The new Municipal Executive has been elected by more than 79% of the votes, obtaining broad and solid support.
In addition, the Municipal Committee has obtained the support of 98% of the delegates.
The Secretary General, Manolo Torres said in this regard that "Today we are launching a collective project that we have worked together for many months. A project of which I am the visible face, but behind which the majority of Cartagena members are."
In his review of the current political situation he has emphasized the parental veto that the extreme right wants to impose with the connivance of the extreme right, "today, with the impulse of the political right, but also the passivity of some local governments, is trying to advance in a model of authoritarian society.That parental veto that is trying to be implemented is the tool with which they intend to control the education of children.It is a measure against the rights of children and academic and teaching autonomy, which attempts against coexistence and equality. Against freedom, "recalling that" our government, that of Pedro Sánchez, has exercised an exercise of responsibility defending our minors and teachers with recourse to the judicial process to suspend the implementation of the veto parental. "
Manolo Torres has also highlighted the ecocide that is occurring in the Mar Menor indicating that "in this also the extreme right and the extreme right come back to shake hands, first to deny the obvious, the impact of the hand of man, the inaction of 25 years of right-wing government, abusive and predatory practices. "
In addition, it has highlighted other specific problems of the municipality such as a sanction punished and that have surgical waiting lists and absolutely unbearable specialties, the catalog of contaminated soils, the problem of the industrial model that begins to be outlined with the dismissal of almost 100 workers Due to the closure of the SABIC plant, a port that has to be developed and expanded to be the engine of our economy, a tourist model beyond the historical heritage that does not find a suitable place in the national context, the serious infrastructure problems of the municipality or the urgent need of the Los Camachos ZAL that the Regional Government has incomprehensibly stopped for more than a year, among others.
Source: PSOE Cartagena