Councillor for Sports, Alonso Gomez, along with Luis Carlos García Conesa, spokesman for Citizens Movement and the Socialist Manuel Torres, have appeared together this morning to explain the unanimous position of the municipal corporation's response to the Spanish Olympic Committee after moving that will officially Cartagena eligible for the organization of the Mediterranean Games of 2017.
Gomez noted that, while respecting the decision of the Executive Committee of the COE, disagree with it because, first, consider that the City has not breached any term that prevents Cartagena nominate and second, we can not accept that we exclude COE without knowing the basic outline of the Cartagena project in which we work give yourself about a year ago.
Sports Councilman recalled that the Cartagena project has the backing of the Autonomous Community with the accession of 8 municipalities in the region and institutions like the University.
For this reason, Gomez has announced that next Monday will be sent to the president of the COE and the Executive Committee of the project a basic report Cartagena 2017 to ask him to reconsider the option of Cartagena.
We choose equal to Tarragona to be candidates for the organization of the games in 2017 because we believe that Cartagena can take chances, said.
Gómez Alonso also stressed that if the response is not satisfactory, the intention to organize a Mediterranean Games will go beyond 2017.
Both Luis Carlos García Conesa and Manuel Torres has shown support and PSOE Citizens Movement for Cartagena continues to have options for organizing the Games.
Cone added that in his opinion, the position of president of the COE is biased because it has excluded Cartagena without knowing the application or the project, so we ask for a fair and equitable process to compete with our private candidacy equal, above.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena