Constanza Sánchez
The latest Plenary Session of the Alcalá de Henares Corporation witnessed a curious protest. Six people dressed as shrimp and prawns, self-proclaimed as the ‘Seafood Committee,’ protested in this manner against what they consider an excessive number of municipal union delegates.
At that moment, representatives of the Alcalá City Council staff were also protesting, demanding an increase in personnel in certain services.
This Wednesday, the opposition in the Alcalá City Council has requested a repeat of the plenary session where they intended for the city’s mayor, Judith Piquet, to apologize after calling the municipal workers who were protesting in front of City Hall a few weeks ago a «mob,» demanding more hiring and service improvements.
Protesters dressed as shrimp and prawns in Alcalá’s Plenary Session
«COMEGAMBAS»
The PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) denounced in a statement that Piquet «tolerated insults and disparagements like ‘you don’t do any work,’ ‘lazy,’ or ‘shrimp eater‘ directed at all municipal staff.»
Therefore, the socialists will demand from the mayor in the coming days the holding of a new Extraordinary Plenary Session for «the appropriate explanations to be given and responsibilities to be assumed by the PP and Vox government team.»
The PP (People’s Party) have criticized the spokesman of the PSOE in Alcalá, Javier Rodríguez Palacios, whom they defined as «a politician incapable of debating, who hides behind formalities when he doesn’t like the substance, and who believes that the plenary hall is his personal domain where only those who applaud him belong.»
From their point of view, the national socialist deputy has found in the extraordinary plenary sessions «a way to inflate his paycheck.»
«Since he gets paid for each session, his new hobby is to convene empty plenary sessions, without useful content for the residents, just to have a political platform and increase his salary at the expense of the citizens of Alcalá,» they concluded.
