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Gloria Martín has requested the mediation of the City Council to avoid the disappearance of offices, especially in districts, and that its inhabitants, the majority of advanced age, have to move kilometers and kilometers to carry out any financial management

The councilor of IU-Greens, Gloria Martín, has alerted today of the closure of more than 30% of bank branches with which Lorca counted before the crisis began in 2009. For the mayor, the privatization and concentration of the financial sector has also caused a significant destruction of employment in the municipality, which has amounted to around 200 jobs in this period.

In addition, the number of people who do not have this service in their place of residence has increased by 20%.

Martín explained that this is a form of "financial exclusion" that especially affects the inhabitants of the rural areas of Lorca, although it also significantly affects the inhabitants of neighborhoods such as San Diego, San Cristóbal, La Viña or Virgin of the Huertas.

The mayor of IU-Verdes explained that there are areas, such as the Highlands of Lorca, where there are districts lacking bank branches and / or ATMs, such as Coy or Avilés.

In others, Zarcilla de Ramos has closed half of what was.

In addition, the progressive digitalization of the banking sector has multiplied the effects of the existing digital divide between urban and rural areas, also contributing to the aforementioned bank exclusion.

For all this, Gloria Martín has asked the City of Lorca and his mayor, Fulgencio Gil, to "mediate" to prevent financial institutions closing branches in the districts, leaving many citizens in rural areas without service.

The mayor of IU-Verdes recalled the closure of these offices is "a breach by the entities of the conditions under which the contract is signed with users."

It has also maintained that the closures of rural banks violate the guidelines of the Bank of Spain, "since they are not being announced to their customers with the months in advance that mark this one."

"Given this fact some municipalities are making available sheets of complaints duly completed to present to the bank," he pointed out, which also "should be facilitating the Lorca."

For Martin, the City can not remain impassive before the loss of this service.

"We can not allow many neighbors, most advanced age, to have to travel kilometers and kilometers to carry out any financial management," he said.

The mayor of IU-Verdes also indicated that the massive closure of banking offices does not contribute to fixing the population in the rural environment and that harms the tourist industry: "How do we guarantee consumption in a town where a cashier is not found? ", he asked himself.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca