The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, held this morning a meeting with the government delegate, Antonio Sánchez-Solís, in which he took advantage to claim more Civil Guard troops in the municipality, especially in the barracks of El Albujón , Which also serves La Aljorra, Pozo Estrecho or Miranda.
"The scope of action of the Civil Guard in the field of Cartagena is very broad and with the number of troops we have is not enough.
We need the Government of Spain to respond to the requests that we and the neighbors have been doing for years.
The delegate of the Government is fully aware of this need and has committed to increasing the workforce progressively, "said Castejón.
The first mayor of Cartagena has proposed a new framework of local financing that helps to alleviate the lack of resources of municipalities, to meet the skills that are forced to assume improperly.
"We agree on the urgency of providing more resources to local administrations.
Likewise, we agree that if the financing of the Autonomous Community on the part of the State improves, it will be able to take care of services that at the moment we are forced to cover from the city councils, "declared the mayoress.
Infrastructures
Also, Castejón has reviewed with Sánchez-Solís all the actions that the central administration has pending resolve in the municipality.
"Cartagena can not afford new delays in the arrival of the AVE.
Equally important is the connection with the Mediterranean Corridor or the need to improve the local network. "
The mayor has reiterated the importance of the municipality with characteristics such as Cartagena, as it has the largest industrial pole in the Region, the most attractive tourist offer, the only polytechnic university in the Autonomous Community and a very competitive horticultural sector Must have railway infrastructures that allow it to continue growing and generating employment, on equal terms with our competitors.
Water
Ana Belén Castejón has also asked Sánchez-Solís for greater speed in the administrative procedures that facilitate the water to the irrigators of the field of Cartagena.
"I have taken advantage of to move the concerns that the farmers of my land manifest to me every day, because we are going through an unprecedented period of drought that needs urgent actions on the part of all the administrations," he said.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena