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CTSSP-PODEMOS has considered shameful that the General Directorate of Culture, a body dependent on the Regional Government, resolves the partial demolition of the prison of San Antón in the middle of the Christmas holidays, knowing that it is an emblematic building of the municipality, with high value patrimonial and historical.

The purple formation, which has been the direct architect of the protection of the building, has announced that it is finalizing the presentation of new resources and that it also expects the same attitude on the part of the Local Government, which can and should appeal the resolution to avoid the granting of the licenses and permits for works and partial demolition.

From the municipal group of Podemos have recalled that this painful situation has its origin in the disdain that has always shown the PP for the local heritage ... a disdain continued by the Government of MC that deliberately let go, and even on two occasions, the possible purchase of the prison, thus facilitating the prison being acquired by the Perpetuo Socorro hospital.

Since Podemos they have committed to work together on everything that the Platform for the protection of the building undertakes, and they have insisted again to the Socialist Government that it must continue as it has been up to now, complying with its electoral program and with the commitments unanimously approved by the Plenary session of the City Council of Cartagena, commitments that required, among other things, the implementation of a negotiation table with the current owner of the property to explore all possible formulas (expropriation, sale or exchange) so that the building of the old jail passes into the hands of the City Council and is intended for public use, for social, cultural and neighborhood activities.

To such ends, from the municipal group of Podemos have insisted that the Local Government must contemplate a specific item in the 2019 budgets, and that in this way the municipality of Cartagena can acquire what by right corresponds to it, since it is an absolute aberration that a building of undeniable patrimonial and historical value can end up becoming the parking lot of a private hospital: it is enough to remember that the San Antón prison is the first building in Spain that is conceived to give a certain dignity to prisoners, the equivalent of our Graduated Schools.

Source: CTSSP