Expat appointed "Headman" of Mil Palmeras

Expat appointed “Headman” of Mil Palmeras
Written by Mireille Toddington
Monday, 10 October 2011 13:05
The municipality of Pilar de la Horadada has reinstated the traditional system of village headman or Alcade Pedaneos. Mayor José Fidel Ros has appointed seven representatives at a formal ceremony held at the Casa de Cultura. These people are the Mayor’s deputies and become the most significant government official in their neighbourhoods. The appointments include expatriate Louise Innes, who becomes the Mayors Deputy in Mil Palmeras, and is the only non-Spaniard to be inaugurated.
The mayor said: This is a pioneering initiative for Pilar, and is part of our way of understanding politics and local management of our government administration. This way we can be closer to our own citizens, they themselves will find the doors of the City even more accessible through the headmen. These people live every day in the neighbourhoods and areas of our town that during all these years of socialist rule have been most forgotten.”

The village headman are: Louise Anne Innes (Mil Palmeras), Fernando Collazo (Pinar de Campoverde), María Isabel Pérez (Los Sáez), Faustino Risquez (Torre de la Horadada), Pedro Moreno (Los Hortelanos), Jesús Castillo (Riomar) y María del Carmen Tendero (La Cañada).