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Faced with a possible private initiative for the development of a mine on the bay, the socialists in the region are to Congress a series of questions to clarify what is happening with the Portman Bay and why the Rajoy government seems to have abandoned the project

The Socialist Party in the Murcia region this morning held a working meeting and coordinating actions related to the regeneration project of Portman Bay and the new private project that proposes to turn it into a mine.

The meeting was attended, among others, the national representative, Maria Gonzalez Veracruz, general secretary PSRM-PSOE, Rafael González Tovar, Environment Secretary PSRM, Enrique Ayuso and PSOE spokesman in La Union, Mariano Oliver .

Maria Gonzalez Veracruz later explained at a press conference that "the regeneration project is a strategic and symbolic project in which the Socialist government put a lot of effort and research and for which the consensus reached out. Additionally there are 10 million euros invested, with a new project on the table did not know if would be lost as would happen with European Union funding for the regeneration project. "

"The Socialists are committed to the regeneration project, the result of a political and social consensus, and which have worked years and has already made a significant investment. If during the year and a half over Rajoy's Government had been followed the pace of the project and had executed what was tendered, today would be a reality regeneration and employment would be generated, "said Maria Gonzalez Veracruz.

The national deputy stated that the PSOE Congress registered with a battery of questions on the Government to achieve clarify the many questions that arise about the possibility of the regeneration project of Portman Bay fall into oblivion and be replaced by a mining project private.

"We changed a regeneration of an open pit mine, a project with the support of neighbors and political consensus, for a mine that would not really know that for the town or for the region. Carry to Congress 15 questions to the Government of Rajoy, who has year and means paralysis over everything that has to do with the region of Murcia and in particular with Portman. want to know why the reports have been made regarding this project have done private companies and agencies under the Ministry. Which happens with the monitoring committee, if it is reported to the members and if no date for a future meeting. If the Government of Rajoy, the Valcárcel and the Government of the Union abandoned the agreement given by 2006. If the Government of Rajoy the project that they said they would launch, why not know anything, why not informing the public. Which reports have been made, which authorizations are, where waste would be removed, what would happen to the marina, which would be the time on the calendar. are many questions and total opacity by the PP governments, "said Socialist deputy.

"We demand that is put in place and the project result of the agreement of 2006 and the PP stop stop it for reasons unknown. Demand clarification on what happens to you, taking a project started, the environmental impact study done and 10 million euros invested, only have doubts and questions about the future of Portman Bay, "concluded Mary Gonzalez Veracruz.

For his part, Secretary of the PSOE in La Union and socialist municipal group's spokesman, Mariano Oliver, said that "For socialists today there is only one valid project and that is the regeneration project of the Bay, the result of 2006 agreement between the two administrations. Such is the project that we defend and PP governments must respect. demand that the project be bid takes delaying two years and the immediate convocation and unfulfilled promise by officials from the Ministry of Monitoring Committee with the unavoidable presence of neighbors and social agents ".

Socialist spokesman of The Union has also indicated that "the performance surprised the mayor of La Union is championing a project to paralyze and substitute another project that consensus had political, social and neighborhood. Mayor has left the facet protest he had with the Socialist government and now is the great indulgent of delays that has accumulated the regeneration of the Bay ".

Source: PSRM-PSOE