Spain like many European countries uses the D'Hondt voting system. If any party receives less than 5% of the total votes cast then their votes are not taken into account and are discarded. In Orihuela's 2007 local elections Claro received 800 votes w...

C.L.A.R.O. has presented its list of candidates for the forthcoming local elections in Orihuela on 24 May. There will be 13 parties competing for the votes of the people living in Orihuela, city and coast, more than in any other municipality in the...

With the municipal elections getting closer by the day, now just 10 months away, the political situation in Orihuela is still one of bitter contrast. From numerous politicians facing criminal charges, others being ousted and even the mayor facing attem...

The trial against one of the most famous businessmen in Orihuela, Ángel Fenoll, along with 17 other people including a former Albatera PP councillor Francisco Javier Bru, for offenses against the Treasury and forgery of commercial documents bega...

Tuesday sees perhaps one of the most famous businessmen in Orihuela, Ángel Fenoll, stand trial in court number 3 of Orihuela, along with 17 other people, accused of falsifying accounts between 2002 and 2004, with the sole aim of avoiding tax. T...

The former mayor of Orihuela, Mónica Lorente, has lost a pre-trial appeal which she hoped would have avoided criminal charges for alleged irregularities in the award of a contract relating to building work at a plaza in the town of El Escorratel...

Whereas in Orihuela the household waste disposal service in now a cost-saving municipalised function, a factor that the Partido Popular and CLR are keen to change to privatise once again, in neighbouring Torrevieja, where the service is privatised, the...

The courts in Elche have suspended the preliminary hearing scheduled for Thursday the 6th of February, where the complaint filed by the PP and CLR regarding the blocking of a censure motion in the Orihuela town hall was to be heard. The courts have no...

The Councillor for Markets in Orihuela, Manuel Gallud from the Los Verdes, has been consulting with his legal team with a view to take action for slander against the CLR spokesman Pedro Mancebo. According to Gallud, Mancebo claims that the decision to...

The motion of censure which would have brought about the departure of the present government and the arrival of a Popular Party – Centro Liberal Renovador (CLR) government was NOT put to the vote at the special plenary meeting of the Council on 3...

For the second time in this administration, the Partido Popular of Orihuela have failed in raising a censure motion that could have resulted in a vote of no confidence and the overthrowing of the bipartite government team of Orihuela. Through the agre...

After 2 years battling in opposition, trying everything possible to return, from moves to discredit and plans to block salaries, the Partido Popular are set to return to govern following a pact with yet another arch enemy, the CLR. Now, brushing aside...