Former Valencia mayor Joan Ribó plans to leave his position as a councilor on the city council next month. Ribó pledged in the May 28 election campaign to finish his term in office by 2027, regardless of whether he remained mayor or remained in opposition, which has happened. However, as the SER has made progress, the current mayor of Compromís believes that it is time to take a step back and let the new management, led by Papi Robles, work with the aim of maintaining the mayoralty of Valencia within four years to win back.
Next week he plans to call a meeting of the Compromís municipal group to communicate this decision to his party colleagues before presenting the resignation of his municipal council, which will be formalized at the next regular municipal plenary session.
Ribó, 76 years old, began his career in politics in 1995 in the ranks of Izquierda Unida. In 2007 he returned to teaching for three years and, after a crisis in his party, gave up education and politics until Compromís appointed him candidate for mayor of Valencia in 2011, a position he held after the 2015 elections. Thanks to a pact between Compromís, the PSPV and Podemos that ended the popular Rita Barberá's 24-year term as mayor.
Now Ribó will leave the council, which has been governed by PP and Vox since last May. Next week he wants to call a meeting of the municipal group to communicate this decision to his party colleagues before submitting his resignation from his minutes. Last November, the city council said goodbye as speaker and reiterated that he would “certainly remain in office for a while.” “How long, I haven’t thought about it,” he said.
Since then, Papi Robles, number two in the municipal group, took the reins and was a witness after Ribó himself renounced his exclusive involvement in this new mandate. “I’m not old, not in the sense of little, but in the sense of too much,” he said.
Once Joan Ribó resigns from his position as councilor, he will be replaced by Luisa Notario, who was next on the Compromí list for the local elections.
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