The second deputy spokesman of the PSOE in the City of Lorca, Isidro Abellán has again demanded Gil Jódar to "put the batteries", work to "finish the interior conditioning" of the Auditorium and accelerate the constitution of IFELOR so that "as soon as inaugurate, the Auditorium and the fair center is endowed with content from the minute one ".
Abellán stressed that "the economic and social future of Lorca is closely linked to the success of new facilities such as the Auditorium and the Palace of Fairs and Congresses of Santa Quiteria", so "it is urgent to complete the completion of the works, and Of course, having a good project prepared so that both the Auditorium and the Palace of Fairs and Congresses have content ".
"We must move towards the horizon of a Lorca that has to return to be a reference in the celebration of fairs and congresses, collecting the witness and the experience of the past to grow on that base and aspire to that Lorca, city of fairs and congresses".
Opinion that, without going any further, shared the PSOE in a recent meeting with CECLOR and Chamber of Commerce.
However, Abellán has lamented that "once again, we are forced to appear publicly to call the attention of the Mayor and his government team" that "something is wrong" when "we continue without news of the equipment works of the inside the Auditorium ".
The socialist mayor has returned to show his concern for the paralysis that affects the refurbishment of the interior of the Auditorium.
"A month ago they told us that they would start hiring immediately, an answer that has been a lie more than we have been accustomed to this PP government team."
"Today there is only what you see: the shell, the structure, and we are going to say it very clearly to the Mayor and his councilors: Lorca do not want an audience like the one in Puerto Lumbreras."
Abellán has warned again that "the justification for these works ends next December, and as they do not finish it, or do not get a new extension, they tell us how the audience plans to pay".
"It has been more than a year and a half that there are 7 million euros flying around the Auditorium, and it has been announced several times by Mr. López Miras, but it seems that these seven million euros have not just landed in Lorca, and we do not know why".
Regarding the objective of giving content to the Auditorium and the Palace of Fairs and Congresses, Abellán has expressed concern about the paralysis surrounding the drafting of the statutes of IFELOR, an institution that for the PSOE "is fundamental, and without whose statutes to be impossible to start walking. "
Abellán has ensured that the PSOE "we have a defined project of what must be IFELOR, institution that has to start before the auditorium is finished."
Abellán assures that "IFELOR should already be constituted", working on a "realistic as well as ambitious" programming, that works to occupy these new facilities with "one or two professional events monthly as objective of good operation of the fairgrounds, regardless of the schedule that the Auditorium may have ".
The socialist mayor says that "we need an IFELOR that works for Lorca to shine again, so that Lorca again hold fairs like those that in the past placed us on the map of the municipalities that organized major fairs and events."
"IFELOR must elevate the already established fairs such as SEPOR, FERICAB or FERAMUR, at the same time that it has to recover fairs that were important in their day, such as the Salón del Estudiante, which stopped being held in 2012; Expoflor, which reached be among the three most important nationally in the cut flower sector, or the new and used car show, "said Isidro Abellán.
"In the PSOE we have project, capacity and above all, hope to make Lorca a reference city in the celebration of fairs," said the mayor, who has advanced the intention of the PSOE to promote, from the municipal government, the creation of new fairs such as a Cofrade Hall, which could be a point of reference at the national level of meetings of Holy Week brotherhoods, and of promotion of our Biblical-Passional parades;
or a Leisure and Free Time Salon, a Trade Show, with which to reactivate the commercial activity of the municipality, or why not a Fair of Urban and Cultural Tourism, fair specialized in the exhibition and promotion of tourist cities that stand out for your cultural heritage.
"Lorca has to become a benchmark at the national level in the realization of fairs and congresses, only with the foregoing today could generate a program with which to give content almost every fortnight to our Auditorium and Palace of Fairs and Congresses, and all without to have other types of activities that would also be welcome (school, senior, associative meetings, etc.) ".
"In the PSOE of Lorca we have all the capacity for work, all the imagination and all the illusion that the PP has lacked in its 12 years of government to carry out this project."
Source: PSOE Lorca