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The mayor advocates a strategy that "transcends this Government and this Corporation" to meet the challenges of the next decade and draws the guidelines of the future projects 'Southern Connection' and 'Medieval Murcia and the Fortress of the Wolf King'.

The Debate of the state of the municipality in figures:

The economic impact of tourism in Murcia exceeds 260 million euros, which represents an increase of 77% since 2015.

The districts and districts of the South receive the largest investment in the history of the municipality, with 600 million for the burial and the arrival of the AVE.

The City Council has consigned a total of 26 million until 2019.

Indebtedness has been reduced by 25% since 2014.

The Social Rights budget has increased by 33%, from 22 million in 2015 to 29 this year.

Since July 2015, the Plenary has held 46 sessions and submitted 906 motions.

Of these, 720 have been approved (57% unanimously).

The municipal boards have held 1,499 plenary sessions.

219 Contract Tables have been counted.

The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, this morning opened the last debate on the state of the municipality of the legislature with an intervention in which he has rendered accounts on the management of Government made in the last three years and has defended a "Project of City agreed with the Murcian society that transcends this Government and this Corporation ".

"In my opinion," he said, "the need for a common project that exceeds us in time is an indispensable condition to win the future."

The councilor highlighted the "loyalty and pride" towards Murcia as "the principles that have driven our Government action", acknowledged his "permanent nonconformity" and drew the main lines of Murcia's future projects of the next decade, which They articulate around initiatives such as 'Conexión Sur,' 'Murcia Río' or 'Medieval Murcia and the Fortress of the Rey Lobo', "whose size demands the involvement of all," he said.

Figures and sectors

In his speech, Ballesta offered data and figures and reported on the progress in the various strategic projects that underpin the present and future development of Murcia, as well as the actions carried out in the five areas in which it is articulated: the territorial, social model, cultural, economic and smart city.

With regard to tourism, a key sector for the local economy, its economic impact in the municipality in 2017 has exceeded 262.66 million euros, which represents an increase of 77% since 2015. In the city of Murcia the number of People living from tourism have multiplied by two since three years ago.

Last year alone, tourism generated 35,426 jobs.

In addition, for the first time in the history of the municipality this 2018 are expected to beat historical figures, with more than 500,000 visitors and 800,000 overnight stays.

The mayor also referred to the project of undergrounding the train tracks as it passes through the city of Murcia, which is currently underway and represents the largest investment in the history of the municipality, with 600 million euros contributed by the three administrations .

In this regard, he reported that "the City Council has consigned a total of 26 million euros between 2017 and 2019".

At this point, the councilor highlighted the neighborhoods and districts of the South will benefit from this large economic injection and will see materialize the projects of recovery of public spaces through the plan 'Connection South', the project of revitalization not only of the space freed by the train tracks, but of all the neighborhoods of southern Murcia.

"What we know as 'the central area' will be extended to the Carmen neighborhood to the new Carmen intermodal station, while hundreds of thousands of square meters of public spaces will be recovered, with other strategic actions such as 'Murcia Río' or the Via Verde, which connects La Huerta and the districts of the south with the center, "he recalled.

The City Council has already invested 10 million euros in 'Murcia Río'.

Projects such as the garden of the Cuatro Piedras, the bicycle path in the urban section and the lighting of the channel and the bridges of Manterola and Jorge Manrique have already been executed.

Currently, the Alameda garden, the Riverwalk and the new Interpretation Center of La Contraparada are under construction.

A City Hall sanitized economically and financially

Regarding the municipal accounts, José Ballesta reported that "thanks to the approval of the successive budgets, we have an economically and financially sound town hall: we have closed 2017 with a positive treasury surplus and we have lowered the municipal indebtedness by 25% since 2014 ", While reminding that, for the sixth consecutive year," taxes, fees and public prices remain frozen ".

With regard to the budget allocated to Social Rights, this has increased by 33.43% from the beginning of the legislature to this year, going from 22 million euros in 2015 to 29.5 million in 2018.

Claims more funding for Murcia

José Ballesta claimed in his speech "a greater involvement with the future of Murcia by the Government of Spain and the Region."

"We start from a disadvantage with respect to financing.

Murcia receives € 213 per inhabitant from external financing (from the national and regional administrations).

Much less than other municipalities with similar population characteristics: Sevilla € 456, Valencia € 448, Malaga € 425 or Zaragoza € 410.

We add to this that our municipality faces each year 39 million euros for competitions that do not correspond to us and that other administrations should attend. "

"We are obliged to manage the complexity and for our part, we will continue to attend all the public calls, with ambitious projects," said Ballesta.

A Strategy supported in Europe

The approval of the Strategy of Murcia 2020 in May 2016 has turned Murcia into the City Council of the peninsula with greater funding from the Operational Program Plurirregional of Spain FEDER 2014-2020.

The financing coming from the DUSI Strategy, together with that coming from Red.es with the smart city project 'MiMurcia', amounts to more than 25 million euros from the ERDF.

In addition, at present, Murcia is the first Town Hall in Spain at the level of justified implementation of FEDER funds from the DUSI Strategy.

Advance without investiture pact

Ballesta defended the policy of tolerance, dialogue and agreement in the face of the friend-enemy dialectic, and wanted to recall the first day of the current legislature, which gave "an absolutely new situation in the history of this Corporation.

It was faced without an investiture pact, nor a pact of governability And before that, what was to be done ?: reaching agreements. "

"We must be aware that the times of hyperliders have come to an end.

That is the moment of agreement and agreement "and highlighted the" height of vision and common sense "of the municipal Socialist and Citizens groups for the approval of the successive budgets.

As a reflection of the institutional activity, the mayor explained that between July 2015 and September 2018 the Plenary of the Corporation has held 46 sessions.

17 institutional declarations have been made and 906 motions have been presented.

Of these, 720 have been approved (415 unanimously, 57.6%), 111 have been withdrawn and 75 rejected. In the 65 municipal meetings, a total of 1,499 plenary sessions (1,055 ordinary and 444 extraordinary) have been held.

219 municipal contracting tables have been held.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia