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Alcanar Mayor Joan Roig Resigns After Repeated Flood Emergencies as ERC Backs Marc Chavalera

He cites exhaustion from years of emergency flood response.

Overview

  • Roig revealed his decision on La Sexta’s Salvados after a new cycle of torrential rains, with the broadcast briefly interrupted by an ES-Alert alarm.
  • In a public letter, he described managing five DANAs in seven years as a workload that exceeded the limits of the office.
  • He warned that climate change is intensifying local risk and pointed to decades of overbuilding that eliminated natural drainage.
  • ERC said it will propose Economy and Finance councillor Marc Chavalera to take over as mayor, without setting a date for the handover.
  • The ERC–PSC coalition continues running the municipality during the transition, while Roig moves to an interim secondary-school teaching post in the Barcelona area.