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Given the motion that the Municipal Group PP would present at the plenary municipal past, asking the City Council to urge the Governing Council impulse of archaeological research and valorization of the portico of the Roman Theater, the president and spokesman MC Jesus Gimenez, recalled that the Consistory is facing, in connection with the management of the PP, the payment of one million euros per year until 2021 by the excavation of the Roman Theatre.

In this sense, Gimenez stressed that the exconsejero of Culture and Sports, Pedro Alberto Cruz, led the Governing Council on March 23, 2012, two decisions on refinancing projects of their competition affecting Cartagena.

The first was four years prolong payment Roman Theatre Museum, which was already built, and relegate to beyond 2020 any new action to complete, such as recovery of the original portico of the monument.

"These agreements contained in the Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia, of 3 April 2012 and were part of the measures that the regional government adopted to minimize the items of the 2012 budget, which could not cope on whole, "said Gimenez.

Also, the president of MC indicates that, at that time, the restoration of the Roman Theater and the construction of the museum, according to the draft Rafael Moneo, was pending payment of 28.8 million euros.

But, according to Jesus Gimenez, "the Administration managed by the PP in 2012 lacked funds to cover what was planned for that year."

For this reason, a new breakdown of funding was made, reducing the contribution of regional coffers in 2012, date on which the CARM still had to pay nine million euros and the City of Cartagena, ruled then by the PP, 7.7 million in addition to what he had to bring CajaMurcia.

MC spokesman continues noting that "funding ended in 2015, but changes in 2012 restructured payment in six annual installments, the last time in 2019, later in 2015 returned to be modified to finish the payment in 2021".

Jesus Gimenez reveals the surprise that the PP now supposed to ask something they were not able to do at the time and postponed until 2020 for publicly detailed economic difficulties.

"It seems that memory is fragile, but the council is facing this expensive debt referred to the museum and the adequacy of the Roman Theatre, pending further until 2021 the amount of one million annual euros, we paid this year and still you have to pay the next five years. "

Also, remember Jesus Gimenez, the City provides 120,000 euros a year as a subsidy for the operation of Roman Theatre Museum, which certainly demonstrates the commitment of the Consistory with this heritage asset.

The president of MC indicates the possibility to manage from the Roman Theatre funds Foundation and programming interventions involving the recovery of the porch, because "it is the most visited museum in the region, as it is publicly announced, so that must have some economic benefit. "

Finally, Gimenez invited the PP to "follow always demanding the same, even knowing that what they seek is not currently feasible and has been publicly acknowledged by its own managers," and hoped that "the budgets of the CARM behold a important local heritage departure, given the interest that now shows the PP in Cartagena ".

Source: MC