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A commission chaired by an opposition councilor will investigate the acquisitions made by the City of Cartagena since 2006 in the whole block of the Administrative Building of San Miguel.

This has been approved by the Corporation unanimously of all the municipal groups in an extraordinary plenary session that was held this afternoon at the request of the popular municipal group.

The mayor, José López, whose petition for disapproval had previously been withdrawn by the popular group, regretted that this motion, similar to the one he had proposed in the morning in the ordinary plenary, had not then been approved with the votes against Of the PP and abstentions of CTSSP and Citizens, forcing them to meet a few hours later to approve the same thing.

The spokesman of the popular municipal group, Francisco Espejo, said that the commission of inquiry is justified by the speed of the operation of the Hotel Peninsular in which multiple procedures were done in a few days and the confusing explanations given by the Government.

And he has asked that the commission be chaired by a councilor of his group.

On the part of the Government, the Councilor of Transparency, Maria Jose Soler, has indicated that it has been done twice what could have been done in one, approving this same motion proposed by the mayor this morning and explained that the acquisition of the Peninsular Was a pending issue since 2006 in which the need for its expropriation was established.

The spokeswoman for Cartagena Sí Se Puede, Pilar Marcos, has indicated that "governing is establishing priorities" and that the municipal government had preferred to buy the Hotel Peninsular before the old Jail of San Antón, regardless of the interest of the neighbors and it is necessary Clarify the circumstances of this file.

Manuel Padín, a spokesman for Citizens, has been in favor of investigating acquisitions throughout the block and thanked that the mayor's disapproval was withdrawn because he should not be "shot" without hearing before, showing support for consensus and truth To clarify what happened.

For her part, the spokeswoman of the socialist group, Obdulia Gómez, explained that they had voted yes in the morning and in the afternoon, because they would not hinder the creation of commissions of inquiry, as they have always done, both in government and in Opposition, and that they are in favor of clarifying things and against obscurantism.

It has closed the intervention, María José Soler, MC, ensuring that the conditioning of the Hotel Peninsular to expand the Administrative Building will be done without delay.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena