Castelló (EFE) measures, seeks to apply a tax cut and return to the double place name of the city.
Biographical data of Carrasco
He was born in Alicante on August 2, 1979 and at the age of 3 he moved to Castelló de la Plana with his family.
She has a degree in Law from the Jaume I University of Castelló; She has a Master’s Degree in Marketing Management and Commercial Management from ESIC, and is a technician in Occupational Risk Prevention.
She has worked as a lawyer in the Office of Attention to Victims of Crime since 2004 of the City of Justice of Castelló.
She is the mother of two girls, one 7 years old and the other 2 who was born in the midst of a pandemic.
political career
He joined the PP in 2002, when he was 22 years old.
She came to the Castelló City Council in 2011, as Councilor for Sports, and in 2015, when Alfonso Bataller resigned as mayor, she became spokesperson for the popular municipal group.
In the municipal elections on May 28, she was running for the second time as a mayoral candidate after eight years of local left-wing government, which in 2015 put an end to two decades of popular hegemony.
She has made the organic management of the party compatible as president of the PP of the city of Castelló with the spokesperson for the popular municipal group.
Carrasco’s first steps as mayor
The most immediate measures that the new mayoress of Castelló intends to undertake are two:
An economic measure: lower taxes to reduce the tax burden on families. In the campaign, he has promised to lower the IBI, the circulation tax or the rates of occupancy of public roads. And he has advocated “importing the successful model that is already applied in cities like Madrid, Alicante or Malaga”.
A symbolic measure: return to the city the bilingual place name, so that it is called both Castelló (the current official name) and Castellón, in a “show of freedom” of the people of Castellón to “express themselves as they feel and as they want”.
Your challenges and priorities of Begoña Carrasco
Among the priorities of Carrasco, who has said that she wants to be the mayoress “of all and govern for all”, without “impositions” or “sectarianism”, there is a plan to improve cleanliness, lighting and safety in the streets of the city.
Other of his challenges will be to work to “recover the capital” and that Castelló once again be “a reference economic engine”; improve public services, such as Health, with the new General Hospital as a priority; and “fight” so that the city receives “what it deserves” from the Council, the Government of Spain and Europe.
In the electoral campaign, he has also shown his commitment to the world of parties, an area from which he wants to move away from “political interventionism” and recover the Party Board, for which he will change the statutes in order to restore their autonomy, in addition to work so that the Gaiatas are BIC.