Power Struggles Erupt in Orihuela: Vox Pressures Mayor Vegara Over Church Subsidies

Gas, electricity, water and sewer rates have become too expensive.

If it was already surreal for Vox’s municipal group to exercise self-opposition to approve an increase in municipal subsidies to the Church so that its government partner, the PP, would take some notice of it, the more it has been that the PSOE has lent it its votes to approve it. It has happened at the ordinary plenary session of April of the City of Orihuela.

Power Struggles Erupt in Orihuela: Vox Pressures Mayor Vegara Over Church Subsidies

Tensions have reignited in Orihuela’s local government as Vox reasserts its demands for increased public subsidies to the Catholic Church—thrusting Mayor Pepe Vegara (Partido Popular) into a precarious political position. Although Vox remains the junior partner in the coalition, its support is crucial to Vegara’s continued leadership, and it’s now leveraging that power openly. The party has reintroduced a controversial motion to allocate €165,00…