The motion of censure against the mayor of Cartagena, Noelia Arroyo (PP), has not gone ahead. The joint proposal of the local Citizen Movement party (MC) and PSOE, supported by Sí Cartagena and two former Vox councillors, already had little sign of succeeding after the latter two dropped out of the initiative which, however, was debated and voted on this Tuesday. But the real debate has not been in the motion itself, but in the legality or otherwise of holding the plenary session. For more than two hours, PP and MC have clashed when interpreting a regulation that, for the secretary of the plenary session, left no room for doubt: the session had to be suspended as it did not meet the legal requirements.
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