He has not achieved the comfortable absolute majority of Toni Pérez in Benidorm or Eduardo Dolón in Torrevieja, but the 14 councilors obtained by the candidacy he heads will allow Luis Barcala to govern alone. The sum of PSPV (8), Compromís (2) and Eu-Podem (1) is far from being able to constitute an alternative to the popular ones in the investiture, and leaves little room for Vox to condition Barcala, despite the fact that the formation of far-right doubles its representation.
However, Barcala will have to negotiate to approve the municipal budgets, something that he has not achieved with those of 2023 despite also having 14 councilors on his side, although five of the members of his government team belonged to Ciudadanos, now disappeared from the plenary session. .
More complex is the situation of Pablo Ruz, PP candidate in Elx, who already last night contacted the head of the Vox list, Aurora Rodil, whose votes he needs to be invested as mayor, since the PSPV maintains the most voted list: Carlos González's candidacy has 12 councillors, the PP has 11, Vox 3 and Compromis 1.
The PP will maintain the comfortable absolute majority of Toni Pérez in Benidorm, who sounds like the future president of the Provincial Council (in the campaign he assured that he would be compatible with the mayoralty), although Ana Serna, current vice president and mayor of Albatera, also appears in the pools. Just like Eduardo Dolón, who is also supported by his splendid results in Torrevieja.
The PP would add 17 provincial deputies, recovering a solo majority that it lost in 2015 with the irruption of Ciudadanos, for 13 of the PP, Vox would debut in the institution with a representative for L'Alacantí while Compromís loses the one it had.
