I like to imagine what happened at City Hall as if it were part of the masterful “Pulp Fiction.” The mayor, José María Bellido, called the cell phone of Miguel Ángel Torrico, his companion of a thousand battles and a seasoned city councilor, and said, “We have a problem.” He replied, “I’m 30 minutes from Capitulares. I’ll be there in ten hours.” Because Torrico is the Mr. Lobo of local politics. He was born to fix failures. The municipal government had presented some dysfunctions: the direct error of Las Cruces—with Festejos councilor Julián Urbano saying that nothing was happening here and the councilor disavowing him shortly after; the absurdity of Alfaros – a contractual reform process had to be canceled because no one had previously consulted Movilidad and Aucorsa in the months in which it was initially proposed to eliminate it – or the difficulties of the Consistory in streamlining its management, a chronic problem in which it has been improved but not enough. This Tuesday, the first mayor confirmed with facts that his experience in June 2023, upon his re-election, of diluting the presidency and placing at its head said Urbano, a new face on the PP list and in the City Hall. , it went badly. And he recovered Torrico for the position, who held the aforementioned councilor position in the 2011/2015 and 2019/2023 terms. It is the plumbing department and it is fundamental. You have to make internal coordination as fluid as possible and you have to make sure that, when a blocked problem reaches that point, it is unblocked as quickly as possible. Torrico knows the City Council like the back of his hand and it is not easy: we are talking about an Administration with a budget of 559 million in 2024. In this government crisis, he is the winner. The most affected are Urbano, who also loses European funds – he needs profound improvements in fundraising and agility in his spending – and Daniel García-Ibarrola, another new face on the PP’s 2023 list. The latter leaves Tourism after experiencing conflicts over positions of trust, accumulating some discomfort in the sector or the spectacle of the Alcazar – a classic among elected officials in the sector – melting. Marián Aguilar takes office, until now withdrawn in sport.
