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- One of the issues that worries Citizens is that the "everlasting and stupid" bipartisan war prevents collaboration between the Community and the City Council, "the regional government sponsored the literary event of the city of Murcia and benefited it with a departure from the Plan Regional Reading Promotion, we do not deserve less in Cartagena, "warns the orange training spokesman, Manuel Padín

Citizens has assured today that the Book Fair will be held in Cartagena between March and April 2019, ten years after its last edition.

The spokesman for the orange training in Cartagena, Manuel Padín explained that the councilor responsible for the area of ​​Culture, David Martinez, has confirmed that his department has already begun the first contacts with various public and private entities to organize this event;

However, despite the insistence of Cs, the City Council recognizes that it has not yet contacted the Community to collaborate with the Fair as it did with the one that has been held this year in the city of Murcia.

Citizens has also learned that in its latest edition, in 2009, the Cartagena PP spent 200,000 euros in the realization of this fair, "with that inflated and wasteful budget, no wonder that it disappeared in the worst years of the crisis", has indicated Manuel Padín, who ensures that these events are around 50,000 euros in cities that have a population similar to Cartagena, "we must find a balance between what we deserve and what we can pay at this time."

In spite of everything, Manuel Padín has warned the PSOE that Cs is not going to settle for "a decaffeinated fair to fulfill the plenary agreement that we took forward in July, we want at least what was done in the neighboring municipality where some thirty were placed of exhibitors, it was attended by different authors (some of national and international renown) and a broad agenda of activities such as conferences, round tables, book presentations, children's workshops, musical performances and film screenings was developed, among others. "

The objective of Cs is to remove the foundations of the cultural sector of Cartagena to reactivate and promote it.

One of the issues that concerns Citizens is the possible lack of will of the Community and the City Council to collaborate for the "stupid and timeless" political differences between the PP and PSOE, "The regional government sponsored the event in the city of Murcia and benefited economically with the Regional Plan for the Promotion of Reading 2017-2019, and we do not want anything else for the city of Cartagena ", warns Manuel Padín.

Therefore, the Municipal Group has transferred to its regional deputies in the Assembly the need to urge the regional government to collaborate economically with the celebration of the Book Fair in 2019 under a heading of the Regional Plan for the Promotion of Reading which has reserved 1.5 million euros, "it is also important that this request comes clearly from the local government," says Manuel Padín.

On the other hand, Ciudadanos reminds the PSOE that it must draft a regulation to regulate the participation in the Fair, "the application and the procedure for the adjudication of the booths, the participation fee, the obligations of the exhibitors, the price, the products , and the conditions of sale, all this must be crystal clear, but the answers given us by the PSOE Government in the last ordinary session we suspect that they do not take it into account.

Source: Cs Cartagena