González Veracruz says that the PP has the opportunity to rectify and demonstrate if it is for Lorca or if, on the other hand, it wants to continue punishing this land without AVE, without a Court House, without desalinated water or without a Prevention Plan of Avenues
The PSOE Deputy in Congress, María González Veracruz and PSOE Spokesman in the City of Lorca, Diego José Mateos have announced their amendments to the General State Budget, necessary to "readjust" the "poor investment" planned for Lorca.
He assures that the 2017 PGEs are a new example of the "hypocrisy" that Rajoy maintains with Lorca and the Lorca, because with their accounts "the PP again punishes this land in need of investments."
González Veracruz has assured that "Lorca has not been a priority for Rajoy for some time" and not including in the budgets the financing to realize such important projects as the arrival of the AVE and the Mediterranean Corridor, the construction of the Palace of Justice or the infrastructures To alleviate the water deficit in our land.
In order to combat Rajoy's discrimination against Lorca, the Socialists are seeking the injection in the municipality of more than 76 million euros, from the "priority that Lorca supposes for the PSOE" and the "conviction" that Lorca "still needs support for his Recovery after the difficult episodes of the last years ".
To this end, they announce that they will again request the Government to draw up a plan for the integral development of the Lorca area to promote normalization and economic and social development, which is still "vital" after earthquakes.
The Socialist Deputy announces that within its amendments, prioritize the investment to make the Palace of Justice a reality.
They will ask for 1.000.000 € for the start of the project, against the "pegote" of only 56,000 euros that Rajoy and the PP had foreseen for 2017.
González Veracruz says that Rajoy continues to delay with his budgets the arrival of the AVE and the Mediterranean Corridor.
To combat this new "slowdown of the PP to the project of the High Speed ​​for Lorca" again demand the inclusion of a € 20 million item, as well as another novelty, € 10 million to complete the Murcia-Almeria line.
Among their priorities for Lorca, the Socialists have also asked the Government of Spain to include a line of 200,000 euros to support the construction of a lower section for vehicles under the San Antonio roundabout.
Likewise, it announces that they will request a € 15 million item for the implementation of a Plan for Prevention of Avenues, necessary to "adapt the channels of the municipality and protect the citizens" against possible torrential rainstorms.
With the budgets of Rajoy, if today repeated again a storm like the one of 2012 warns that "we would have the same consequences".
In addition, the Socialists are working to get 5 million needed for the construction of the six rafts and the elevations necessary to drive water through the Cerro Colorado pipeline to Totana, so that irrigators can use the desalinated water that "we get the Socialist and that the PP both criticized. "
In terms of water, the Socialists also allocate 10 million euros in their amendments for the construction of a new desalinazadora plant in Águilas, as well as 15 million for the installation of photovoltaic plants that supply energy necessary to desalt 50Hm3 and thus to reduce the cost of Water.
Source: PSOE Lorca