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There are 17,462 registered foreign voters in Murcia and this could be an important factor in some municipalities in the region in the upcoming local and regional elections to be held on Sunday 22nd May.Whilst the majority of those registered voters come from other EU member states (61.83 percent) as against 38.16 percent from elsewhere, within those figures the two countries with the largest

At long last Mazarron Country Club near Mazarrón in Murcia Region, where I have my holiday home in Spain, has a newly-elected President and Vice-president, together with a team of people to manage the future affairs of our 'Urbanización'. If you want to know more, click here to visit the MCC website, or you can visit 'Soapbox' if you have access to that - if you want to know how to get access if

Tomorrow (Thursday 4th June) the European Elections start, but they will not be completed until Sunday 7th June. As an Expatica article helpfully explains it's a lot more complicated than that - and of course the whole thing will take several weeks to resolve as the results are digested in the 'carving up' of the top jobs on committees, etc: European Elections- voting timetableThursday 4th

Of course I've been following the US presidential election closely, but here is how one Murcia newspaper has greeted the victory of Barack Obama, or in his words sending a message to the world.PS/ I am sorry for the paucity of posts here in the past week (or so) - I have been busy here in Scotland and there haven't been a lot of unexpected or dramatic developments in Murcia region recently (or at

It has now been intimated to me that the notes I have prepared of the MCC AGM on 26SEP08 (which I advised were finalised here) will not appear on the CoO website in the 'members area' in the immediate future and when they might appear there is not known to me.Please note that I will not be sending out copies of my notes to anyone who asks me for them by direct email, unless I happen to know them

I'm pleased to say I've now completed my notes on last Friday's AGM and sent them off a short while ago for possible inclusion in the 'members only' area of the CoO website; I've no idea how long it will be before they appear there, probably at least a couple of days I imagine. As I mentioned here I'm also sending the notes to a few selected individuals who I happen to know personally - they will

(Please see UPDATE at end)Further to my earlier 'holding' article here, I am pleased to say I have now input all of my notes taken at the AGM last Friday. So far I have proof-read and corrected the first roughly four hours of the meeting in my master file. I have done a proof-read of the final 90 or so minutes of the meeting, too, but as I am becoming tired (it is nearly 10pm) I will be doing the

(Please see inportant UPDATES at end)I just returned home less than an hour ago after a MARATHON day attending the AGM of the Community of Owners of Mazarron Country Club today. The meeting finally got underway at 10.25 this morning, when all the 'stragglers' had got themselves seated, and was closed at 15.45 in the afternoon, after a 'lively' and some might call it 'gruelling' 5 hours and 20

Since I wrote about Sandra Newman's public meeting last Friday there have been a number of developments relative to the upcoming AGM this Friday; most of these have been detailed in the various bulletin boards and websites with which many readers will be familiar. In case you are not I have grouped many of the most useful MCC-related websites of which I am aware near the top of the left column

This afternoon Sandra Newman, one of the two declared candidates to be elected President of the Community of Owners of Mazarron Country Club held a public meeting outside the restaurant at MCC to discuss her platform and to answer questions that residents might have. She referred those present to the 'Statement' which appears in her website; I mentioned my plans to attend the meeting in an

(Please note that this article has been amended since first written to include a link to the website of Sandra Newman, one of the two candidates for President of the Community of Owners of Mazarron Country Club so far declared. I have also added a dedicated blogroll near the top of the left colum titled: 'MCC - electioon websites')The major upcoming event for Mazarron Country Club is the Annual

With the Spanish national elections coming up next month, increasingly optimistic proposals are being made by both of the two main political parties, the governing Socialists and the opposition Popular Party. Today President (i.e. Prime Minister) Zapatero has come up with a startling idea - basically that young Spaniards need to be able to use English both at a social and professional level to