Note from PSOE:
PSRM general secretary in Torre Pacheco, Laureano Buendia, said the recently concluded 2008 "was a year of punishment in terms of average per capita spending in Torre Pacheco by the Government of Valcárcel," because the regional government invested less than half the regional average.
Buendía, who accused the current mayor of the PP, Daniel García Madrid, to "head down" in 2008, asked "what their attitude in the difficult year 2009, if you are correct or will yield to pressure from his party and will continue to fund construction of the autonomous community with money from city coffers. "
Buendía revealed that, according to the Observatory of Employment in the Region of Murcia, the increase in unemployment in Torre Pacheco in the last year (December 2007 to December 2009) was 156%, which means that "more than 2,000 residents and neighboring municipality are in unemployment. "
"A year ago, the popular mayor boasted that there was full employment in our town, and now what are now those fireworks, those meals of more than 1,200 euros to the village headman, or those 'magnificent' Conventions urban with tens of millions of euros without charge for more than two years? "Buendía also questioned.
The secretary general of the Socialists in Torre Pacheco, for whom the mayor "has not fought for more investment in the Community", adding that in the General Budget of the Region of Murcia, figure, in terms of per capita expenditure for 2009 territorialized , an amount of 254.02 euros per capita for Torre Pacheco, compared to a regional average of 509.88 euros.
And if we take as reference the current population (31,081 inhabitants) rather than there was on January 1, 2007 which is what makes the Community (29 187), the cost per person drops to 238.54 euros.
Laureano Buendía compared this amount you will receive nearby towns such as San Javier (812.35 euros per capita), Fuente Alamo (668.78 euros per capita), Mazarrón (744.39 euros) or Totana (435.37 euros).
5.2 million Zapatero Fund
On the other hand, Buendia said that Zapatero's Socialist government has brought to Torre Pacheco EUR 5.2 million Funding Local Government Fund to mitigate the damage of unemployment.
He recalled that since the Regional Assembly, Mariano Garcia, deputy regional and municipal spokesman of the Socialist Group in Torre Pacheco, has undertaken initiatives to improve the regional investment in the municipality, such as building a running track Roldan a covered pavilion in the San Antonio College, a covered pavilion at the College Fontes, a cultural center in the Barrio de San Antonio, an integrated training center in Balsicas, an authorized music teaching in Torre Pacheco, an emergency department in Roldan, a quick route to Cartagena, Torre Pacheco, the arrangement of the journey Balsicas Murcia Avenue, the widening of the road F-14 The Jimenado - Torre Pacheco, construction of public housing residence for young and older public Torre Pacheco.
"El PSOE de Torre Pacheco will continue to claim all the investments that residents of this county want and need, so that it can counteract the situation of labor ruin which has led the Popular Party's economic model and Tower Pacheco takes to not be bound to be a town of second, "he concluded.
Source: PSOE de Torre Pacheco