VOX criticises heat and poor conditions at Sagunto's Internúcleos sports hall
The VOX group on Sagunto's city council says the Internúcleos sports hall reaches temperatures above 35°C because the air conditioning is not working, and claims a child fainted from the heat during training. They are demanding urgent repairs.
The VOX group on Sagunto's city council has criticised the state of the Pabellón de Internúcleos (a municipal sports hall), where it says training sessions reach a heat index above 35°C because the air conditioning does not work properly. The party's spokesperson, Alejandro Vila Polo, says athletes and families have told him about the problem, and that a child fainted from the heat during a training session. Vila described the venue as feeling "like a real oven" and asked the council to check whether the cooling system is broken or was simply built too small for the space. VOX also points to broken seats in the stands and a damaged, unusable power socket, and is calling for regular maintenance of municipal sports facilities.
VOX's criticism also covers the new handball hall, located opposite Sagunto's cemetery. According to the party, this venue opened without a working air conditioning system, a problem it blames on poor planning that did not properly account for the size of the building when the cooling system was designed. Vila says the city government itself now admits it will need to spend more public money to fix that original design mistake.
This handball hall is not just any sports venue for the city: it is where Fertiberia Puerto Sagunto (the local handball club) secured sporting promotion to Spain's NEXUS ENERGÍA ASOBAL League on 24 May 2026, beating Fundación Agustinos Alicante 18-17 in the decisive match. The fact that the very venue of a historic promotion for local handball has had an unresolved cooling problem since it opened adds political weight to VOX's complaint, which calls for accountability over a building meant to be a sporting landmark for Puerto de Sagunto.
The spokesperson used the complaint to question the city government's broader sports policy, arguing it is contradictory to seek outside funding for new projects while neglecting the upkeep of facilities already under direct council responsibility. VOX is demanding three things together: urgent repair of the air conditioning at the Pabellón de Internúcleos, fixing the maintenance problems it has flagged — including seats and sockets — and accountability for the issues at the handball hall since it opened.
Neither facility has received, according to the complaint, a detailed public response from the city government about a repair timeline. According to elperiodicodeaqui.com, with additional information from asobal.es on the Fertiberia Puerto Sagunto promotion.