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María Dolores Ruiz: "Although Castejón and Arroyo look the other way, there is a firm sentence, their inaction, in addition to being harmful to our heritage, collides with the law so, once again, we will force them to act." As every August 25 since 1677, we Cartagena celebrate the festival of San Ginés de la Jara, patron saint of our region. This year the pilgrimage will not be possible due to the health situation, but the situation of the Franciscan monastery (convent) should not be forgotten, that is why MC CARTAGENA will propose in the plenary session on Friday that comprehensive restoration be required of the owner company or that this is undertaken in a subsidiary manner by the City Council. The councilor responsible for MC Cartagena's heritage, María Dolores Ruiz, has reported on this initiative that gives continuity to the letter that her group registered on July 22 addressed to the Mayor's Office, in which she demanded the restoration of the monastery. Ruiz explains that "there has been a firm ruling since 2016, thanks to which José López forced the start of restoration work on the Monastery, a ruling that requires restoration in accordance with the agreement signed by Hansa Urbana and the City Council." "When Castejón acceded to the Mayor's Office these works were stopped and since then the degradation has returned, despite the fact that the Law supports the restoration." The Cartagena mayor regrets that "Castejón and Arroyo look the other way" and adds that "there is a firm ruling, their inaction, in addition to being harmful to our heritage, collides with the law so, once again, we will force them to act." The heritage expert recalls that "in 2012 we forced Barreiro to demand restoration, in 2016 with MC in government there was a huge boost and in 2020 we are going to force the PP and the defectors to finish it, because if we let the matter be the monastery will fall ". Ruiz has concluded ironically about the vote that the Government will give in plenary session to this proposal, "as this year they do not invite paella, they will have to choose instead of meat or seafood if they vote for or against, but it will not matter because they will have to swallow with the restoration that interests them so little and that they have been delaying for almost three years for unknown reasons and we believe that they are unspeakable.

" Hermitages of Mount Miral In June of this year it was known that a new sanctioning file was being opened to the owner of these due to their state of abandonment and degradation. Ruiz affirms that "we will also continue trying to recover the hermitages of Monte Miral, which we managed to protect legally in 2018, but that it is very difficult to defend the disinterest of the Ministry of Culture, which seems to work more for the property that allows plunder than for heritage ".

Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena