The municipal group MC will present at the next plenary session of the City Council of Cartagena, which will be held on Thursday, February 23, a motion to establish a commission of inquiry that studies the actions and omissions made since 2006 relating to land use Administrative center that surrounds the San Miguel building, and in particular the acquisition by expropriation of the property where the Peninsular Hotel was located, agreed in the Local Government Board on December 29 of last year.
Thus, the proposal to be presented by the spokesman of the municipal group, Francisco Calderón, will have among its objectives the study of the relationship and comparison with the acquisitions of the rest of the buildings and plots affected by their classification in the Special Plan for Management and Protection Of the Historic Complex (PEOPCH).
Expropriation of the farm started more than ten years ago by the PP
The agreement adopted by the Government Board to acquire the property located on Calle Cuatro Santos, consummated the expropriation of the property started more than ten years ago, by decree of July 5, 2006 of the then councilor of Urbanism, Agustín Guillen, of the PP.
This property, classified in the PEOPCH with an administrative endowment, was acquired to the municipal patrimony by the amount of 505.609 €, according to evaluation report issued by municipal technician, of 22 of December of 2016.
Calderón said that "it is one of two buildings that were pending incorporation to municipal heritage since in 2006 the PEOPCH allocated the entire block that surrounds the administrative building of San Miguel to administrative use, all demolished that were Acquired previously ".
Also, the spokesman of the Municipal Group MC recalled that days after this acquisition was published in the press that a candidate on the MC list to municipal elections, specifically the number 12, was owner of the property, and various parties have cast doubt About which this operation could benefit you.
"In particular, it was first discussed illegality due to the incompatibility of MC's councilors, after the lack of a mandatory report and in later dates of the excessive speed with which the operation was closed, to derive in various reports regarding complaints of The unions for not being consulted or doubts about the valuation of the property made by municipal technicians, "added Calderón.
"As the days went by," continued Francisco Calderón, "the initial accusations regarding incompatibility or lack of reports were disappearing, the complaints of the unions have been denied by the leaders of these, and there is no longer talk of Illegalities, but of 'vertiginous procedures' and 'concealment' ".
Transparency by the municipal group MC
The spokesman of the municipal group MC has pointed out that the media controversy and the political use of an administrative act, in this case an expropriation, "has been able to generate doubts and uncertainties in Cartagena that must be clarified in order to safeguard the institution, those who have Acted in the file and to make clear what has been the Government's action in this administrative proceeding. "
Calderon stressed that "it is healthy to flee the obscurantism of other stages and with the aim that the citizens can have a full knowledge of this operation, we promote the constitution of a commission of investigation."
"In addition, due to responsibility, we are obliged to do so, to enable a real control of the action, fleeing the politics of rumor, and to prevent the image of officials acting on the record can be challenged by political criticism ", Concluded Francisco Calderón.
For all this, the municipal group MC, despite the fact that on the first day that this expropriation was asked the mayor, Jose López, appeared before the media and offered all the explanations, and that later the opposition groups, some Several times, have reviewed the files and obtained copies, considers that any shadow of doubt in relation to the municipal action should be eradicated.
Source: MC