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Citizens has denounced today that the Government of Cartagena violates the commitment made at the last meeting of the Trade Council on August 16, to convene on September 18 a meeting to discuss the proposals of all municipal and collective groups for the Plan of Dynamization of the Small Commerce.

According to the orange spokesman, Manuel Padín, "the balance in this area of ​​the PSOE Government is a collection of political calamities: they announce the development of the trade plan in the last year of the legislature, they shoot 10 loose proposals of a 2012 Palencia plan that it does not adapt to the peculiarities of Cartagena, and they keep blocked the Table of Commerce that has only held an operative session ".

The spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena says that "one of the most incredible things about the draft Trade Plan is that it does not include a single mention of the main claim of the hoteliers and merchants of Cartagena: the promotion of foreign promotion."

Cs has incorporated 26 proposals to the draft, "initiatives that arise from the meetings held with the commercial collectives throughout the legislature, from our table of work for trade, and from a comparative analysis of the trade plans of other cities. like Bilbao, Cáceres, San Sebastián, Zaragoza, Valencia or La Rioja, "duly quoted, what we are never going to do is present 10 proposals copied literally from a single municipality and pass them off as their own as the socialists have done", he insisted. Manuel Padín.

Among the proposals of Cs, highlights a commercial action plan to attract and encourage consumption of the thousands of cruise passengers visiting Cartagena each year, "in La Coruña, more than 85% of these tourists enjoy their cuisine and make purchases in the small trade, in Valencia, Coruña Barcelona or Cádiz, the average cost per day of its cruise passengers is between 65 and 100 euros, according to several tourism observatories, the average daily cost of the cruise in Spain is 53 euros per day , while in Cartagena around 30 euros according to the Port Authority, "we are therefore 35 percent below the national average, so it is clear that we need a joint strategy between all actors, Cartagena Port of Cultures, sector commercial and hospitality and Port Authority;

No matter how good the results for Cartagena are for cruise tourism, if the city is not rewarded because the local government is not able to draw up a plan that takes tourists and visitors to our shops, we are not doing anything. "

For this reason, Citizens has also asked that the Port Authority be included in the Council to design together with the City Council and the groups of the sector a strategy of commercial attraction "so that the thousands of cruise passengers who visit us every year do not pass by for our business. "

On the other hand, the spokesman of Citizens has said that "the investment in the promotion to attract our neighbors Murcia, Sewer, Molina de Segura, is a shame in Cartagena, you just have to review the daily press to realize: when it arrives the weekend the Cartagena is more informed of the cultural and leisure offer of the city of Murcia than the one of his municipality thanks to the insertions in press, radio and television of the neighboring City Hall ".

Another of the major shortcomings of the draft is for Cs the lack of a study of the problem of empty premises and the proposal of solutions for the activation of these commercial spaces that have been lost, "for this reason, we have proposed a collaboration plan with the real estate sector, the preparation of a census of empty premises to connect this information with entrepreneurs who want to open a business, and the development of a project to promote the generational change between freelancers and family businesses without alternation, something already agreed in the last Ordinary plenary thanks to the work of Cs ".

Ciudadanos also considers it essential to carry out an analysis of the commercial spaces that allow distinguishing areas of high commercial density from those in need of a revitalization so that the City Council is in a position to territorially balance the commercial distribution in the municipality.

The orange training will also include training plans not only for traders but also for municipal technicians who must interact with them so that they have both the best possible knowledge regarding regulations, public-private agreements and financing, planning and promotion tools. .

Throughout the legislature, Cs has proposed innumerable measures to reactivate the Cartagena trade, among others, the proposal of the Week of Small Commerce, the preparation of the candidacy of Cartagena as the Spanish Capital of Gastronomy, the Shadow Plan in the public spaces, the Gisbert Market rehabilitation, and the creation of a digital meeting platform on the municipal website that serves not only to help and guide users who are visiting the municipality or will do so, but also to the merchants themselves and entrepreneurs with the census of empty premises and with various tips and aids for financing, promotion, and innovation.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena