Hours prior to the proclamation of the twenty-sixth edition of the Festival of Carthaginians and Romans, the mayor of Cartagena, Jose Lopez, said this morning at the regional space COPE to trumpet the holidays, the best in the Mediterranean in my opinion, is an honor that I have made ​​the Federation troops and legions of Carthaginians and Romans do not deserve. Only 100 days as mayor is little time to earn this privilege.
Lopez has referred to the intention of getting the Declaration of International Tourist Interest for the holidays. We must work in concert with the Federation to increase the number of participants.
Let's enjoy these ten days and then have time to get in the task, it has continued the mayor of the city.
Carthaginians and Romans is a reference for tourism in the city, the mayor said that Cartagena wants to live in the past, we must make the future of our past.
Asked about the past, the municipal councilor said things that have been made, but not at the right pace.
A city that receives 70% of tourism in the region, we think, at least, the city should receive 40% or 50% of what it produces.
But this is not the case.
Lopez has referred to the strategic plan for tourism until 2017 publicly announced by the Minister of Tourism recently. Cartagena is out of this plan.
It is in religious tourism, when Spain was born to Christianity through the port of Santiago.
As for the golf tourism in the area of Cartagena have the best course in Europe, La Manga Club.
As regards football tourism, the city of Murcia it has been favored hogging 70% of the budget for 33 years.
Even in wine tourism, recognizing municipalities as Jumilla, Yecla and Bullas, the field of Cartagena is also worth your space.
Lopez has complained that the Ministry does not prioritize the sun and beach tourism and cultural tourism. We need a push to be the engine of the region and the region.
ARRIVAL AVE AND SITUATION "OF HEALTH IN CARTAGENA
Regarding the visit yesterday the Minister of Development, Francisco Bernabé, the Palace Hall of Cartagena, Lopez has said that the interests of the whole region should be above a particular part of the citizenship of the same, adding the first Murcia city councilor that are in your right to want the underground AVE, which could lead to a standstill by judicial issues five or six years.
But this would slow the arrival of the AVE to the city of Murcia but not to the region, not to Cartagena, since only the construction of bypass Reguerón involving the construction of a branch of the atura 1.4 kms would be required Beniel .
Lopez recalled that the AVE could be in Cartagena in 2017, as Bernabe said that the drafting Reguerón for the bypass would be completed by December 2015 and the Declaration of Environmental Impact between 2016 and 2017.
In another vein, the mayor expressed his disappointment at the situation in the area of Health in health II. The two basic pillars of a democratic state are the Health and Education.
S i there something that you can not play with the health is, after pointing out some of the shortcomings suffered by the District of Cartagena, l as beds are in the hospital corridors St. Lucia;
primary care is the worst of the Autonomous Community;
the ratio of beds per inhabitant is less than the regional average;
doctors serve 80 people a day, etc.
These deficiencies and grievances have been asking the mayor ¿why only punishes Cartagena?
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena