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The Neighborhood Platform for the Recovery of Line 61 Bus, composed of residents in the districts of Aljucer, El Palmar and San Ginés, has convened for next Friday, June 8, a demonstration that will depart from the El Palmar road to 19 hours and will have the support of a score of groups, political groups and associations.

This was announced today at a press conference by José Enrique Saura, a member of the Platform, who has described "the drama" that neighbors and neighbors of the affected areas experience daily since the regional government suppressed this and other lines that connect in 2012 the south - especially the more rural places - with the center of the municipality.

Saura explained that line 18, which replaces 61 since its elimination, is "deficient", has "few frequencies" and, in short, does not serve to meet the needs of citizens, especially older people, with diseases or in situations of dependency that need to go to the center or to the reference hospitals to receive health assistance. The Latbus works council supports

The mobilization has the backing of the Latbus works council, whose president, Francisco Frutos, recalled that workers have already expressed their disagreement with the restructuring, because this adjustment brought with it 50 dismissals and cuts in all lines, that is, " more precarious "in the public transport service that operates in the municipality.

"They have left populations completely isolated," said Frutos, for whom the demands in favor of the recovery of line 61 are "more than fair."

Together with the Latbus works council, they will join the Yayoflautas Murcia demonstration;

Assembly Murcia without walls;

USE;

Union for Trade Union Action;

United Left: Now Murcia, Anticapitalists Murcia;

We can Murcia Region;

Let's change Murcia;

Ecologists in Action, Communist Party of the Region of Murcia and ProSoterramiento Platform.

The No + Precariety Platform, the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE), has also given its support;

the municipal boards of El Palmar and San Ginés;

Let's change Aljucer and Citizens Aljucer and the Círculos de Podemos Costera Sur and El Palmar.

The neighbors are not currency

Saura has anticipated that from the Platform will continue to claim the recovery of line 61 and that they are not worth the argument offered by the councilor of Finance, Eduardo Martínez-Oliva, that this demand depends on whether the municipal groups support the budgets Government team. So, he insisted that you can not use the neighbors as a "bargaining chip" to negotiate the accounts because these "are not a whole", but are formed by economic items.

For the platform, the important thing is that "a money is saved" so that the 61 "returns" to operate "as soon as possible".

Source: Cambiemos Murcia