Logroño, (EFE).- The popular Raúl Riaño will take office next Saturday, June 17, as mayor of Santo Domingo de la Calzada, after the governance agreement reached by his party with Por La Rioja, in order to “recover the illusion for our municipality”.
This is how Óscar Reina explained it to EFE this Tuesday, who was the head of the Por La Rioja list in the last municipal elections in Santo Domingo de la Calzada and who, together with two other councilors from his party, will vote this Saturday with the 4 that the PP contributes in favor of Riaño, with which they will exceed the 6 that other formations add.
Riaño has highlighted to EFE that the negotiation with Por La Rioja “has shown us that the interests in this municipality were not so disparate” and “we have found a very good disposition” in this party to reach the agreement that the two formations.
He added that, with this agreement, “we are going to give stability” to Santo Domingo for the next four years.
He has also assured that in the negotiations “we have not talked about armchairs or salaries”, although, “logically, that will have to be dealt with”; and he has recognized his intention that Óscar Reina be the first deputy mayor.
“But the important thing is that we have talked above all about projects for Santo Domingo”, among which he has highlighted, to try to promote them in the short term, the development of industrial land, the expansion of the nursery school and the construction of a sport City.
a simple deal
Also for Reina, the agreement has been “simple” because “both parties wanted to focus on the future of Santo Domingo and move forward” and, therefore, “we have joined forces and then other things will be seen regarding the organization.”
“What worried the PP and us was the advance of Santo Domingo and there is time for the rest,” stressed Reina, who stressed that, for him, now the PP and Por La Rioja make up in Santo Domingo “a marriage in the one that cannot be thought of in any of the two forces separately”.
In any case, he concluded, “what mattered to us was to end a legislature of tension, weariness, boredom and even hatred” in the municipality and “open a period of hope, to stop suffocating the people and make a Santo Domingo better”.
The new municipal corporation will be formed by 4 councilors of the PP, 3 PSOE, 3 of Por La Rioja and 3 of Muévete Santo Domingo.
The legislature that is now ending began with the PSOE at the head of the Mayor’s Office, but, throughout these four years, the PP replaced it after an agreement with Muévete Santo Domingo, which was broken last December, although the popular David Mena continued as mayor.