Vicent Grimalt: "We have obtained a very good result and with the possibility of governing as up to now, with progressive parties"
Until the last minute, the socialist candidate, Vicent Grimalt, has been pending the scrutiny to know his result in Dénia. He was close to 10 councilors, disputing it with the PP, but the count has finally concluded and it could not be. The PSPV has won again, but leaving three representatives on the way.
The absolute majority has ended, something that the polls already pointed to and that has been confirmed. However, the socialist candidacy is still strong in Dénia with Grimalt at the helm. The PSPV obtains its second best historical result, only surpassed by the last legislature of the absolute majority. In total there have been 6832 votes, some 2000 more than the popular ones, which have been second force this time.
Grimalt, after knowing that 100% had already been scrutinized, has attended the media to make the first statements after winning the elections. "At the local level we have obtained a very good result and with the possibility of governing as we have done so far, except with an absolute majority, which has been with progressive parties." The socialist candidate has openly reached out to Compromís, his former government partner, to whom he has asked for responsibility "for the good of the city of Dénia." "I hope that Compromís is capable of recognizing the social, cultural, educational policies, the PGE and everything that has been done, and we govern," he pointed out.
However, Grimalt assumed that it was early to talk about pacts, "but that they would work along that line." "I suppose, I hope, that Compromís does not agree with the Popular Party to throw us out, but the rules of the game are what they are," he declared.
Regarding the movement of participants in the City Hall, he has not hidden his indignation at the emergence of "populist parties that often do not respect the rules of democracy," he admitted, referring to the councilor that Vox has achieved in Dénia.
Sadness for the regional results
Despite the satisfaction with the good result obtained in the city, Vicent Grimalt has shown himself concerned and hurt by the result of his match in the main capitals and the Generalitat. "That the Generalitat has changed its sign means that the reversal of public health is possibly in danger, something that worries one hundred percent of the population of this region," he predicted, and he did not hide his fear with what this new situation may entail. Govern. «What is signed is signed, and I hope that Mr. Mazón in the Generalitat as President does not do what he has done in the Provincial Council, which has been to disparage 90% of this region. If he wants to be the president of all and all, he will have to respect us ».
It has also been wet with what has happened in the region, especially the unexpected turn of Xàbia. «I, to be honest, am not a sociologist or a political scientist, but I think it must be very difficult to understand that a town like Xàbia, which had been governing the Socialist Party for four legislatures with Chulvi, after two absolute majorities, has now lost ».