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This morning, the deputy spokesman of the municipal group MC Cartagena, Jesús Giménez, has valued the statements of the mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, who after the meeting held yesterday with the president of the CARM, Fernando López Miras, demanded greater regional funding and Regional for the city of Murcia.

The Cartagenerist leader has begun by stating that "Ballesta's megalomania is closer to the bully who steals the sandwich from his classmates than that of a responsible politician."

"After forty years of autonomy, the city of Murcia has consistently received the lion's share of the regional budget while the other forty-four municipalities received crumbs," he continued.

He then pointed out that "Murcia has grown by 200,000 inhabitants in four decades thanks precisely to the contribution of the central and regional administrations and, above all, by the size of the regional administration that has been installed and grown there."

In contrast to this, he recalled that "while, Cartagena is the only Mediterranean city of reference that loses population as a result of the same policies."

From Ballesta's statements it follows that he does not take into account the wealth generated by all the Councils, with more than 60,000 officials and their salaries, as well as the companies that have settled there.

A privileged few

In this context, Giménez has added that "capitality is not a burden for Murcia but a blessing, which has been endorsed with the new Statute of Autonomy against the announced and fair capital of Cartagena."

"What's more," continued the Cartagenerist leader, "when he regrets that, regardless of these data, he only received 221 euros per inhabitant in 2018, obviously that each Cartagena received 31 euros less that same year, and that his municipality is always above the regional average. "

The effects of 'La Trinca'

During his speech, Jesús Giménez has reported that "if Cartagena had a local government, today these and other reasons would be given in defense of the Cartagena, but we are very afraid that Castejón and Arroyo only talk about Ballesta to finalize meetings with sardines and barracks , very smiling, yes. "

"Meanwhile, here, the Cartagena people die on our way to Murcia, we breathe air and we step on contaminated soil or our children study under asbestos, paying tolls (which are not lacking). But that should not be important, because López Miras has already said that he will work for attend the claims of Ballesta, and the Government of Pedro Sánchez maintains the rain of millions for the municipality that announced De la Serna put a child of San Ildefonso in February 2018, "he said.

Need to optimize regional financing

Jesús Giménez has concluded by warning that "of course, we have to improve the regional financing in our Region to allocate investment to the 44 discriminated municipalities and not to the projects of a city."

"We could start by working on the regional weight with biprovinciality and that 2020 is the first year of fair and supportive budgets, which should imply that everyone, at least, can eat our snack."

Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena