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The councilor of the United Left-Greens in the City of Lorca, Gloria Martín, has demanded today the main political parties of Lorca PP and PSOE to defend the interests of small farmers in the north of the municipality "with the same strength" that demand water from Tajo-Segura transfer to the garden of Lorca.
"We would like us to be equally farrucos before the permanent 'zero transfer' suffered by the irrigators of La Paca or Zarcilla de Ramos," he explained.
Martin has lamented that both the mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos (PSOE), and the leader of the opposition, Fulgencio Gil (PP), engage in a war to see "who screams louder" when defending interests of the local agribusiness, while "none of them moves a finger to solve the water deficit that affects the dryland agriculture of the municipality."
In that sense, Martin has lamented that the mayor of Lorca has requested a meeting with the Secretary of State for the Environment to show his disagreement for the non-approval of a new water transfer for irrigation, while "he has not yet been able to accompany to the small farmers of the Campo Alto irrigation community to the Segura Hydrographic Confederation to demand sufficient water flows for the maintenance of their agricultural activity, "thus violating their own electoral program.
The councilwoman of IU-Verdes also recalled that, given the pressure exerted by managers of the community of irrigators of Lorca, last November the PP withdrew an initiative in the Regional Assembly with which this party intended to request the Government of the Nation "solutions and search for water for the high districts of Lorca".
"It seems to us of extreme hypocrisy that the PP says that the water of the Tagus belongs to everyone when this party bows its head as soon as it is necessary to demand a fair, solidary and equitable distribution of the resources of the municipality itself."
Gloria Martín has transferred the "deep malaise" and "disappointment" of the farmers of the Highlands of Lorca to the attitude of the main local parties that "systematically marginalize their claims."
"They feel none at all," he said.
For the mayor, the water war is primarily based on electoral interests.
"That the PP appeals to victimism to spur its barn of votes in the garden of Lorca is the usual," said Martin, who regretted that the PSOE joins this strategy "with which he will not win anything", instead of Maintain a "coherent" position that meets the interests of all irrigation groups in the municipality equally "although some are more powerful than others," he concluded.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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