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Manuel Padín: "This strategic project is incredibly polarized and polluted by a war of data and contradictory reports that need to be clarified with the main protagonists" |

Cartagena, Thursday, March 28.

The City Council will promote the celebration of an event in Cartagena to publicly discuss the project of a container terminal in El Gorguel.

The agreement promoted by Cs Cartagena has had the support of the PSOE and the abstention of the rest of political formations.

The liberal party picks up the proposal of Alfonso Hernández Zapata, president of the Infrastructure Commission of the Regional Confederation of Business Organizations of Murcia (CROEM) and president of the Regional Federation of Metal Employers of Murcia (FREMM).

The creation of this public debate should have the presence, in addition to the Port Authority, the neighborhood associations, and the environmental groups that signed a manifesto contrary to the El Gorguel project, and also that of all those groups of society civil society who referred to the Community the need to urge the central government to declare the Gorguel dock of National Strategic Interest, "a great act open to the public so that the citizens of Cartagena can judge the project in a transparent manner and with first-class information hand ", explained the spokesman of Cs Cartagena, Manuel Padín, who recognizes that this strategic project," is incredibly polarized and polluted by a war of data and reports from which we can hardly get some kind of certainty. "

Cs succeeded in the previous plenary session that the City Council urged the Government of Spain to make the declaration of the National Strategic Project.

That proposal was approved with the votes of PP and MC and counted on the abstention of the PSOE, and the vote against Podemos, "66.6 percent of public representatives endorsed a road that began more than a decade ago. with the objective of the European Union to decide if the El Gorguel project is viable and desirable, while only 12 percent was opposed, "said the spokesman of Cs Cartagena who explained that" 30,000 jobs for the port activity, 42,000 if we have the associated industrial activity, or know that the Port of Valencia moves to the year 500,000 containers of companies in the Region of Murcia to be sent from Cartagena would save 90 million euros a year, are only two of the many and powerful reasons to try to get the project moving forward. "

Citizens remember that their position is shared by UMU and UPCT public universities, by the Chambers of Commerce of Murcia, Cartagena and Lorca, by business groups, CROEM, COEC and FREMM, professional associations, technology centers, agricultural associations, associations for the disabled and also by the residents of Cartagena directly affected by the current port of merchandise that sent written support through associations of the Santa Lucia neighborhood and surrounding areas.

Currently, 130 million containers pass by in front of Cartagena "and are business opportunities that we are losing, if there is the slightest possibility of getting a container port that can take advantage of the growth of global merchandise traffic our obligation as public representatives is to try, but with all the environmental guarantees. "

"In Cs we recognize the importance of environmental impact and therefore we hope to receive a positive report from the European Union to address this necessary infrastructure for Cartagena and the entire Region", concludes Manuel Padín.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena