The progressive loss of confidence of the Municipal Socialist Group of El Verger (Alicante) in the mayor, Ximo Coll, expelled from the PSPV for having skipped the vaccination shift, has led to a change in the government team. Coll has presented his resignation, which will become effective next Monday, and will be replaced by the second deputy mayor, Juan Chover, according to a statement sent by the municipal group.
In this way, the local PSPV group intends to regain lost “stability”, above all, after the judicial investigation in which a Dénia judge included Coll and his wife, Carolina Vives, mayor of Els Poblets, as alleged perpetrators of a crime of improper passive bribery for being vaccinated against covid ahead of time, a decision for which both were filed and expelled from militancy. The situation, “aggravated in recent months,” point out the socialists from Verger, forced the holding of two extraordinary assemblies “to redirect the situation and facilitate the governability of the people.”
The initial idea was a simple change of cards. All the councilmen maintained their delegations and only Chover expanded his functions by assuming the Mayor’s Office. However, Coll, a plumber by profession, has preferred to “renounce the act of councilor so as not to interfere” in the work of his former colleagues, a decision that the municipal group qualifies as an act of “generosity”. The municipal corporation remains as it resulted from the last elections, held in 2019. The Socialists maintain their five councilors and govern in a minority. Compromís has three mayors, the same as the Popular Party.
Meanwhile, the investigation against Coll and Vives for getting vaccinated by skipping the protocols established by the central government is still awaiting sentencing. In their statement before the Dénia judge, last November, both insisted that from the El Verger health center they were offered a few leftover doses and were inoculated together with five Local Police officers. The Prosecutor’s Office attributes to them the alleged crime of improper passive bribery for taking advantage of their public positions to advance their immunization without being part of any risk or priority group.
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