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The councilor of this training, Gloria Martín, demands to know how the 26 million euros that the central government has allocated to the reindustrialization of Lorca after the earthquakes of 2011 through the Plan Reindus have been invested.

It also calls for the creation of a mesh of polygons in deputations that allows to walk towards a model of transformation industry that creates and redistributes wealth, generates jobs and fixes the population in the rural environment.

07.03.17.

The Councilor of Left United Greens Lorca, Gloria Martín, today asked the municipal government team to carry out a detailed study of the current situation of local industry in order to implement an effective management model that promotes and Invigorate investment in activities in line with technological trends of the future.

The mayor regretted that, according to data from the INFO business panel, only 7.5% of the companies located in Lorca are technology-based, compared to 11.5% of the regional average.

Martín also explained that Lorca is the third most important city of the autonomous community and yet it only houses five of the top 100 companies in the Region compared to the 31 that live in the municipality of Murcia, the 14 that do in Cartagena, or the 12 in Molina de Segura.

In her analysis, the councilor of IU-Greens pointed out that the sectoral structure of contracting in Lorca shows how the agricultural sector is at the top of the contracts practiced, with 70.8% of the total.

The service sector absorbs another 23.7%, while the industry has significantly reduced its contribution in the last decade and is now reduced to 3.2%.

Sectors such as textiles, tanning or pottery, engines of Lorca's economy during the end of the 20th century, are now practically reminiscent.

Its condition of eminently agricultural municipality also determines a poor quality in the employment, with low salaries and high seasonality and temporality.

In the latter case, in Lorca temporary contracts represent 95.33% of the total.

A figure above those registered at the national level (91.93%) and regional (93.65%).

"To relegate ourselves to being a municipality mainly generating raw materials, with little added value, condemns us to impoverishment," said Martin for whom Lorca "should be able to promote a food processing industry that place it at the head of the sector in the Region Of Murcia ".

Another particularly relevant fact is the fact that the affiliation of workers to Social Security has plummeted in recent years, namely 5,762 members in the last decade.

All this reveals an outdated and decadent economic model that condemns the municipality to high levels of unemployment and job insecurity and closes its expectations of future.

It also demonstrates, according to Martin, the "inability" of local governments to stimulate productive sectors despite the investment of 26 million euros from the Central Government to boost the reindustrialization of Lorca after the earthquakes of 2011 through the Plan Reindus.

In that sense, Martín will request information from the Mayor, Francisco Jódar, about the impact of this specific line on investment in factory infrastructures, the promotion of industrial land and job creation in the municipality.

"This is an important amount of public money and we want to know how it has been used and what the results have been," he said.

In this regard, the councilor of IU-Greens has lamented the "abandonment" of the industrial land of Lorca deputations "lacking infrastructure, services and necessary endowments."

For that reason, it has demanded to the municipal government team of the PP that it addresses the analysis and diagnosis of the situation of all the industrial areas of Lorca, including those of Almendricos, La Paca, Zarzilla de Ramos and Coy, in order to create a mesh Of polygons in these councils that, according to the established in the General Plan, avoid the dispersion of facilities in agricultural and irrigated areas, and allows to walk towards a model of transformation industry that creates and redistributes wealth, generates jobs and fixes The population in rural areas.

Finally, it also pointed to the need to regenerate existing industrial estates, optimizing land use, resources and transport infrastructures, so that they become attractive places for economic activity and investment.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca