Carmen Torrijo, proclaims that she would abandon the renewal and in the case of being elected on Friday, would be the first woman to lead the Club since its foundation, 128 years ago

On February 2, the thousands of members of the legendary Real Club of Regatas of Alicante are called to the polls to vote between the continuism of López Barrero or the renewal proposed by Carmen Torrijo... between 11: 00 in the morning, and 8: 00, the partners to the current of their quotas and with a minimum age of one year will be able to choose one or another... in any case the Electoral Board on Thursday eight will officially proclaim the winning candidacy, which has achieved the confidence of the Alicantine social mass.

The candidacy of Carmen Torrijo is very numerous, they are no less than twenty components with Ignacio Quero and Máximo Catula of vice-presidents, José Cantó and Cocúa Ripoll de Comodoros, Gonzalo Rivero de Secretario, Miguel Rosique de Tesorero, Carlos Parodi de Contador... it is completed by Joaquín Valero, Alfonso Benito, Diego Campos, Román Bono, Vicente Lorca, Carlos Martínez, Pablo Suárez, María Teresa Ravello, Antonio Marcos, Francisco Giménez, José María Ollana and Ignacio as vocales.

The candidate highlights the need for renewal for the development of nautical and social activities. To promote the child and youth categories of all disciplines, quarry of future champions. All this will lead to the recovery of the social mass, and the prestige it had, with the aim of rereferring to the national level at all levels... she proposes to the partners in her program:

• Open the club to the city to increase the number of partners and thus consolidate the basis to ensure its viability. We need to break barriers and remove stereotypes, El Club is an excellent platform for the pliers to enjoy the sea in all its extent and benefit from the means that the Club should make available to them to practice water sports.
• Promote cooperation agreements with municipalities, Diputación, universities, educational centres, nautical clubs and other sports, cultural and social associations, to offer them the participation of their groups (citizens, students, athletes, regatists) in the activities organized by the Club. In addition to promoting agreements with other entities for the exchange of activities and events, and the reciprocal use of facilities.
• Improved mooring management by optimizing and redistributing its current space, thus accommodating more boats of different sizes, while providing innovative ideas that have already borne fruit in other international clubs.
• Expansion and improvement of the facilities and the gastronomic offer at both headquarters as well as recovery of social events.