Spanish voters in Sunday’s regional and municipal elections have a choice of new anti-austerity parties, but around 40 mayors first elected in 1979 are hoping they will get back inWhen Luis Partida was first elected as the mayor of a small town on the outskirts of Madrid in 1979, he wasn’t quite sure what the position entailed.“It was a bit of a game, really,” said the People’s party mayor of Villanueva de la Cañada.