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Citizen spokesman in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, said that "since Citizens we want to help and push to safeguard the interests of Cartagena, and we understand that the Community must offer all facilities to the local Administration to be able to undertake in the future work To build the park that is planned to do, not only with the transfer of its shares of Podecasa, but with the exemption of the autonomic rates for the transportation of toxic waste "

In May of this year, the City of Cartagena, through the mayor of Cartagena, José López, formally requested the Minister of Finance, Andrés Carrillo, to transfer the shares held by the regional administration in the company Polígono para el Desarrollo Of Cartagena (Podecasa).

In exchange, the Consistory of Cartagena would take over the entire debt (the unsatisfied part of the Community, close to one million euros).

In this way the City of Cartagena would be the only shareholder and would enable its dissolution to advance in this way in the decontamination of the land.

This area of ​​Cartagena has been isolated for 50 years.

The neighbors of the neighborhood of Torreciega, where the greater social activity of the council of El Hondón is concentrated, has been all those years, demanding that some administration works to reverse the marginalization and the contamination of their lands.

The activity of Potasas y Derivados in 2001, or Española del Zinc in 2009 and the transfer of the activity of Bunge Ibérica, already belong to the industrial history of Cartagena but strong winds continue to carry dangerous heavy metals in the air, and there is still a Justification of public health concern among the inhabitants.

The goal that has been marked by the City Council is to convert this space into a large green area in the future by building a park and Citizens want to control that we are taking the necessary steps to achieve it.

The spokesman for the orange formation in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, said: "Since Citizens we understand that the Community, given this background, should offer all the facilities to the local Administration to be able to undertake in the future the works to build the park, not Only with the transfer of their property, but exempt the local coffers from the payment of the autonomic rates for the transportation of the toxic waste that is in those lands and in this way make viable the environmental recovery project in this area.

Manuel Padin has informed that he has already transferred to "the fellows in the Regional Assembly all the relative information in this matter, so that they study the most pertinent way that the Departments of Finance and Environment will pronounce on its plans related to these Land in El Hondón and the company Podecasa, and if they will do everything possible to facilitate the City of Cartagena their efforts to decontaminate the area. "

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena