He has ruled the municipality of Beade (Ourense) since 1974 He will head the PP checklist once more within the municipal elections He is the longest-serving mayor in Galicia and the oldest in Spain
Senén Pousa, mayor of the municipality of Beade (Ourense), will run once more within the municipal elections to be held in May 2023. At 83 years previous and the oldest mayor in Spain, the councilor has introduced that he’ll attempt to revalidate the place which he has held for nearly 50 years.
The councilor of this Ourense municipality, with 379 inhabitants, will as soon as once more head the checklist of the Popular Party (PP) within the municipality. “We are going to win once more by an absolute majority,” Pousa predicted.
Pousa was mayor throughout the Franco dictatorship. He governs Beade since 1974 and is, since 2015, the one lively pre-constitutional mayor in Galicia.
Furthermore, within the 12 months 2020, he additionally turned the longest-serving mayor locally. He did so after the resignation of Adolfo Campos, councilor of Dozón (Pontevedra), additionally from the PP and who died that very same 12 months on the age of 86.
Admirer of Francisco Franco
Senén Pousa is a controversial mayor. He confesses to being an admirer of General Francisco Franco and for years he was answerable for celebrating a funeral mass in reminiscence of the dictator each November 20.
In 2019, the Ministry of Justice even requested him to show that there was no image of exaltation of Franco within the municipality, asking him to take away it if there was one. Currently, the road the place the city corridor is positioned is named Rúa Caudillo.
If he renews the mayoralty, Pousa would attain half a century in workplace. He has managed to win with an absolute majority in each one of many democratic elections held since 1979.
In 2023 he’ll as soon as once more be accompanied within the candidacy by his granddaughter, Susana Fernández Pousa, who has served as deputy mayor because the earlier time period. It appears that the pure aid will probably be her. He already needed to briefly cede the baton to him this legislature for well being causes.
In May 2023, when the elections are held, Pousa will have already got turned 84, since her birthday is in March.