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The Municipal Group Socialist councilor, Andrea Periago, has reported that "the reason for my appearance this morning is due to concerns from the Socialist Party overwhelms us to the situation that currently the Department of Women".

Periago recalled that "Lorca socialists have had the opportunity to form teams of municipal government for 28 years, one of its objectives emancipatory empowering women and combating discrimination. So began a series of interventions in favor of promote this emancipation and eliminate the obstacles that prevented the exercise of their constitutional rights. also created the Department of Women, being for many years the only one in the Region of Murcia, which caused it to be a pioneer in the way of understanding situation of women and how to intervene to overcome the most adverse situations. This led to the formation of technical equipment, work spaces, tools and intervention methods to promote the active presence of women in society. "

Social responsibility has added that "results of these 28 years were the creation of the Department of Women, as previously noted, studies on the situation of women in Lorca equipping of personnel skilled in the art, the development of equality plans, the implementation of a multidisciplinary team at the service of women and equality, continuous improvement of municipal budgets for women, the constitution of the Municipal Council of Women, the promotion of a web of social institutions partners involved with the woman, infrastructure provision, subsidies and promotion of female associative. also created the shelter, provision of infrastructure to the woman and the Cava Street building, the training center of the street Marmolico Motorhome and training districts. "

Lorca The mayor has emphasized that "all these efforts amount to an ongoing commitment to women and equality. We have seen and from the Municipal Government held by the Popular Party has been moving away from such policies, taking a step as regressive as the elimination of participatory bodies such as the Municipal Council of Women. To this is joined by the continued decline in the budget for this Department, resulting in the dismissal of the social worker CAVI, the reduction of working with the teachers of the shelter, the abolition of local employment center with the consequent dismissal of the counselor and administrative assistant work, dismissal of the coordinator of equal opportunity plan and the drastic reduction of the activities of the associations from seven to three months year. "

Finally, Periago Lopez stressed that "from the Municipal Group Socialist wonder where it wants to bring the current team of government policies towards women. What seems obvious is that not only move forward if we go back to the situation of more ten years. sorry check that most directly responsible for this do not believe in equality, to give them equal. We fear that one day we will wake up checking the policies for women and equality were things of the past and progressive governments that took the city of Lorca. "

Source: PSOE Lorca