The mayors of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo, San Pedro del Pinatar, Visitation Martinez and Los Alcazares, Anastasio Bastida have signed a joint response to the motion filed by the Socialist parliamentary group in the Regional Assembly of Murcia on an urban moratorium the Mar Menor on the grounds that would "halt the activity and economic growth" as well as "meddling" in local competitions.
The text, which was read out this morning in the city of San Pedro del Pinatar its mayor, Visitation Martinez, accompanied by the mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo and government spokesman Los Alcázares, Cristina Sanchez, believes that the motion "tries to solve a problem of political coexistence in the city of Cartagena and we will not accept that to fix meddle in our municipal powers telling us how we manage and develop our municipalities."
The joint response of the three mayors recalls that the motion only refers to urban projects in Cartagena "so it must be the city of Cartagena which, if not agree, paralyzes these projects without harming the more than 70,000 inhabitants add Los Alcázares, San Javier and San Pedro del Pinatar ".
"The moratorium is harmful because it is an obstacle to our development at a time when we must harness the pull of economic recovery," say the three mayors ask the parliamentary groups in the Assembly that "do not support the motion of the PSOE , respecting municipal autonomy and to not be used as a way to solve the problems of governance that may be in the city of Cartagena. "
The mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo said that the PSOE has given "a new use to the Mar Menor to use demagogic way to fix an internal conflict."
Luengo recalled that San Javier works from the 70s with Subsidiary Norms and now finally is about to approve a General Plan can not invade our competence to decide on development that neighbors want for our town, and more at a time that there is a maximum effort and consensus through ITI del Mar Menor for preservation and care. "
Asked by reporters about Puerto Mayor, mayor of San Javier he reiterated its support for this infrastructure but made clear no to housing construction.
Luengo considered that the port on the Mediterranean Sea and the services and port infrastructure would entail would be a figure that would help generate opportunities and to break the seasonality ".
The mayor recalled that the port Tomás Maestre, the Mar Menor, "is the largest marina in Spain and probably the company in the area that suffers less seasonality".
He noted that the General Plan promotes the construction of hotels and tourist accommodations are those who, compared to residential use, help break this seasonality.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier