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"40 years of shame and political misery are more than enough, they have already deprived the children of my generation to enjoy the square, if it is in my hands I will not allow another day of abandonment from May," the spokesperson warned. of Cs Cartagena, Manuel Padín

The Ombudsman has decided to reopen the investigation on the state of Cartagena's Plaza de la Merced and will return to the City Council to request the issuance of new information.

The spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, has been able to know this point after meeting with members of the Neighborhood Association of Casco Antiguo and Historical, which last December requested the High Commissioner of the Cortes Generales the reopening of the file.

Citizens recalls that the Ombudsman, in June 2017, concluded the actions taken after accepting the word of the City Council that short-term actions would be carried out on the southern façade of the Plaza and the implementation of the integral project design of the Plaza along with the realization of geotechnical surveys with archaeological purpose, "these neighbors tell us that they can not accept that it is considered a" short term ", the most complete inaction since December 7, 2016, at which time the fenced and explanatory signs around the archaeological site that houses ".

The neighborhood collective also recalls that on April 29, 2017, the PSOE and MC Government assured that "extraction drilling to verify the presence of the rock in the subsoil would be carried out imminently, since, in spite of the archaeological excavations , it had not reached the rocky substratum. "

With this action the City promised to advance the project to make possible the coexistence between the historical heritage and the public square, "but two years after the announcement and the supposed imminence of the work, everything remains the same".

"I do not understand so much indifference and so much political misery, it is not fair to promise again and again to the neighbors that you are about to value an emblematic place in the center of Cartagena and constantly miss your word, they are already 40 years of political shame in which not a single slab has been placed, unlike hundreds of squares and spaces throughout the municipality, "laments Manuel Padín, who considers that at least" the government team should have had the education and the sufficient decorum to to inform of the development of the works and of the forecasts to the neighbors, to explain why it can not or wants to fulfill the promises, to propose specific improvements in an environment that has degraded while awaiting the longed for integral reform ".

"The recovery of archaeological treasures is important, necessary, desirable, but while that time comes, neighbors have the right to travel safely and proudly through a historic space of civic coexistence," PP, PSOE and MC have deprived our children of the enjoy the Plaza del Lago and the Old Quarter of Cartagena;

I am not going to allow it to be stolen from future generations, and I am committed in 2019 to walking with a firm step where others have dragged their feet. "

Finally, Citizens recalls that the refusal or negligence of the political decision-makers in sending the report requested by the Ombudsman can be considered as a hostile and disturbing attitude, and in that case he will undertake the public complaint, the negative rating in his report annual and remit the disobedience to the Cortes Generales, in the terms established in article 18 of the Organic Law 3/1981, of April 6.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena