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- "We regret that the Councilor for Quality of Life has once again said that" for the time being, things will continue as they are ", but our Group will continue to insist, and will take another initiative to the next Plenary to get the service covered. of gravedigger in the evenings of the weekend as demanded by the funeral parlors of Cartagena that have asked the City Council to "take pity on the relatives and hire staff to cover the service during the evenings of the weekends and holidays"

- The spokesman for Citizens asks "if Mr. Calderón, in view of the new information published by the newspaper La Opinion, plans to rectify, admit that there are complaints, and reconsider his position."

On the occasion of the information published today by the newspaper La Opinion in which they echo the problem of dying in Cartagena on a Friday or Saturday afternoon, as it forces the family to spend two nights in the funeral home and pay 500 euros more, which is what it takes to spend one more night in the wake, the spokesman of the orange training, Manuel Padin, recalled that Citizens took this issue to the regular plenary of May 2016, and that the proposal was rejected thanks to the vote in against PSOE and MC, and thanks also to the abstention of the Popular Party.

Then, Citizens warned that the municipal cemeteries of Our Lady of Remedies, San Antonio Abad, Alumbres and San Ginés de la Jara were providing limited funeral services during weekends (only four hours a day).

In particular, the funeral service is only provided on Saturdays and Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

In this way, to bury a deceased who died on Saturday at 2:00 p.m., was and is forced to wait until Monday morning to bury him.

For this reason, the orange formation presented in the Plenary a motion by which the local government was urged to take the necessary actions to extend the burial schedule of the municipal cemeteries on weekends, so that in this way they could be made burials on Saturdays and Sundays in the afternoons.

The proposal was rejected by the parties that make up the government, and thanks also to the abstention of the Popular Party, being CTSSP-Podemos the only group that supported the initiative.

At that time, the Council of Health and Quality of Life, Francisco Calderón, intervened for the Government team, which sent the motion saying that "only to comment that the schedule of the cemeteries is right now, there is no complaint and no I consider the request. "

The Councilor for Quality of Life also lies in his statements today to La Opinión when he says that "until now I had not realized this problem because no Cartagena, or association, has transmitted any complaint", to which Manuel Padín has responded that "unless Mr. Calderón does not consider the councilors of Cartagena citizens is lying and he knows it, because more than a year ago we asked him in the House and we made him receive this complaint".

"We regret that Mr. Calderón has once again stated that" for the time being, things are going to continue as they are ", but our Group will continue to insist, and will take another initiative to the next Plenary to get the graveyard service covered in the afternoons In this sense, Manuel Padín says that what Ciudadanos denounced more than a year ago has been confirmed: that it is Cartagena's own funeral parishes that have asked the City Council to "take pity on family members and hire staff to cover the service during the weekends and holidays "as it has been published." The Citizen spokesperson asks "if Mr. Calderón, in view of the new information published by the La Opinión newspaper, think rectify, admit that there are complaints, and reconsider their position. "

It is about humanizing and helping people who are going through a terrible duel at times, especially when death occurs dramatically, or it is a young person, or with relatives residing outside the city, "if the City Council decides to pay attention to us will be avoiding costs and above all unnecessarily lengthen a moment of suffering in the duel, "said Manuel Padin, who believes that" incorporating a gravedigger could solve all this and recalled that "in all the grands Municipalities of the region buries the afternoons of the weekend.

Cartagena is the only place where you can not. "

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena