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The mayor, Jose Lopez, along with Deputy Mayor, Ana Belen Castejon and the Socialist spokesman of the Finance Committee, the Congress of Deputies, Pedro Saura, presented nine initiatives to develop projects in the fields of industry, culture and tourism.

The City of Cartagena, through the Socialist spokesman of the Finance Committee in the Chamber of Deputies, Pedro Saura, try to get an additional 80 million euros in the State Budget 2016, through nine amendments to the aim to develop projects that the municipality needs in the fields of industry, culture and tourism, as noted by the mayor, Jose Lopez;

Deputy Mayor, Ana Belen Castejon, and Rep own that have appeared this morning at a press conference.

All they have called the draft budget of the National Government as unsupportive and unfair to Cartagena.

According Saura it might not be a budget in which increased investment in infrastructure in general throughout the country, and get off at Cartagena and Murcia.

Therefore proposed supplementary items worth 80 million, such as the contribution of BAN Motors SEPI to Navantia Cartagena (15 million euros);

the Mediterranean goods Rail Corridor Murcia, Cartagena and Lorca (20 million euros);

adequacy of current station Cartagena for the high-speed line Murcia Cartagena (25 million euros);

rehabilitation of coastal batteries (15 million euros);

Rural Roads afforestation in Cartagena (2 million euros);

the plan of archaeological heritage and rehabilitation of the Cathedral of Santa Maria la Vieja (2 million euros);

Sociocultural Association Circo Teatro Apolo of El Algar (500 thousand euros);

Integral Plan of Mar Menor (5 million euros) and contribution to the Industrial Estate Camachos (SEPES) (10 million euros).

The mayor, Jose Lopez, be assured that you are sick of tease to Cartagena in the state budget every year and reflected the items appear as the AVE, which are never executed.

They fooled us with water for all and now I want to do with the Ave for fools,

So he thanked Pedro Saura's willingness to take these demands to the Congress of Deputies and expectant shown by the position taken by other Members before them, like the previous Mayor, Pilar Barreiro;

as he announced the request for an interview with the Minister of Development, Ana Pastor, to clarify the status of the project and other ministers AVE.

Deputy Mayor, Ana Belen Castejon, has criticized the president of the Community, Pedro Sanchez, bring to Cartagena the engine of economic growth in the region, and this is not seeing anywhere, neither in the state budget or expected in regional.

Saura, who has offered to continue bringing claims Cartagena Congress, said that if there is a change of government, the AVE not come to Cartagena until 2019 or 2020, as yet to be approved or the construction project.

According to the deputy, it is not clear that having money every year, no sections are executed, such as the Murcia-Cartagena line, waiting for clarification on what is going to do in Murcia, which could advance the project .

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena