Cambiemos calls for Orihuela to recover more than €3,000 spent on New York trip
Tourism councillor Gonzalo Montoya and a council adviser accompanied the Moros y Cristianos in the parade on 11 October 2026.
Cambiemos Orihuela is calling on Tourism councillor Gonzalo Montoya and a council adviser to repay more than €3,000 for their trip to New York, where they accompanied Orihuela’s Moros y Cristianos in the Hispanic Day Parade, held on 11 October 2026 on Fifth Avenue.
The party questions whether the trip had its own institutional agenda and regards the meeting at La Nacional, the organisation behind the parade, as a protocol event.
Vox says the trip was intended to promote tourism. According to the party, the councillors paid the expenses upfront and submitted their receipts to Human Resources so that the council could decide whether to cover any of them. Councillor for the Coast Manuel Mestre also travelled; Cambiemos says he paid his own expenses.
The festival participants’ travel arrangements were organised separately: the Santas Justa y Rufina Festival Association said participants paid for their own trips and that the group received no council funding. The dispute concerns the expenses of the councillor and adviser, not the funding of the festival participants.
La Nacional invited the association, which linked its presence in New York to promoting the festivals and their bid for International Tourist Interest status. The 2026 parade was the 62nd edition.
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