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Note from IU + LV:

The mayor of IU + Greens in the city of Murcia, Esther Herguedas, today described as "paltry" the budget of the Department of Tourism in 2009, and accused the owner of the field, Isabel Valcárcel, to include proposals for the construction of infrastructure "are not even planned."

Herguedas was referring to the announcement of that council on the construction of a Palace of Congresses in the capital, whose creation "is not intended, does not know who is going to cover and also has no specific location, only one submission to forward an amendment to the General Management Plan. "

"The same applies to the draft Guadalupe Fairgrounds, will not run for the next year or the next," said the mayor of IU + Greens, who also said the tourism department "remains the poor relation in tourism promotion, with a budget of 2 billion euros.

He noted that the government team, "the trend of budget presentation is based on that in times of shortage of investment, they can not do is invent them, to which he added that the council was" going to invest in sports facilities this year 320 million euros it has become a pledge for 2009, without any funding. "

"We miss more imagination to promote quality tourism and especially cultural tourism," he said Herguedas.

Source: IU+LV Ayuntamiento de Murcia