ORIHUELA COSTA STREET NAMES & HOUSE NUMBERS UPDATE

For 5 years since 2003 Los Verdes of Orihuela have denounced the discrimination that exists within the Orihuela Municipality in respect of the entry on the electoral register of foreign Residents within Orihuela Costa.

Throughout this period of time the Los Verdes municipal party has put forward various initiatives in the Orihuela Town Council such as questions and motions during the meetings of the Pleno, to the I.N.E. (National Institute of Statistics), and before the Committee of Petitions by MEP of the Green Party, David Hammerstein, highlighting the policy of the PP that it considers the foreign Residents as second class citizens.

“Given that lack of identification of houses and public roads causes a serious problem in mail delivery to residents in them, and that as much, the INE as the Central Board of Elections required this Town Council to attack the necessary actions, so that residents of Orihuela Costa normally receive their mail and, specifically, the notifications sent by the INE to the European Residents to exercise their right to vote, and considering that before the forthcoming European elections, the INE will resend by mail to the European residents the option to vote, and that all that is proposed is dealt with as a matter of urgency.”
(Translation of quote made by the ruling PP of the Orihuela Town Council in document 2.9.- Contratacion - 185/235/08)

Los Verdes of Orihuela announce that the Residents in Orihuela Costa should see, in a short period of time, all the streets within the Orihuela Costa area of the Orihuela Municipality having street name signs, as this was approved in a recent meeting of the Government of Orihuela, and at the same time the official registered number, that will agree with the padron register, will be put on individual houses to avoid future problems to the Residents.

Amongst other measures the post code will change so that 03189 relates exclusively to the whole of Orihuela Costa, and this will include Dehesa de Campoamor.

At this moment it is solely a lack of the actual act of placing the names in the streets and the numbers on the properties, and all this work has to be completed, in accordance with the order of the European Parliament, before the 15th September of this year, 2008.

Therefore Los Verdes ask the Residents to check that the number put on their house corresponds with that on the padron register and that if the work is not completed by the 15th September 2008, in accordance with the mandate of the European Parliament, that they inform Los Verdes, with the objective that a public denouncement can be made in respect of this matter. To do this Residents can either email to losverdesorihuela@yahoo.es , or contact one of the members of the Los Verdes Working Group in Orihuela Costa at the fortnightly surgery, or by telephone on 965319660 (English) or 965328190 (Multilingual).