Santander (EFE) Socialist mayor of San Vicente de la Barquera, Charo Uzquiza, to make her mayor.
This has been the anecdote of a day without notable incidents that has shown the municipal power that the PP will accumulate over the next four years, in which it will govern in almost half of the town councils, and has served for 100 of the 102 Cantabrian town councils to have already mayor or mayoress, while Ribamontán al Mar and Penagos will have to wait until July 7 for separate appeals to be resolved on the 28M electoral counts in those municipalities.
doubts cleared
In the rest, the town councils have been formed and, in some, the governments have been cleared after three weeks of the elections, as in San Vicente, where the new mayoress has expressed “complete surprise”, after receiving the vote of the popular councilors, who have given the PSOE the baton of command, against the San Vicente de la Barquera (SVB) group, which won the elections on 28M.
Another city council that has cleared its future has been Laredo, in which, finally, the popular Miguel González will occupy the mayor’s office, who recovers the government for his party after eight years thanks to the support of Ola Cantabria, in a very divided municipal corporation, with seven games within it.
And Noja has also finally been able to meet who will govern their destinies for the next four years, the popular Mireia Mazas, the first mayoress of the municipality, who will have to govern in a minority since they have not been able to close agreements with any group of the opposition.
The same has happened in Medio Cudeyo, another consistory that was on the air and in which the regionalist María Higuera will continue to lead, who will have to do it without external support and in a minority, the same thing that the popular Óscar López will have to do in Cabezon de la Sal.
The most populated
Among those who already knew the result, in Santa Cruz de Bezana, Vox has entered a municipal government for the first time in Cantabria, hand in hand with its two councilors, who have made the popular Carmen Pérez mayor, who in her first intervention has defended that “all agreements are legitimate as long as they are between parties that respect the legal framework of the Constitution.”
Santander has seen how Gema Igual (PP) has sworn in its third consecutive term with the commitment to “reach out to everyone” despite its absolute majority and with the aim of “making its project for the city a reality with a government of the PP in Cantabria and hopes that in Spain.
And in Torrelavega, the regionalist Javier López Estrada has renewed as municipal councilor with the aim of “finishing all the transformative projects” launched during the last four years in his second legislature as head of the City Council of the capital of Besaya.
Among the most populated Cantabrian municipalities, the planned script has also been followed in Camargo, where Diego Movellán (PP) is already mayor; in Castro Urdiales, with the continuity of Susana Herrán (PSOE), or in Piélagos, with the popular Carlos Caramés as the new mayor.
How many municipalities governs each?
The balance of this day, once the doubts that remained about the governments in fifteen municipalities have been cleared up, is that the PP will be the party with the greatest municipal power with 48 local governments, ahead of the PRC, which has reduced its mayoralties to 32 and the PSOE, which has also lost local executives and has kept 15.
Apart from these large parties, the overwhelming majority obtained by Javier Fernández Soberón stands out, in Astillero, where he will repeat as mayor under the Ciudadanos brand, with the support of fifteen of the seventeen councilors of the consistory, which triples his electoral result from four years ago.