ELECTION fever has started to take hold in Calvia with six months to go before polling day. Mayor Carlos Delgado is allegedly not standing for re-election and the ruling Partido Popular is searching for a candidate to stand for Mayor.
The socialists have already announced their candidate, school teacher Alfonso Rodríguez and also Toni Rami (who went alongside Mayor Delgado for many years) is standing as an independent for the new party, Transparency for Calvia. All parties will be campaigning for the so-called foreign vote, because 40 percent of the population in Calvia is non-Spanish. Transparency for Calvia will be fielding non-Spanish candidates and so will the Partido Popular and the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE). My gut feeling is that the Partido Popular will be returned to power in Calvia because the opinion polls point to a landslide victory for the centre-right party across Majorca. However, Calvia has always rather bucked the political trend with the socialists being in power for many years while the Partido Popular run the Balearics. It is obviously going to be an interesting campaign and the first shots in the long campaign have already been fired.
Roll on May and let's get it over with!
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