This Saturday, June 15, the Constitutive Session of the Municipal Corporation was held in the Plenary Hall of the A Pobra do Brollón Town Hall.
After the constitution of the age table, the councilors voted or promised their positions: Fernando Parada Vila of the PP; Tamara Rodríguez of the PSOE; José Luis Maceda Vilariño; Manuel González Moreira; Ricardo Rodicio González; Josefa Rodríguez Rodríguez; Mónica Rodríguez Vázquez and Óscar Rivera López of the BNG and Javier Quiroga Castro of the PSOE. The mayor was subsequently elected by show of hands, obtaining 6 votes for the candidate of the BNG and mayor of the City Council of A Pobra do Brollón in the last 3 terms, Xosé Lois Maceda Vilariño, who after promising the position as mayor, received the baton of command of the City Council.
The re-elected mayor thanked the residents for their presence in this session and highlighted that, as his colleague Ricardo had said before entering the session, power emanates from the people and not from a command baton, but in this case the mayor wanted to pay tribute to the resident of O Pino who did it and who has since passed away. Jose Lois Maceda He then began by thanking the residents for their trust, “The trust of the residents is revalidated and increases over time, which makes us understand that the project started ten years ago is the right one and that we are on the right track. I think that in these 12 years we have all gotten to know each other. This government has been characterized by its closeness to the citizens, the enthusiasm we have shown and the unity and effort it has made to make Pobra a more pleasant place.".
We prioritize social policy, in this last mandate we dedicated more than 30% to social policy and created 20 jobs in the social policy sector, a sector that we consider strategic in the government option. We have also been committed in recent years to the promotion of our culture and our heritage, because we are part of the Winter Camino, we are on the horizon of Xacobeo 2021, we are also waiting for the declaration of the Ribeira Sacra as a World Heritage Site and we are the gateway to the Courel. We cannot waste this opportunity that we have to develop our municipality in terms of tourism.
We have not forgotten these years the agricultural, livestock, viticultural and forestry sectors, improving infrastructures. For example, in the livestock sector we lowered the IBI, in the viticultural sector we are in Vilachá with the Adegas da Memoria project. These four years are going to be decisive for the Municipality of A Pobra do Brollón, we can talk about a before and after.
We have to finalize the residence project, we have to finalize that the Civil Guard barracks will end up becoming a hostel; and for the teachers' homes we have presented the project to create 6 social housing units. We are going to work on the school building, in the part that corresponds to the city council. We are going to fix Rúa da Peza, we have the Four Knights hiking route. We have projects that we are going to immediately start and continue to promote tourism as a factor of economic development for A Pobra do Brollón.
These 4 years will be exciting and our commitment is to make our projects a reality. To do this, we hope to have the collaboration of the opposition, to improve the quality of life in the City Council. We also have the support of the residents because without them it would not be possible to develop these projects.
For me it is an honor to be mayor of the City Council where I live and where I have family, where I have worked, I have friends,… The best thing that can happen to a politician is to feel the support of the people and after these elections I did feel it. I feel a much greater burden of responsibility because we have more support and also more fear and respect not to let down the people who have placed their trust in us.
Our intention is to do the best we can for A Pobra do Brollón and for all the residents. We do not want to fall into complacency, but we must continue working with the same desire as always, with humility and with the same dedication and commitment to make the projects concrete. The doors of my office will remain open to everyone. I hope that the journey of all of us with the members of the opposition will be fruitful for the City Council. We hope for your support and we will also attend to your proposals. Let's do our best to turn A Pobra do Brollón into an example of quality of life. I hope not to disappoint you.”
A PSOE spokesperson, Tamara Rodríguez, He highlighted, “We will continue with our public service occupation. We will make a serious opposition, supporting the projects that we consider positive for everyone and we will be aware that all projects are carried out in a transparent manner, serving all residents equally; and we will continue to ask for answers to the doubts that residents convey to us.”
Fromthe PP, the spokesperson, Fernando Parada He pointed out: “We will continue working as we have until now; criticizing what needs to be criticized and supporting what needs to be supported, as we have already done with this government when it did not have an absolute majority, when there were times when we supported the BNG, and we have no problem doing so again if the projects seem interesting to us for A Pobra do Brollón.”.
