Welcome to the
The ELECTION SPECIAL EDITION
of the Jávea Grapevine Highlights Magazine
The main May edition of the magazine online with over 100 pages of news, info, event
reports, embedded videos & photos is online at www.javeagrapevine.com as normal.
You will also find this Special Election Highlights supplement online.
We have had a lot of interest from some of Jávea’s political parties in participating in this issue of Javea
Grapevine. Looking at the different policies and manifestos has been very interesting. It is a lot of info to
cram into a single magazine - so where possible we have included links to websites and in the online
edition, you will also find the various videos that have been made for this election. Some parties have
not been able send me articles in time for this edition, so I have simply added the basic information that I
hold for them. As the UK elections demonstrated, having gone to the trouble of registering, it is important
to actually go and vote.
If you haven’t voted in Jávea or Spain before, it isn’t as frightening as it first appears. You will see that
each party has issued a list of candidates - to vote, all you need to do is select the list that you want to
support and pop it in the envelope provided at the voting desk (you will find all the lists in the private voting booth). There is a full explanation of how the Campaign is run and how to vote, later in the magazine.
As you will see over the next few pages, the Parties have published full lists of candidates - your vote
is allocated to the party as a whole. The more votes a party receives, the more seats they will be able to
fill on the Council. The number of votes a party receives decides how many of their party will represent
us as Councillors - prioritised in the order that Candidates appear on the lists (which is decided before
the election by that Party). This means if a party gets X number of seats, then their top X candidates are
elected. Simples! The order of the parties in this issue is based solely on their current roles in the current
administration - So Mayor’s party, Deputy Mayor’s Party - etc etc etc
Gaile M Griffin Peers
[email protected]
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