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This afternoon, during the course of the Municipal Plenary of the City of Cartagena, the municipal group MC presented an initiative, which has had the only support of Cartagena Yes It Can, abstention of C's and PSOE and vote against PP, for To urge the municipal services to communicate, immediately and in a timely manner, the denunciation of the automatic extensions of the initial contract, pursuant to the concession dated December 26, 1992, to the company Hidrogea, a company Concessionaire of the water service.
The proposal of the Cartagena formation was based on the provision that the extension of the contract agreed in 2003 by the Plenary be declared null and void.
Therefore, the abstention of C's and PSOE has made it possible for the vote against the PP to have avoided the approval of an initiative aimed at guaranteeing in a preventive way the non-application of the extension of a contract dated 1992 and that it contemplated extensions of the same one of Tacit form with a duration of five years, up to a maximum of fifty years.
This renewal would be possible as long as there was no denunciation by the City Council one year in advance.
The reason for the motion presented by MC and defended by the mayor María José Soler is the non-resolution of the request made in 2014 by the current mayor, José López (MC), at that time spokesman of the municipal group MC in the opposition.
That year, López requested the revision of the agreement of the Plenary of November 12, 2003 that determined the modification of the contract of concession of the services of supply of drinking water and sanitation, variation of the contract that counted on the silence and, therefore, Seen by all the political groups that formed the corporation.
It should be recalled that during the current term, Cartagena Yes You Can also claimed a review of said extension.
The agreement fixed the extension of the contract, which expired next year, until the year 2042. Or what is the same, an extension of 25 years, double what was signed and agreed.
And this, contrary to the current legality and the reports issued by the Legal Council of the Region of Murcia.
It should be added that it was an extension of the contract that the company obtained at zero cost because it already paid in 2003 what the local government needed for projects such as El Batel Auditorium.
Today, the municipal group MC expected the union of the parties before a proposal that confirms the intention of MC to continue the process of review, monitoring and control of all municipal contracts.
In fact, since 2013, MC has presented various initiatives that have meant for the City and therefore, for all Cartagena, the recovery of more than 11 million euros in settlements that the company was forced to make, for the annuities From 2012 to 2014.
And is that, although the technicians declare that the extension of 2003 is null, thanks to the non approval of the motion, Hidrogea will have another five years of kindness to provide the service.
Nevertheless, the intention of MC was foreseeable that it would collide with the will of those who in previous legislatures had the responsibility to govern Cartagena.
During their term, these public servants prevailed the interests of certain mercantiles above the common interests of the citizenship.
A complacency that was further aggravated by the permissiveness adopted by allowing to fix water rates without any municipal contribution.
The disappointment, however, is appreciably superior with those other political groups that fly the flag of the pursuit of common interest, the promotion of social policy and disinterested work by the neighbor.
Once again, it is proved that one thing is the noun and another very different the verb;
It is not the same to defend a discourse to preach by example.
Today, it was a matter of showing the company that the writings of MC and CTSSP are unresolved and that the 25-year extension granted in 2003 and that would come into force in 2017 could be annulled.
MC does not understand the interest to distance the focus of interest in the objective described with the presentation of a motion that requests to continue doing what is already done.
We reiterate our commitment to Cartagena society, maintaining a coherent line that shows that it is not necessary to continue playing the game of municipal concessionaires, because we do not serve them but the Cartagena.
Once again we are forced to regret the attitude of the traditional parties to continue to turn their eyes on the entrepreneur and his benefit, overlooking the interests of the Carthaginians who placed their trust in them, neighbors who have to suffer the lack of loyalty and Courage to call themselves public representatives.
Today, Cartagena have failed again.
I wish it was the last time.
Source: MC
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