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The LEADER funds finance projects focused on promoting entrepreneurship and employment in rural areas and improving infrastructure and basic local services provided to its inhabitants.
The management of these is in charge of the Local Action Groups, which of the 4 that exist in the Region of Murcia, 2 act in the municipality of Lorca and are CAMPODER and INTEGRAL, being the City Council Lorca member of the local "partnership" of both public-private associations.
INTEGRAL manages the projects in the upper districts while CAMPODER manages the rest of the municipality.
Unfortunately, La Hoya and Tercia HAVE NOT BEEN CONSIDERED LEADER RURAL AREAS and any rural development project that arises from a public or private initiative in these areas will not be able to apply for LEADER aid.
The reason that justifies this exclusion is that both districts are heavily urbanized, touristy and industrialized territories.
They are equated to urban centers such as those of Lorca, Murcia or Cartagena, however there are hardly any urbanized nuclei and they are characterized by being a dispersed population.
They are also equated to very touristy coastal areas such as the coastal municipalities of the Mar Menor, guilas or Mazarr n, when they really have no coast and the foreigners in La Hoya and Tercia are not tourists but immigrants who come to work on agricultural tasks.
And to top it all, these districts are equated as if they had a level of industrialization similar to the industrial belts of Murcia and Cartagena, when that is not really the case.
It is precisely in these two districts that these LEADER rural development aid are most needed because it is the place where there is more dynamism and more entrepreneurship in the rural environment of the municipality of Lorca.
The comparative grievance with nearby municipalities that have a strong socioeconomic structure and have been included as LEADER territory in their entirety is evident, such as Puerto Lumbreras, Totana, Alhama de Murcia or Fuente- lamo.
These municipalities have much more population, a well-defined urban area, and more industrial and tourist activity than La Hoya and Tercia combined.
We encourage the City Council to actively collaborate with other competent public administrations in the development of the New Rural Development Program of the Murcia Region, which must be approved by the Regional Government and in which the criteria that have excluded La Hoya and Tercia regarding access to aid because they do not agree with reality.
From SOMOS REGI N Lorca we urge the Lorca City Council to fight and defend all the districts of the municipality and its inhabitants with equality and that for the next period of European LEADER funding include La Hoya and Tercia within Some Local Action Group of which the Lorca City Council is part of the decision-making process.
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Source: SOMOS REGIÓN Lorca
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