The spokesman can in the Assembly, Oscar Urralburu, has accompanied the Cartagena municipal group Yes We Can to present the appeal to the City Council review of job modification concession contract Hidrogea services Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation position "it is a legal nonsense that clearly damages the public interest".
Urralburu explained that the extension of 25 years that the City Council made in 2003 with Hidrogea, the company that manages the drinking water in Cartagena is "illegal, since it is an essential modification that alters the basis of the 1992 contract that gave rise the award, being therefore outside the law. These proposed amendments mean a complete restructuring of the bases that were used for the tender ".
The parliamentary spokesman We noted that until the Legal Council of the Region of Murcia itself warned of the illegality of this process and therefore "we presented the remedy by the evidence that the City Council departed from the law in its in full agreement and subsequent recruitment ".
For its part, the Secretary General of Podemos in Cartagena, Javier Escarabajal, said that municipalities are responsible for remunicipalise management of water supplies and "if necessary, revise some unfair contracts that in many cases go against the general interests of the citizenship".
Escarabajal has stressed that the large water companies "have done service management in 60% of our municipalities and since we are committed to defend the interests of Cartagena and Cartagena by requiring transparency and public control of a service that is a constitutional right. "
Source: Podemos Región de Murcia