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VANESSA MELGAR
The mayors of Ronda, Algatocín, Gaucín, Júzcar and Jimera de Líbar, (María de la Paz Fernández, José Manuel López, Pedro Godino, Francisco Lozano and Francisco Javier Lobo respectively), joined up with other local representatives of the Partido
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Local councils around Spain were officially established on Saturday with new mayors being elected and councillors sworn-in. This week the new and re-elected council leaders have started naming the councillors on their close government team who will
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In last month’s council elections in the 103 municipalities in Malaga province, including the Costa del Sol, most councils saw one party win an overall majority. Who will be the next mayor after Saturday’s swearing-in ceremonies is a foregone conclus
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IVÁN GELIBTER
The identity of the next mayor of Mijas is still uncertain this weekend, despite council chambers across Spain having to vote on who will run them for the next four years. Tomorrow (Saturday) mayors should be in place. Where no majority has been
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EUGENIO CABEZAS
Current mayor of Nerja, Rosa Arrabal (PSOE), and José Alberto Armijo, who served as mayor under the Partido Popular from 1995 until 2015, are to give evidence in the ongoing 'Operación Vastum' case which is investigating possible offences in relation
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ANTONIO M. ROMERO
...citizens. The mutual hatred, a word they have used themselves, between the former mayors of Mijas, Ángel Nozal (PP) and Juan Carlos Maldonado (Ciudadanos) came out at last Friday's session to swear in the new council. Nozal actively ignored his party's
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JAVIER RECIO
Last Sunday's general election marked a turning point in national and most probably local politics. The overwhelming victory of the Socialist PSOE in the province of Malaga is bound to have made the numerous Partido Popular mayors uncomfortable and ... significant examples of Marbella and Estepona, where the PP mayors Ángeles Muñoz and José María García Urbano have more reason now to fear for their jobs. The Partido Popular hasn't even won in its talisman stronghold Fuengirola, where the PP normally
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Local mayors from inland Malaga province have been leading sit-ins and road blockages this week in protest at what they say is the slow and inadequate response by authorities with aid for the heavy flood damage in the area. The municipalities of ... November. Despite the announcement by the Junta, the mayors said they would continue protesting. Mayors of Teba and Campillos, Cristóbal Corral and Paco Guerrero, both of the Izquierda Unida party, said it was "insufficient" and that they would continue ... protesting, including a rally in Madrid on Friday. "We haven't been through a flood," said the mayor of Campillos, "We've been through a tragedy." "Political motives" Susana Díaz urged the mayors this week to stop "pouring oil on the fire" and the
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Ivan Gelibter
The relationship between the mayor of Mijas, Juan Carlos Maldonado, and the mayor of Fuengirola, Ana Mula, is not going through its best period. Despite the geographic closeness of the two municipalities, especially where the Mijas area of Las Laguna
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Ivan Gelibter
There will be a new connection between Benalmádena and Torremolinos before too long. The mayors of the two municipalities signed an agreement at a press conference earlier this week to build a bridge which will link the adjoining areas of La Leala ... carried out, the cost and the time it will take to connect the northern part of the two municipalities. The mayors said they had made the decision to build the bridge in response to the fact that people in La Leala and El Pinillo have been calling for a ... It will also help to reduce traffic on the other connecting roads, where there are often delays, and will "develop synergies" between the two municipalities. This will be positive for them both, and will boost their local economies, both mayors said.