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| The objective is to have a specific budget to help municipalities to meet the costs they will have to face to adapt the beaches and help the tourism sector | The mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, has asked the Autonomous Community to implement a Special Plan for coastal municipalities, given the difficulties that this summer presents due to the health and economic crisis.The objective is that this plan has a specific budget to help the municipalities to meet the costs they will have to face to adapt the beaches and help the tourism sector.

The petition has been endorsed by all the mayors of the coastal municipalities.“We are facing a very atypical summer that we are not sure how it will develop.

At this point we do not know if the beach bars can be installed; the conditions in which restaurants and hotels will be found; how the small businesses on our coast will work; the measures that we will have to adopt on our beaches… In short, we are facing a situation of total uncertainty in which the only thing that is clear is that the losses of the tourism sector are going to be high and we must help them to face this season.

The city councils need the Autonomous Community to help us with financing to face this situation, "explained Ana Belén Castejón after the meeting she held this morning with the president of the Autonomous Community, Fernando López Miras, and the mayors of the Region .On the other hand, the mayor has shown her support for the regional government's decision not to hold large events to avoid public gatherings and has made a new appeal to the responsibility of citizens."All the control measures we have maintained so far are useless, if when we can go out we do not respect the rules of hygiene and social distance.

We have come a long way and we must continue to do so, but we will only succeed if we are all aware and We comply with the regulations.

We ask that the children's hours be extended, something that would be very positive if the central government approves it because in our Region the heat is already pressing, but the parents should be doubly responsible because the extension of the hours will imply that they will coincide with more people and they must respect social distancing, "said Castejón.On the other hand, the mayor has reiterated the need for the central government to allow municipalities to use the surplus for social spending, emphasizing that it will not be used for financially sustainable investments.

"It has become clear to me that the Autonomous Community supports the request of the City Councils because it is aware that we need that money.

In the case of Cartagena, we are talking about four million that are very necessary to meet the needs of the population at risk of exclusion, as well as the self-employed, SMEs, small merchants, hoteliers and hoteliers who are the worst going through it.

The Government of Spain must trust in the responsibility of the municipalities that we will be at the height of the circumstances, "he said.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena