Overview
- The PP provincial board in Roquetas de Mar ratified Ramón Fernández-Pacheco as provincial president and named Francisco González Bellido as secretary general.
- José Antonio García Alcaína, mayor of María and current provincial sports deputy, has been put forward to preside the Diputación de Almería with the PP’s absolute majority.
- Two new provincial deputies, Lorena del Mar Nieto and María Jesús Herrada, will take the seats vacated by Javier Aureliano García and Fernando Giménez.
- García and Giménez resigned their institutional and party posts after UCO detentions in a kickbacks investigation tied to public works contracts.
- PP leaders pledged transparency and access to files, while opposition parties highlighted unanswered questions and pointed to UCO indications reaching back to 2016, with the party seeking to contain damage ahead of regional elections.