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- The PSOE has not included in its draft General State Budget or a single euro in 2019 for the decontamination of land in Cartagena

Cartagena, Wednesday, January 30.

After the information published today by the newspaper La Verdad, which reports the results of a medical study on heavy metal contamination in which lead levels have been detected above the reference values ​​in seven cases, the spokesperson for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, urges the Community to act decisively in the expansion of the epidemiological study that Health has undertaken to clear doubts and fears among the residents of the Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión and Mazarrón as well as in the execution of the entry introduced by Ciudadanos in the 2019 regional budgets of four million euros to act on the rafts and contaminated land in the area.

Regarding the epidemiological study, Manuel Padín recalled that the study began on May 3, 2018 and the Ministry of Health then assured that the provisional conclusions would reach the end of that year, "not to abide by the times and the lack of information generated an avoidable social alarm, "says the orange spokesman who believes that" the indifference shown by the regional PP to a public health problem is inadmissible and reprehensible. "

Therefore, the spokesman has transferred to his regional deputies the need for the Ministry to make public the results and address all the doubts of the neighbors, "not worth a letter and wipe your hands, must go to the field and meet with neighbors and the platforms as many times as it takes, a true public information campaign. "

In addition, Cs understand that the analysis should be more thorough and extensive including the comparative evaluation of the clinical records of the inhabitants of the area to measure the prevalence of various diseases, as claimed by neighbors.

Regarding the Environmental Recovery Plan of Soils Affected by Mining (Prasam), Citizens included a first batch of four million euros for 2019, "but if the one who must select the first actions and take charge of the execution is still with his arms folded as is making the PP, we have done nothing, "says Manuel Padín who has also referred to his Parliamentary Group the importance of knowing" exactly if the 80 deposits have already been inventoried and the multiannual roadmap has been designed with the intervention priorities for the sealing and decontamination of the area, in this sense, the spokesman of Cs requires the Community to justify that the first intervention is carried out in the whole El Lirio, "this will only eat 3.5 million euros, is it really the more urgent action, which involves more extreme risk and not others like in La Paz or the previous location of the Jenny raft? "asks Manuel Padín who doubts even of the p

more praiseworthy review of the PRASAM "besides that ten years is something excessive for the urgency of what we are trying, I do not get the accounts with the 85 million euros expected."

"I believe that, and this is what I have communicated today to our regional deputies, that the appearance of the counselor, Javier Celdrán, in the Assembly is more than justified to give explanations of all these doubts."

Citizens considers that the rafts near the educational centers should enter into the urgent actions to be carried out according to the reports included in the General Directorate of the Environment, "without a doubt, the priority in the proceedings will also be one of the topics to be discussed in the Commission's Report on the socio-environmental problems of the Sierra Minera. "

Cs has also charged against the inaction of the PSOE at the state and municipal level, "the General State Budgets have not included a single euro for the decontamination of the land of Cartagena, that gives us an approximate idea of ​​the little value that the national leaders of the PSOE have given our needs, surely we must seek those funds in the increase of investment in Catalonia to buy the will of the coup and the separatists.

The decontamination of Cartagena must involve the local, regional, state and European administrations, "so we must resort to an Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) similar to that of the Mar Menor," says Padín.

Since activity ceased in the mines in 1992, neither PP nor PSOE have moved a finger to protect the population and stop the runoff to the Mar Menor, "the inaction and the abandonment of bipartisan functions, especially the governments of the PP It has been crazy since then, so we do not believe that the solution passes through these parties that are responsible for the disaster, sooner or later they will pay for what they did and above all for what they did not do ", affirms the Citizen spokesman.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena