We are anticipating the constitution of the new municipal corporation, which will presumably take place on the 17th of June, because we already have a 'new mayor'. His name is Adrián Fernández and he is a third year primary student at Los Campanales school. The mayor has announced his plans for the new term of office: "to create new parks with zip lines, more football pitches, a skate park, street markets and more things". And for this he has a great team, his classmates, who this Tuesday have served as councillors thanks to the programme 'Get to know your municipality', an initiative of the Department for Education, which has been developed throughout the school year. 

The head of the department, Mariló Olmedo (Cs), was in charge of welcoming the students. The councillor stressed that "although there are still two groups to come, which will do so tomorrow and on the 15th, we close this programme with great satisfaction because more than 2,500 students have benefited from this initiative thanks to which they have discovered the Town Hall and Mijas Village, the Coastal Path and the archaeological site of Acebedo, but most have asked to come to Mijas Village and see the historic and artistic centre and the Town Hall". Today the pupils have asked many questions such as why prices go up or down, how the mayor is elected, who was the first mayor of Mijas, if foreign residents can vote in the municipal elections or why there is a picture of the King and Queen of Spain in the Town Hall, a question that is repeated in all the visits of the schoolchildren.

Unlike some other plenary sessions, all the questions were answered by the mayor, Josele González (PSOE), who joined the activity, with which we seek "that all the children, especially those who live in other urban areas and perhaps have never been to Mijas Pueblo, Las Lagunas or La Cala, have the opportunity to know how big their municipality is and spend a different school day getting to know their town, as the name of this programme says".

After their visit to the Town Hall, the students walked through the most emblematic streets of Mijas Pueblo, visited the Folk Museum and got to know the miniatures that the Carromato de Max has in store for them.

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