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The popular councilor, Carolina Palazón, CTSSP-We councilwoman, Teresa Sanchez and the Citizen spokeswoman in Cartagena, Manuel Padín have appeared today at a press conference, at the Palace Hall, to take stock of the nefarious management in health Public to the problems arising from the lack of control and management of the animals that inhabit the urban environment of Cartagena, as well as the potential plagues that have occurred and can occur in the municipality.
The three groups of the opposition have agreed to demand that the City of Cartagena is really committed to this problem, for health, economic, ethical and citizen coexistence reasons, and have ensured that in the event that the situation is not reversed, they will demand The necessary political responsibilities.
The popular councilwoman Carolina Palazón has lamented the null political will of the municipal government to work for animal welfare in the municipality of Cartagena.
At the beginning of the legislature, the Bureau of Animal Welfare was created to advance the benefit and defense of animals, however, the Government is acting behind this table of which we form all political parties and groups.
Palazón has said that "the Government has abandoned the Public Health Area and is pursuing defenseless animals. We have a record of a letter from the General Directorate of Public Health to know the situation of the feral cat colonies, but in that writing is not asked The collection of animals ".
"Today the opposition in block we denounce that the municipal government is taking steps back in the defense of the animals in Cartagena and we will not allow it. Therefore, from the political groups of the City council we are going to work from the unit and the force for To be clarified as soon as possible and to require the Councilor of Health to assume his responsibility once and for all. "
The councilor of CTSSP (Cartagena Si Se Puede) explained that "two days ago began to collect cats from the colony of blue balconies, a colony controlled, managed and sterilized by the Association Four Cats. Taking this capture by the CATAD, since in addition this colony is legalized, as it were, by the previous government. What is being done is an injustice, is an action that has nothing to do with public health, since without These cats, the windlass would be full of rats and cockroaches. "
According to the councilor, "this action demonstrates, once again, the little knowledge that this government has of feral cats and the ethology of these animals, cats do not attack, it is the cleanest and most careful animal there is, and even more so if Are protected and controlled by an association. "
Sánchez recalled that there are already many cities in Spain "that care for their urban colonies as in Madrid, Barcelona or Zaragoza," and mentioned "the archaeological ruins of Rome that we like so much, with their cats walking in the Roman Forum, that Is the example that would have to take to Cartagena to take care of its feral cats in relation to our archeology and our cultural heritage, for these cities, the colonies, are a tourist claim more ".
"What CATAD is doing these days shows again the backward mentality and the absolute lack of interest in advancing in animal matter, there is no human way to advance in the Animal Welfare Bureau, to carry out an ordinance, we are hampered by "Said CTSSP Councilwoman, who has demanded that" those cats return to their neighborhoods, their colony, and the Four Cats Association be respected and let. "The CTSSP Councilwoman has ended her speech by citing Arthur Schopenhauer: "Commiseration with animals is intimately united with the goodness of character;
So that it can be said, for sure, that whoever is cruel to animals can not be a good person. "
For its part, the spokesperson for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, has indicated that "there seems to be a persecution, the Government, through CATAD, is focusing the supervision and sanitary control of animals only in an area controlled by Associations, and we do not understand it, and from here we ask that immediately and with the urgency that requires the concern on the part of our sanitary authorities, and the regional ones, to proceed to analyze all the colonies of cats in the municipal term of Cartagena, in all Neighborhoods and councils, if there is danger in what is carefully and controlled, I do not want to imagine what can happen in the rest if this is how they paint it. "
"The Municipal Group of Citizens has already requested in writing to have access to that official note of the Directorate General of Public Health of the regional administration that has requested, on grounds of complaints, that CATAD catches cats in a controlled area, and also We are going to ask the General Directorate to transfer these complaints to us, "Padín reported.
"While focusing all their attention on this, little is being done to ethically control the populations of pigeons in Cartagena, and this municipal neglect brings a lot of problems to neighbors and our heritage due to the dirt, in addition to these animals, and Needless to say, they do pose a probable risk as disease carriers. "
The Citizens' spokesman also highlighted the paralysis and blockade of both the Animal Welfare Bureau and the CATAD Research Commission, "it is public and notorious that they do not exist, they are not functional with their infinite dialogues, and in terms of Commission all we have to do is pray to the virgin, I do not know the time that has passed without receiving the documentation to start investigating this center, and the months pass and we continue waiting and waiting. "
"We, as a Municipal Citizens Group, if this continues on the path that goes, we will have to go to the Prosecutor's Office directly and period."
Regarding the modification of the municipal ordinance referring to domestic animals, Manuel Padín explained that "until the regional animal protection law does not come out, it is not prudent to undertake the new ordinance since it must, of course, be subject to the law Of superior rank ".
According to Manuel Padín, "Once we obtain some documentation regarding the latest proceedings, and the rest of the matters we have dealt with, we will ask the relevant responsibilities to those who correspond, I want to remember that we sit here most of the plenary session, and we will do what we have What to do when the time comes. "
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena
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