Candidate for the regionalist party Més per Mallorca (More for Mallorca) Richard Thompson has been appointed as the new mayor of Sant Joan, in the centre of the island.
When the residents of the small Spanish town of Sant Joan, in the Balearic Islands, saw their new mayor was British they gasped: “Really?”.
Followed by: “That’s ridiculous”.
Richard Thompson, originally from West Sussex in southern England, has been in office for less than a week, after beating Spanish candidates in the regional elections held at the end of May.
The 52-year-old British teacher moved to Spain nine years ago when he fell in love and began living in the small town of 2,000 people after getting married.