- "Some want to make a quick funeral for reasons that only they will know, but we do not bet for that funeral because in the end the dead will always be ours, and at this moment liquidating the society can imply a destabilization that prevents to finalize the different projects that are are realizing and also leaving an uncertain future for the many that are about to realize, "said the spokesman of Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín.
Cartagena, Friday, October 13.
On the occasion of the information published by the newspaper La Verdad in which it is ensured that there are discrepancies between the two parties that make up the municipal government, PSOE and Citizen Movement (MC), regarding the future of the Municipal Society Casco Antiguo and its situation economic, Citizen spokesman in Cartagena, Manuel Padin, maintains in relation to the 2.3 million euros that Puerta Nueva owes to the City and that given the situation will be difficult to charge, that "the current accounting of society has been consistent and has had the loss of that amount, had this money been available in anticipation of funds the economic situation of the society would be buoyant, much more positive, but it has not been so, and therefore in the 2016 annual accounts have been calculated a profit only for the value of 212,000 euros. "
For Manuel Padín and contrary to what, according to the newspaper La Verdad, PSOE and CTSSP-Podemos defend, "the time has come to bet on that municipal society, it is now when its economic horizon begins to clear and its capacity to offer a good service to Cartagena's interests is more than likely. "
Padín explained that "we are facing a society, which is 100% of the City Council, with dandruff or dandruff, with all the good and bad, is of all Cartagena, and we have to make every effort to make it end up becoming a profitable and sustainable instrument that accelerates the economic engine of this city. "
"If for 20 months is being managed, and is making a bet for its resurgence, despite the economic crisis that there was, do not come to me now telling stories, when in the last 20 years neither PSOE nor PP they said nothing, when in the last twenty years accounting was apparently perfect, a wonder, nothing happened, and nobody saw anything, and now we have to believe that in the last months is when everything has turned upside down? asks the Citizens' spokesperson.
Manuel Padin insists that there are many people who want to "make a quick funeral for reasons that only they will know, but we do not bet on that funeral because in the end the dead will always be ours, and at this moment liquidating society can be a destabilization that prevent the finalization of the different projects being carried out and also leave an uncertain future for the many that are yet to be realized.
The leader of the orange formation in Cartagena assures that his group continues betting that the current direction of Casco Antiguo take forward the society, to finish the 7 projects that it has initiated, like the works of the place that is being built in the Monte Sacro, adaptation actions in the University District, the flushing of the facades, the continuation and development of the International Campus of Archeology 'City of Cartagena', and its participation in the European project MAPS, which entails the recovery of the Castle of the Moors and part of the necessary social regeneration of the district of Los Mateos.
In addition, it is necessary to reactivate the sales of plots in Monte Sacro, especially those that give to the facade of Alfonso XIII, the wall of Earth, "all this can not be paralyzed at the moment with that pretended and we believe, irresponsible, disarticulation premature of society ".
"What we are not going to consent to is that more than 20 years of mismanagement are judged for the last 20 months of good management, and that some of them ask us for explanations to those who have just arrived when the only thing we are doing is support, clarify and respect citizens, because otherwise it would be chaos, it is a fact that without us there would not have been budgets in the last two years, that is what Citizens have done: to put coherence, "said Manuel Padín who has recalled that without the approved accounts, without the economic stability that his Municipal Group has provided, "it would not be possible to have negotiated downward interest on existing loans in Casco Antiguo."
In addition, in the opinion of the spokesman, "once and for all must be notarized the San Miguel Building, which has contributed to have suspicions, different accounting interpretations, and there are differences."
On the other hand, the spokesman of Cs Cartagena, asks if "someone has been thinking about the young investors who have bought in the area of ​​Barrio Universitario, in what situation would they stay if everything is frozen, or is that we want to turn everything into water and leave again? Manuel Padin believes that you can not crush the poor old town, the silver cup of Cartagena, you can not forget that there is the Muram, the Amphitheater, the University, the Central Cinema, a series of buildings the most castiza area of ​​Cartagena, let's not forget that reality full of possibilities that can channel the society Casco Antiguo.
Finally, Manuel Padín recalled that in any case, and asked at the last Board of Directors of Casco Antiguo, "the company, by agreement of the board and of the shareholders' meeting, can be dissolved at any time, or dismiss any charge, or reward, so that I do not understand what problem there is or what interests and why there are so many rush to hold a funeral. "
Previous stage of the Municipal Society Casco Antiguo
As for the information that the insolvency administrator has requested to liquidate the promoter Puerta Nueva, with 22 million debt and in suspension of payments for three, the municipal spokesman of Cs has indicated that "these questions do not surprise us, they are well known , are the years of the PPSOE, the years of abundance and the rollers, looked like the happy 20's, "Padin said." There were no problems for bipartisan accomplice ... "
"But today we also have the obligation to put things right: this university neighborhood had to be born, despite all the complications it had, expropriations, and with much of the Old Town in the purest ruin, because today , possibly the rats would continue to jump on the lots if nothing had been done, to Caesar what is Caesar and to God what is of God, "says Manuel Padin.
For the municipal spokesperson of the orange formation, "the action that was done on the part of Casco Antiguo, although some families were damaged and harmed, because they always pay the humble, was absolutely necessary," and asks not to forget what the University has supposed for the Historic Center of Cartagena, "that the tree does not prevent us from seeing the forest, it was fundamental that the center of Cartagena was a truly university space, it was impossible to act there, and probably they were very short because they should have given more face facade to the San Diego street, applying the compensations that would have been required, but to have given the vision of the neighborhood to the street San Diego, and that knows it many Cartagena ".
According to Padín, that action would have been "the resurgence of the city of Cartagena".
"It is necessary to remember that the arrival of the University was an essential achievement, it brought with it the rehabilitation of historical sites, and its dance partner was that annex which should be the Campus, which at the time was surrounded by ruins and abandonment", has remembered Manuel Padín.
The Citizens' spokesman insists, "everyone in Cartagena knows what has happened, such as what happened with the Central Cinema in the times of the PPSOE, and whoever has done so will have to pay it but the positive balance must be put on the balance and the negative, and work from here onwards so that we do not make the same mistakes again and undertake the necessary work to solve the problems of today with a strong and productive Casco Antiguo society. "
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena