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Today, the deputy spokesman of MC Cartagena, Jesús Giménez, has requested that "the budget items necessary to convert the submarine 'Tonina' (S-60) into a new tourist attraction for Cartagena and thus expand the leisure offer related to this fundamental page of our history. "

In line with this argument, Giménez has announced that his training will defend an initiative in the next Plenary so that the City Council "will resume the project led by José López to convert the submarine 'Tonina' (S-60) into a new tourist attraction for Cartagena and thus expand the cultural offer of the municipality. "

"This is an initiative that while MC in the City Hall was advanced and agreed with Navantia, boycotted by the regional government, being Arroyo Minister of Culture."

"Now we demand that the Port Authority, the shipyard and the three administrations combine efforts to materialize a project that we consider strategic," he has continued to argue.

The attempts of the PP to 'knock down' the project

Subsequently, Giménez has lamented the "continuous attempts" of the regional and national PP to, in 2016, "torpedoar that the Tonina was located in the area of ​​the Mompeán bridge, an action that sought a double effect; on the one hand, add a new attraction tourism for the municipality and, on the other, contribute to the recovery of the neighborhoods of Santa Lucia and Los Mateos, framing with the submarine Peral and Tonina the maritime facade ".

"Whether in that place, with the obvious social benefits, or next to the Naval Museum as it is also projected, the truth is that Cartagena and the Submarine Weapon are an inseparable binomial since Isaac Peral created his submersible," Jesús Giménez has reasoned.

In the same way, he added that "Cartagena, city of the Underwater Weapon is a future project that unites dissemination and promotion with history, science and technology. That is why we are committed to retake it."

2021, year of the Underwater Weapon in Cartagena

"And to the Tonina exhibition, we add the proposal to start working so that 2021 is the year of the Submarine Weapon in Cartagena, which must coincide with the arrival of the S80 project, strategic for the Spanish state and our success municipality, "concluded Giménez.

Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena