Almuñécar has 7,000 non-Spanish residents who’re eligible to vote within the upcoming municipal elections, which is why the deadline has been prolonged to the sixteenth of this month.

The deadline in query marks the tip of the interval that you could get your identify down on the electoral register (censo electoral). As defined earlier than, simply since you are apadronado doesn’t imply you’re on that checklist – one ought to robotically put you on the opposite however many City Halls ‘overlook’ this.

However now with practically 7,000 foreigners wandering round (6,841 to be exact) in a city with a inhabitants of 26,000, kind of, it is a giant chunk of votes to be harvested, so the Mayor of Almuñécar, Juan José Ruiz Joya, has determined to increase the deadline.

On a distinct however associated word, you’ll have seen that half the city is being dug up, repaved and spit-&-polished – Almuñécar is way from being alone on this. When touchdown a councillor’s job can earn a candidate 4,000 euros a month plus bills over the next 4 years… your vote is essential.

The Regulation (LOREG) states in Artwork.50.3 “durante el periodo electoral queda prohibido realizar cualquier acto de inauguración de obras o servicios públicos o proyectos de éstos, cualquiera que sea la denominación utilizada, sin perjuicio de que dichas obras o servicios puedan entrar en funcionamiento en dicho periodo” (Through the electoral interval, it’s prohibited to hold out any act of inauguration of public works or companies or their initiatives, whichever class used, with out prejudice to the truth that stated works or companies could come into operation throughout stated interval.)

In different phrases, public works can conclude in the course of the election interval, however there might be no inauguration ceremony. Earlier than the regulation got here out, politicians delayed or rushed public works in order that they may very well be concluded simply earlier than election day to spice up their possibilities of being voted in.

So, Women and Purchasing-Trolley Pilots, you are actually a politicians greatest buddy till the twenty ninth of Could (the day after voting) when you may be ignored for the next 4 years!

(Information: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)