For UPyD spokesman in the city of Murcia, the election reform proposed for municipalities are governed by those who obtain 30 or 40 percent of the vote "is a true chieftain", while recalling that the formation magenta already contained in its framework program for regional and municipal elections of 2011 the direct election of aldermen in two-round elections
Ruben Juan Serna, spokeswoman for Progress and Democracy Union in the city of Murcia, says the People's Party proposal for direct election of mayors "is a desperate measure to try to keep mayors".
Thus, the spokesman for the formation magenta believes this is due to "the outcome of the European elections has put them ahead a rather negative and pessimistic horizon."
To Serna, this proposed electoral reform that municipalities are governed by those who obtain 30 or 40 percent of the vote "is a true chieftain", while recalling that UPyD already contained in its framework program for regional and municipal elections of 2011 the direct election of aldermen in two-round elections.
"If no candidate exceeded 50 percent of the vote, could be carried out a second round between the two leading candidates to elect the mayor, avoiding pasteleos form of offices and everything would be much more transparent," the mayor .
"This is something very different from the local power delivered directly to the most voted," said Serna, who also advocates a reform of the Law on Local Government and the Electoral Act much deeper "than mere cosmetic changes" that the Government of Mariano Rajoy is holding.
UPyD considered a proposal for direct election of the mayor "to be an instrument of real democratic regeneration", along with a hypothetical second round, term limits and incompatibilities not allowed to combine the post of mayor should be established with national or regional deputy, among other issues.
Source: UPyD Murcia