The Local Government Board approved in its last session to initiate the corresponding administrative file for the creation of a working team called ‘High Commissioner of Fiestas of Calpe’ in order to address organizational aspects of the local festivities. This commission arises after the last plenary debate about the date of the patron saint's festivity.
This High Commission will be made up of the person in charge of the Department of Festivities and the person who holds the presidency (or a member of the entity to whom he/she delegates) of the following associations and entities:
- Asociación de Moros y Cristianos Santíssim Crist de la Suor
- Patron saint's festival committee for the year in progress at any given time
- La Merced Festivities Committee
- Costaleros de la Mare de Déu del Carme (bearers of the Mare de Déu del Carme)
- Calpe Ifach Musical Union
- Fishermen's Guild
- Bous al carrer (Bulls in the streets)
- AEMCO
The following people will also form part of the Commission: Rafael García Cabrera, linked to the Calpe Holy Week and the patron saint fiestas, Francesc Monjo Dalmau, Calpe historian, Antonia Mª Avargues Pastor, linked to the Moors and Christians fiestas and councillor for fiestas during several terms of office, Josefa Boronat Ivars, municipal fiestas technician, and Esther Asperilla, the Town Council's citizen participation technician, will act as secretary.
The purpose of this commission is to involve all sectors related to the local fiestas in the organisation and decision making of the key aspects of each fiesta.
The Governing Board also agreed to initiate the process for the creation of the special commission of investigation of the Municipal Cemetery to clarify exhumations carried out in the Cemetery without the consent of the direct relatives of the deceased.
This commission was created with the aim of studying all possible cases of illegal exhumation of niches in the municipal cemetery, probably carried out to bury other people's relatives in them. The council has taken this decision after detecting a new case of illegal exhumation, following a complaint from the relatives of a French girl buried in Calpe in the 1970s.