• The main minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo: "Brexit cannot be as difficult as the closing of the gate"
  • Worst scenario: The British Government recognizes in its internal documents the chaos that Brexit could cause without agreement

The puzzle was revealed. Gibraltar had to hold general elections before the end of this year and the question was whether the main minister, Fabian Picardo , would do so before or after October 31, due date for leaving the United Kingdom and hence the colony of the European Union with the already well-brexit.

Finally, number 6 of Convent Place, the headquarters of the Plain Executive, has made official the date of an electoral process that will undoubtedly mark the immediate future of the more than 30,000 people residing in the Rock. It will be Thursday, October 17, so predictably in the early hours of the morning, the name of the leader who will have to govern the Brexit process will be known.

Picardo, who aspires to his third term, will have as political rivals Keith Azopardi, current leader of the opposition group, the GSD, but who is not a parliamentarian and the former of this formation, Marlene Hassan Nahon, who created Together Gibraltar and will be presented as headliner of this new citizen movement that has emerged in the Rock to end the traditional bipartisanship of the GSLP and the GSD.

Another of the news that was planned for these elections, although it has not finally been carried out, was the extension of the parliament that was going to pass from the current 17 members, to 25. At the moment, this decision has been postponed in which yes they agreed government and opposition.

Last Friday, during his meeting with the mayor of La Línea, Juan Franco, the main minister, Fabian Picardo, joked with journalists about the intense end of the year that awaited politicians. "We will have elections in the United Kingdom, possibly in Spain and also in Gibraltar." Asked whether those that directly affect him would be before or after Brexit, he replied "Who knows?" The answer, official, has arrived today. The 17/0 is the chosen day.

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