Juan Simón Lasanta is the new mayor of Laguna de Cameros. For La Rioja, he maintains the Mayor’s Office and the absolute majority after the voluntary resignation of the previous councilor, Javier Ruiz-Clavijo, who left office, although he maintains his record as councilor, after having starred in a … incident with some young women from the town whom he rebuked at dawn during the Santo Domingo de Silos festivities held in May.
Juan Simón Lasanta obtained three votes, those of the PLRi councilors, compared to the two that Cándido González, of the PSOE, added, who will continue in the opposition. The new municipal secretary, Enrique San Román, justified the two-day delay in holding the investiture session of the new mayor due to the resignation of his predecessor, who left office after the mayor’s resignation.
After the plenary session, María José González, justice of the peace of Laguna, took the floor to appeal to the entire municipal Corporation. “This is no game. Now I wear it, now I don’t. Now I’m angry and I’m going after you. Now they come against me. Now I’m tired… I ask you to reflect and to work for and for Laguna,” María José González stated more than in a tone of reproach, rather than a plea. «Laguna has always been a reference in the Cameros, it has been a united, happy and, above all, very generous town. Those around us envied us. But I don’t know why, because of nonsense, because of stubbornness, because of bosses, because of dictators, Laguna has lost all its joy and, unfortunately, today it is a sad and divided town,” said González.
“We are making Laguna the laughingstock of the valley and it is time to stop,” says PSOE councilor Fernando Bezares.
Everyone, councilors and spectators, listened to the justice of the peace attentively and, when she finished, she was applauded for her short but clear speech. «I only ask that you be a team, work together and forget the political color that represents you. Please, let’s be serious and live as a united people,” González concluded. To put the cherry on top of his words, Fernando Bezares, socialist councilor, spoke, warning that the only interest of his group “is to work for Laguna, we are here to help with whatever is needed” and extended his hand to the government team. “We are making Laguna the laughingstock of the valley and it is time to stop,” Bezares said. A man, among the audience, also intervened: “I am possibly the oldest of those here and in my life I have seen the town as unruly as it is now.”
To finish, the new mayor took the floor, the fourth in less than three years of the town of Alto Leza after the resignations of Martín Íñiguez and Javier Ruiz-Clavijo and the temporary passage of Roberto Martínez, deputy mayor who served as municipal councilor in functions for two weeks. «They have not chosen us because we are intelligent or handsome but because of what happened ten years ago. So that shit doesn’t come back,” declared Juan Simón Lasanta.
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