The Five Most Important News from Alicante this Thursday, 8th May

TodoAlicante's editorial team reviews the current events and compiles, for your convenience, the five most notable news stories that occurred this Monday, 5th May, in the province of Alicante:

After the storm comes the calm. Following the upheaval caused by Jorge Mario Bergoglio's more than twelve years of papacy, which shook the foundations of the Catholic Church with his pastoral openings without doctrinal changes, the 133 cardinals participating in the conclave that began yesterday elected Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old missionary from Chicago with Spanish ancestry, as the new Bishop of Rome. Click to read the news.

It is now official. Alicante's cleaning and waste collection service will go on strike. Netial's works council, the contract holder, announced this Thursday, through the Csif union, that the workforce will stop on the upcoming 16th and 17th June and indefinitely from the 25th of the same month if no progress is made in negotiations. Click here to read.

The National Police now has its promenade in Alicante, between Elche Avenue and Nadadora Carmen Soto Street. With this, the city settles a "historic debt" with the force, according to Mayor Luis Barcala during the tribute and inauguration ceremony held this Thursday morning, 8th May, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the institution. Click here to read the full story.

For the first time in the history of the province of Alicante, the foreign population has exceeded half a million people. The first quarter of 2025 has once again shown significant population growth in Alicante, which is emerging as the fourth most populous territory in Spain, the third if counting only foreign citizens. Click here to read the full story.

The month of May is coming in strong. With a bang and a masclet. The prelude to June, the big one, the one of Alicante's Hogueras, wants to leave its mark on the city with no less than seven mascletàs over the weekends. Eight if we count the one in the San Blas neighbourhood on Sunday. Click here to read the full story.

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