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The company Premursa Theme Park SA claims the City Hall of Alhama and the Autonomous Community the expenses of the failed Paramount theme park
The Popular Party insists that "it left the coffers full", when there was in 2015 a hole of three million euros between debts and judicial sentences, to which this claim can now be added
In general secretary of the PSOE of Alhama, Antonio Garcia, has appeared to explain the position of the Socialist Party, after the information published on Thursday by several media outlets that collect the claim of the heirs of Jesus Samper against the Autonomous Community and the City Council of Alhama for a total amount of 39,584,108 euros.
García recalled that the PSOE initially agreed with the installation of Paramount Park in the municipality, but "the government team that entered in 2011, formed by the Popular Party and Citizens of the Democratic Center (former brand of the current C's), He paid attention to the opposition groups and questioned this project, about which we had serious doubts as to whether he complied with the law. "
It must be remembered that Paramount Park was originally planned in the lands of Condado de Alhama II, but when it did not reach an agreement with its owners, Premursa changed its location to a land that it had acquired next to the protected area of ​​the Sierra de El Valle -Carrascoy.
The place has a special protection, being a natural space, and despite this it was considered as non-sectorized urbanizable land.
The Superior Court of Justice of Murcia estimated in July 2017 that, of the total surface area of ​​the project (1.5 million square meters), about 320,000 m2 that were re-qualified by the City Council, remained within the protected space, thus nullifying the project .
"The Autonomous Community is the one who must mark the limits of protected areas, in 2012 it modified those limits in the Carrascoy natural park and that's when we had serious doubts about whether the project violated the law," explains García.
On May 9, 2013 there was an extraordinary plenary session at noon to approve the project.
Our general secretary at the time, José Espadas, proposed to the government team at that time, made up of nine councilors from the PP and three from CCD, who would suspend the area affected by the special protection plan for the Sierra de Carrascoy and the Port until the moment in which by the General Directorate of the Environment a certificate is issued certifying that these lands do not have the category of non-developable land of specific protection, as they are not subject to any specific protection regime incompatible with their urban transformation ".
The twelve councilors of PP and CCD did not take into account the warnings of the opposition, which were Socialist Party and United Left and neither the reports of the municipal technicians, in which they reflected that it was the Autonomous Community who had to clarify if those 320,000 m2 were inside a protected space.
"They were in a hurry to take the photo in the afternoon, and we told them that this act that was being held in the Plenary Hall could cause problems for the City Council and, therefore, all the residents of Alhama." Unfortunately, is happening and we are at a crossroads in which the municipal coffers can be seriously affected, only by the irresponsibility of the Popular Party and Citizens ", says García.
The Alhama PP has insisted on its demonstrations that "left the coffers full," a lie easily removable, because when they left the Government in 2015 the City Council was immersed in numerous debts with banks, with municipal workers and court judgments by value of three million euros, to which was added after a fall of more than one million euros in the budget for the reduction of the contribution in the County and a Constitutional Court ruling that annulled the income from capital gains of those developments.
Now, this claim of almost 40 million euros threatens the City Council, and therefore, all the residents of Alhama.
Our general secretary wanted to send a message of tranquility, "from the Socialist Party of Alhama, with the support of the PSRM-PSOE, we offer our full cooperation to the City Council, through our legal services, in defense of the interests of all Alhama Once again we have to row with the wind against and take forward a very difficult situation because of the irresponsibility of the councilors of the PP and Citizens, who only look for their partisan interests In May of next year there are elections and let's hope that the voters of our Region take note of these behaviors. "
Source: PSOE Alhama de Murcia
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