- "Five years of archaeological prospecting and we are still without reform project for the Plaza de la Merced", denounces the Cs spokesman who has announced that his group will send the new information to the Ombudsman and that he has requested a meeting with the Councilor for Heritage, David Martínez
- Citizens remember that if they do not start work on Beatas street (today the City Council has confirmed that they will resume shortly) and work begins on the parking lot in front of Santa Lucía Hospital, "it will be impossible for us to negotiate the 2019 accounts; that in a few days it is reported parking, "said the spokesman for Cs
After confirming that the urban reform of the Plaza de la Merced remains undated and that only new archaeological interventions are planned in 2019, and that the stoppage of the works promoted in the budgets by the orange formation on Calle Beatas continues, the spokesperson for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, has indicated that, "the culprits of the new paralyzation are not other than PSOE, MC, and the regional government of the PP because they have used this public and emblematic space as a political battlefield that has paralyzed everything , the necessary archaeological interventions, the drafting of projects, and the long-awaited urban reform, while these parties remain entrenched in regional and local administration the recovery of the square will be only a promise ".
"Five years of archaeological prospecting and we are still without reform project", denounces Manuel Padín who has announced that his Group is going to send the new information to the Ombudsman and that he will request explanations in the ordinary Plenary to the Government of the PSOE.
Citizens has also requested a meeting today with the Councilor for Heritage, David Martinez, to "take stock, establish a clear road map, without lies or empty promises, and from there we want to leave with the deadlines and clear costs of the future; that we will take into account if there is negotiation of budgets with the PSOE for 2019, "said the orange spokesman who wanted to make clear that if the works of Beatas and parking in front of Santa Lucia Hospital do not start before the end of the year we will sit down with the PSOE;
we will make our amendments, but we will not be able to agree on anything;
and seen what happened in other years, is something that does not suit the team of Ana Belén Castejón ".
"Today we have known that Beatas Street will resume shortly, now we only need the deadline to start work on the parking lot in front of Santa Lucia," said Manuel Padín.
"It is exhausting and sad to see again and again how the bipartisan lack of coordination, together with the useless populism of MC, destroys everything", says Manuel Padín who recalls that "the last thing that has been done in the square and because we left the voice since 2015 in plenary sessions, was to remove the horrific metal fence in December 2016 and replace it with another more friendly perimeter with identification signs, and put a cement plant, that is, it has been more than two years without MC, PSOE and PP have moved a finger to finish the projects, more than two years in white to match the value of the valuable deposit with the recovery of this public space for the neighbors after decades of abandonment ".
"And this time, the PSOE can not blame the Directorate of Cultural Assets because they already have the permits to carry out the surveys that are now foreseen for 2019 when they were even budgeted this year," adds Padín.
A nightmare planning
"The Plaza del Lago is probably one of the spaces in Cartagena that has paid the most political incompetence and the incredible and demoralizing lack of planning" recriminates the Cs spokesman who asks: "how will PSOE and MC explain to the residents of Casco Antiguo who have preferred to fight among themselves to give solutions, how they will explain that from 2014 and until 2019 they will invest almost one million euros and continue in the dirty state in which they find themselves, how we explain them that the last archaeological interventions have not served to carry out the project of reform and that there is to do new prospections valued at 200,000 euros that will also cross San Diego Street that has been recently asphalted ".
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena