 voters voted for him in 2019.
Of the municipalities with more than 3,000 female voters, the mayor of Bocairent (Valencia), Xavier Molina, is running for his second term after achieving 67.5% support in 2019, and that of La Pobla Llarga (Valencia), Neus Garrigues, opts for the third after receiving a support of 61.8%.
In the localities with a census of more than 2,000 voters, the mayor of Vallada (Valencia), María José Tortosa, who went for her second term after having the support of 75.5% of the census, repeat as candidates; the mayor of Morella (Castellón) since 2012, Rhamsés Ripollés (74.3%); and that of La Font d’En Carrós (Valencia) since 2019, Pablo Puig (73.7%).
The list is completed by the mayor of Los Montesinos (Alicante), José Manuel Butrón, who has led this town since 1991, when it was established as a municipality after separating from Almoradí and had a 64.2% support in 2019; the mayor of Anna (Valencia) since 2015, Pilar Sarrión (62.5%), and that of Miramar (Valencia), Pilar Peiró (60.4), mayor since 2019 in a municipality where the PSPV-PSOE has always governed.
popular mayors
The Popular Party has placed six of its seven most voted mayors in medium-sized municipalities again as headliners, starting with that of La Nucía (Alicante), Bernabé Cano, mayor since 2001 and who in 2019 achieved the support of 64 .2% of an electoral census of more than 12,500 people.
In Finestrat (Alicante), Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca opts for his third term after revalidating the command rod in 2019 with a support of 64.8% of the census of 4,381 voters; in Formentera del Segura (Alicante), Francisco Cano, seeks the second after having the support of 65.1% of a census of 2,338 voters, and that of Sant Joan de Moró (Castellón), Vicente Pallarés, is going for the fourth legislature after 69.8% of a census of 2,329 voters supported him.
The other mayors of the PP of towns with more than 2,000 voters who repeat as candidates are that of Benijófar (Alicante) since 2011, Luis Rodríguez (69.5% support in 2019), and that of Vall d’Alba (Castellón) since 2019, Marta Barrachina (63.6%).
mayors from other parties
Other parties with mayors supported by six out of ten voters who are a repeat candidate for mayor is that of Ontinyent (Valencia) Jorge Rodríguez, mayor since 2011 (the first two legislatures for the PSPV and since 2019, when he was expelled, at the head of Ens Uneix) and that he is once again mayoral after having the vote of 66.1% of a census of 26,740 voters.
In Alberic (Valencia), the mayor since 2015, Toño Carratalá, repeats one on the Ciutadans per Alberic list after achieving the support of 60.9% of a census of 7,617 possible voters four years ago.
No Compromís mayor exceeds 60% of support in municipalities with an electoral census of more than 2,000 female voters, although the three most voted in localities with more than 1,500 female voters repeat at the top of the list: Joan Miquel Garcés, mayor since 2011 of Xaló (Alicante) (65% support in 2019); Salvador Masaroca, mayor of Beniparrell (Valencia) since 2019 (67.5%), and that of Xeresa (Valencia) since 2019, Ana Peiró (67.5%).
In Ciudadanos, its two most voted mayors correspond to municipalities with an electoral census of less than a thousand people and repeat candidates for Cofrentes (Valencia), Salvador Honrubia, mayor since 2019 with 70% support, and Llanera de Ranes ( Valencia) since 2015, Antonio Vicente Lluch (75% support). EFE