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The Socialist Councillor Maria Ponce announced today that the PSOE will oppose any increase above the Consumer Price Index (CPI) of public money for the provision of municipal water service for the coming year.
Ponce announced that next October 9 Council is hosting a semi-public company Aguas de Lorca where the PP mayor, Francisco Jodar, could herald a rise in water bill of around 6%.
The socialist mayor described the possible rise of "unjustified" because the PP could argue the same based on the implementation of renovation and replacement of water distribution systems, where most of these actions have been funded by the State through Plan E.
Among them, Ponce listed the work done in Alberquilla Road (turret), a district of San Fernando, Avda Armed Forces and Apolonia crossing, crossing Old Port, and the streets Abenhalaj, Admiral Aguilar, Tinkers Lane, Mayor Ortega Melgares, Fajardo Bravo, poet or priest Emilio Castellar Gimeno García Navarro.
All these works have involved an investment of around a million deeuros by the State.
Therefore, the mayor described as "logical" that, based on the very strong socialist government investment in Spain in Lorca, Lorca next year, the relief may notice a water bill.
The PSOE mayor also recalled that since the arrival of Jódar to power, it has approved a price increase public water of 13.5% when the company closed the last financial year with a profit of nearly one million euros (968 000) .
In that sense, Ponce said his party will not enter the profit margin of the closed part of the company.
Instead, he asked that the capital return that affects the public "cut" that the bill may have a decreased "sensitive" because they will have to cope with it the 6,600 families who now suffer the tragedy of unemployment in Lorca.
Moreover, the council called "fool" the mayor of PP has requested a study, to be paid for with money from all of Lorca, to check the impact on business lorquina the expected tax increases that the Government of Spain , "when you know perfectly that the government of Zapatero expected a drop of five points in the corporation tax for SMEs that create or maintain employment and rising incomes will not affect work.
In any case, he said, the tax burden will be lower than Aznar left in 2004.
Straight, Ponce said that if both cares Jódar economic situation of enterprises in Lorca, "to adopt once and for all" application of a tariff, industrial and agricultural water "that the Socialists two years been demanding, but "without that rate resulting in an increase in the receipt of the citizens."
Source: PSOE Lorca
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