Although last night´s full Town Hall meeting was probably the tensest, the most difficult, the most uncomfortable and the longest in the current legislature it seems the political parties were able to agree on certain matters.
The meeting actually lasted until 12 midnight but the main opposition party, the PP, walked out on block at the beginning of the “Questions session” as a protest against seven of their motions being excluded from the agenda.
However, before the main political parties began to attempt to shout each other down in a furious row over the excluded motions all three parties agreed on two matters of significant interest to the residents of Calasparra: the Plaza de la Corredera and the local railway station.
A motion put forward by the United Left and Green Party to pedestrianize the Plaza de la Corredera will be put out for public consultation after all three parties agreed in principle. If the majority of residents agree the plan to pedestrianize the area will go ahead.
All three parties also supported a PSOE motion to maintain pressure on the appropriate authorities to maintain Calasparra Railway Station open.
However, the consensus ended there with the opposition parties disagreeing with most of the PSOE motions and the PSOE disagreeing with most of the opposition motions. The meeting was bad tempered at times and at others was completely chaotic with representatives refusing to listen to each other and shouting each other down. As neither of the main political parties have a majority they must count on the casting vote of the United Left and Green Parties, however, there is a political stalemate when the United Left decided to abstain.
As neither of the two main parties were able to agree on anything virtually nothing else was decided at the meeting.
The sessions are televised live on the two local television stations.
