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By mid-afternoon yesterday, social networking boiled due to a statement from the Confraternity of Our Father Jesus of Nazareth who claimed he was not going to march in processions of Holy Week in 2016 due to cuts that the city wants to do on receiving the grant annually.
In the aforementioned statement it noted that the local government aims to reduce the subsidy to each brotherhood and sisterhood by 50%, an issue that, as noted, was thwarted the processions.
Given this statement, villadealhama.es made contact with Jose Maria Diaz, president of the Board of Brotherhoods Pasionarias of Alhama de Murcia, the body responsible for organizing the Easter processions.
Diaz claimed finish reading the statement of Step Morao and highlighted with special interest was a "completely unilateral, independent of the Board of guilds with which they have not had for any of this" agreement.
"I think we've all learned through social networks without the board, which should not do because it is the board who organizes all the processions."
Jose Maria Diaz claimed that the Board of Brotherhoods will meet immediately and the matter will be discussed.
It also added that the determination made at this meeting will be announced to the whole society alhameña.
The following is the full statement by Step Morao:
"The Confraternity not draw processions SANTA next week.
The municipal subsidy Easter processions began to realize the Brotherhoods many years.
This support was enhanced after the declaration of Regional Tourist Interest, processions of Holy Week.
Since then every year it was increasing a little, based on the agreements that were signed with the City.
The year 2012 the subsidy was reduced by 20%, the economic crisis as a pretext.
The fraternities and sororities accepted it, amount that has remained until this year 2015.
The fraternities and sororities have considered this subsidy as a fixed income each year, including in their budgets always with this amount to borrow and carry out new projects.
In the last eleven years have joined the processions fifteen steps, the music has changed and improved the staging, which further enriches and enhances our processions declaration of tourist interest.
The new corporation, PSOE, aims to reduce the subsidy, which has been perceived by 50%, which would pay for Easter.
The other 50% say the missing pay in December 2016, depending on the level of income that has been the City.
This is a trap.
How are we going to spend a promise not quantified in March 2016, when Easter falls?
Who is going to spend what you do not know if it will have and that supposedly would pay nine months of the processions have drawn?
What endures supplier nine months without knowing whether to charge?
It is a nonsense.
Solution jokingly: In March we took half of the processions and the other half in December or the percentage representing the rest grant to give us.
With this we underestimate, they do not recognize our work, anchoring and dragging processions.
It is unfortunate.
Easter processions draw more people to the street Local any party.
The other party is in Alhama of Regional Tourist Interest, politically motivated event, with shallow roots and artificial implant, the City is funding 100%.
At a cost much higher than the Easter processions.
It seems that the new corporation, PSOE intends to amend the proceedings to past government teams.
They were profligate and did not know how to manage money to give that amount to the processions.
But what if it is possible that the previous government teams properly value the effort and sacrifice of the fraternities and sororities and the show they put on the street.
We are evaluating a tradition of over three hundred years, it is the most entrenched party Alhama, which is not dead but in constant growth thanks to the rivalry between the fraternities.
Naturally who subsidizes may impose minimum that must be taken, but always as a result of negotiations.
Which has not existed.
The fraternities and sororities, as the Confraternity of Our.
Padre Jesus Nazareno, are maintained with revenue contributions from its brethren, gifts, lottery, snack bar and municipal subsidies.
Revenues for the bar, in the case of purples, integrity will pay the loan installments that are due and payable developments may have by year.
Maintenance costs of the two premises, water, electricity, unexpected, restoration and maintenance of images and thrones, clothes, electrical equipment, batteries, flowers, bands, arm, etc., are covered by dues, donations, lottery and municipal subsidies.
The Confraternity offers the people, since 2010, a museum of our steps.
This very being visited by villagers and outsiders.
Weekly we receive about 50 people coming from towns in the region, a bus.
Since the beginning of the year, September, we visited about 400 tourists.
Maintenance and museum staff is in charge of the Confraternity, the City does not cost anything.
Summarizing.
The Confraternity can not accept this approach.
To get the dignified processions, with their flowers, bands, etc.
lacks money.
The Confraternity in June 2015 and had made his plans for 2016 and was commissioned and made commitments, based on provisional income, which was the subsidy had been receiving.
In November the City tells us the subsidy reduction by half.
To meet the expenses of the commitments made before November, the money is, but to take out processions lack money, which could not go as far.
Subtract in flowers, bands, etc.
But if we go with everything, without reducing spending, taking money from a credit account, for example, you run the risk that the City say or think that has been a success reducing the subsidy.
In other words, that what they gave us was excessive.
The conclusion to all this is that the Confraternity not draw his steps in the Easter of 2016, since to do so would reduce performance, lack of money.
At the next General Meeting will be resorbed firm.
They imagine what it would comment on whether, in the media, it is reported that, in Murcia, with a socialist government, have been suspended because the City ningunea processions grant to them.
Logically it would discourage good achieved fame, along years, processions of Holy Week, declared of Regional Tourist Interest.
Gentlemen, this is the right path loading, the City Council, the Easter processions.
It is not acceptable reduction of aid to compare with the other party processions of Regional Tourist Interest.
Nor is it acceptable reduction without notice.
In November the next processions are already designed.
The rise of our Easter is not due to improvisation.
We do not accept that we discriminate and if a party is financed and some not.
Especially considering how rooted processions and feelings alhameños.
If no Easter processions in the hardest hit, along with the brothers and public, are merchants and restaurateurs.
¿Alhama imagine without processions?
We ask politicians not discourage us.
Please when you go to play that affects the processions of Holy Week, to be negotiated before the fraternities and sororities.
With the imposition and strength not get anything stable.
It's dictatorship.
SIGNED: Board of the Confraternity of Our.
Padre Jesus Nazareno.
Alhama de Murcia, in December 2015. "
Source: villadealhama.es
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