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Citizens has been the only political party that has warned of the sharp decline in population in Cartagena in the last five years, "in August 2018 we publicly warned of this worrying and revealing demographic indicator," said the spokesman and candidate of Cs to the Mayor of Cartagena, Manuel Padín, who reports that "the demographic regression continues and the latest data from the INE places us below 214,000 inhabitants (213,943), we have lost at least five years 3,700 inhabitants, curiously the same number of people as has won the municipality of Murcia in just one year ".

For Manuel Padín, "we have a serious problem on our hands, or we begin to realize that this can not continue like this or we are condemned to the most absolute territorial irrelevance".

The liberal spokesman lists some of the causes of the demographic regression in the municipality, "the lack of public services, professional opportunities, transport infrastructure, the brutal aging of the real estate park, the deterioration and abandonment of neighborhoods and councils, the scarce foreign tourist promotion, the lack of facilities to start a business, the lack of fiscal incentives, pollution or of course the huge concentration of companies, entities and public institutions in the city of Murcia ".

"That this situation is taking place in a port municipality, with a strong tourist vocation, with a unique natural and cultural heritage, and with such a powerful and settled industrial fabric is an anomaly that gives an idea of ​​how far they have been unable, damaging and unfair to Cartagena the municipal and regional policies of the last 20 years ".

Citizens has been the only party that has warned of this phenomenon in Cartagena and managed last October to take forward in the ordinary plenary an agreement that urges the Government of Cartagena to develop, as soon as possible, a study on the socioeconomic reality of the municipality, to identify the evolution of those areas with a greater deficit in services and infrastructures, as well as lack of public aid and those that are suffering from the phenomenon of depopulation.

The initiative of Cs also involves expanding the current and limited Municipal Employment Observatory so that it extends its objectives to be a complete socio-economic observatory that guides budgetary policies, "neighborhoods and councils have suffered decades of unfair, electoralist investment deals. and without a head ".

The most ambitious plan against depopulation is Cs

Citizens knows how to reverse this situation, and is able to face it, first with the socioeconomic analysis and second, with the drafting and implementation of a comprehensive economic plan against depopulation in Cartagena that includes strong tax incentives for the implementation of businesses, decentralization of institutions and the transfer of the Ministry of Tourism or Customs to Cartagena, the design of budgets aimed at the priorities and the recovery of the most abandoned areas, strengthen and not let out more regional and European lines of aid to clean and rehabilitate housing , intermediation works to resuscitate commercial activity, new inventories and empty housing stock exchanges, promote access to banking services in rural areas, promote local daycare services inspired by home help for the elderly, telecare and medical assistance telephony in the areas where the displazam

These are difficult and expensive, optimization and improvements in public transport, "among many other measures of which we have already proven effective," said Manuel Padin.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena