Overview
- The PP group in Gondomar saw two municipal councillors, José Antonio Rodríguez González and Fátima Granja Paz, and the Morgadáns ELM vocal, Juan Carlos Alonso Esmerode, present formal resignations, a development reported Wednesday that removes three sitting party representatives from the council group.
- In their written notices the officials cited "personal reasons," but party sources and local reporting say the departures respond to long-running disagreements over decisions taken without group consensus under spokesperson Paula Bouzós, and the three left their actas at the party's disposal to avoid becoming non-attached members.
- The party must now fill the vacancies from its 2023 electoral list, though the next-in-line, María José Alonso Esmerode, is the resigning vocal's sister and is expected to decline, complicating succession and delaying the swearing-in of replacements.
- Paula Bouzós publicly rejected the notion of a split the day after the resignations and presented two provisional replacements—José Antonio Camesella and María Dolores González—saying they will take their seats once the electoral board issues credentials.
- The resignations add to earlier defections, notably Ángel Pérez Durán in August 2024 who kept his seat as a non-attached councillor and at times sided with the PSOE, a pattern that risks further eroding the PP's ability to influence council votes and shapes the party's position ahead of the May 2027 municipal election.