The latest data from the municipal register of Two sistersrelating to January 1, 2025 and published in National Institute of Statistics last week I think he exceeded the 142,500 neighborsgaining two thousand inhabitants compared to … 2024 and two thousand more if we look at the figure from two years earlier. Despite these figures, which give an image of the demographic dimension of this city, the spirit continues to be that of a dormitory town, where many Sevillians have gone to seek residence. This character of the city is also reflected in the fact that few or none of its children still dare to speak publicly about the man who ceased to be their mayor three years ago, the socialist Francisco Toscano.
ABC walks the streets of Dos Hermanas to find out the residents’ opinion of the man who was the all-powerful councilor for 39 years. Many have their opinion but they all prefer to do it anonymously to avoid problems in this stronghold of the PSOE, which promotes Pedro Sanchez to win the 2014 and 2017 primaries against Susana Díaz, then president of the Junta de Andalucía.
José is the name chosen by a 60-year-old neighbor to comment on his vision of Toscano’s years at the head of City Hall: “I don’t understand politics and I don’t care, but there is no other like this city and it’s thanks to Toscano.
In this sense, he adds: “It is said that he commands much, that he better to have him as a friendDon’t get me wrong about him, because maybe, I don’t know… but they say he was even offered the chance to be a minister and he didn’t leave here. “He did a lot for Dos Hermanas.”
“They say that a lot is a lot, it’s better to have him as a friend, not to have trouble with him…”
For his part, Manuel, 48, remembers that a few years ago he went to a Vox election rally at the Dos Hermanas Auditorium because he was curious to know “what it was all about.” There he discovered that there were “infiltrators”“People were taking photos which they then sent to the mayor and town hall to see who was there… Truth or lie, I don’t know, but several made this comment to me at the time the event occurred.”
María, 54, points out that Toscano provided a lot of work in the city: “You worked for a while as a cleaner or a sweeper, then you left. I could collect unemployment and help. Not me, but my family worked like this and it’s a big relief. Of course, you also never knew when it would be your turn or the order of the list.
Finally, Carlos (not his real name), 72 years old and a former city hall employee for decades, remembers that “never, ever, did I hear a single shout or bad manners from Toscano.” But he warns in his testimony that “everyone knew that he was in command and thathe discovered everythingnot about what was happening there, but throughout the city. “He is very intelligent.”
The same feeling of general silence among the population reigned in his mandates among the political opposition. Some members of the opposing parties even held jobs at the Town Hall or at the Dos Hermanas Hippodrome, Toscano’s major project aimed at reviving urban planning in Entrenúcleos. It was his way of making everyone happy.
He Great Hippodrome of Andalusiaas the center built in 2002 is called, was also the ideal place to place, for example, Paco Salazar, today in the eye of the hurricane for accusations of harassment against PSOE colleagues, and his brother-in-law.
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