The president of the Junta and the PP of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, has started the twelfth day of the campaign in the Leonese town of Ponferrada, where he has participated in an act to cover and support the popular candidate in the capital of the region from El Bierzo, Marco Moral, who faces the challenge of recovering this town hall, once a stronghold of the PP, which in the last two legislatures has been in the hands of the left.
During his speech, Mañueco insisted on the importance of these “national key” municipal elections that will serve to take the first step to evict Sánchez from La Moncloa in the general elections in December. To this end, he called for concentrating the vote in the PP and thus being able to articulate a “great moderate majority” around the ‘popular’ acronym.
“Each vote is crucial”, pointed out the popular leader, while appealing to the useful vote and fleeing from those options “that have no chance”. “Those of us who want change have to be practical,” he said bluntly, while praising Morala and his candidacy. “He is the mayor that Ponferrada needs and he is making a face for it,” he said, while holding out his hand. hand to work in the future together in its objective of projecting Ponferrada into the future hand in hand with companies that fill the industrial estates and that once again make this region the locomotive of job and wealth creation.
socialism the future
Morala, for his part, highlighted that his priority for the city of Ponferradina is to create employment, but stable and quality employment, to encourage the establishment of companies and entrepreneurship, which will allow the population to increase as well as prevent young people from to leave Ponferrada.
“They can choose between socialism or the future, and I choose the future,” he stated forcefully. For this, he promised to promote greater economic activity in addition to a tax reform that helps families and companies, as well as to improve urban transport and mobility in the capital of Berciana if he becomes mayor. And he outlined some of his proposals to recover the Municipal Institute for Training and Employment (Imfe) and to redesign the low emission zone (ZBE) and implement it in the old town.
In the claims section, Morala asked Mañueco for the support of the Junta to promote the intermodal logistics platform project in the Cylog, as well as to carry out two new urban regeneration areas (ARU) in the neighborhoods of Flores del Sil and Cuatrovientos, as well as in the upper area of the city. “President, I’m counting on you to give Bierzo what is owed to him,” he concluded.
Lastly, the party’s provincial president, Esther Muñoz, also participated in this campaign event, who asked those from Ponferrada who do not want a socialist mayor to vote for Morala, criticized the role of the socialist ministers “who come to offer and then they do absolutely nothing” and assured that they are getting out of socialism and that they will achieve it soon.
