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The announced closure of the Rex Cinema is also bad news for the Socialist Municipal Group, which considers that it is "a room that is part of our culture and our memory, a place where many Murcia and Murcia have lived extraordinary moments ", so" we propose that, as a first step, the government team does not leave the dead body before this very drastic solution and meet with the owner company to study all the possibilities and find the way out to maintain our cinema " , declares the socialist spokesman, José Antonio Serrano.

In addition, he warns that "these days there are many people who are showing their opposition to this closure, so it is not logical that from the City of Murcia be allowed without having exhausted all the possibilities before, in fact, there are many neighbors who are proposing departures and, since the Rex Cinema is in a neighborhood that has no cultural center, it should remain open to offer the only leisure alternative, "says Serrano, who also points out that" if the PP and its government partners are not a solution occurs in the Municipal Group we have several ".

However, according to the spokesman, "the foreseeable closure of the Rex Cinema is just another step in this journey to promote shopping centers against the city center, where there is less and less cultural offer and less trade, just you have to take a walk to see the amount of closed premises. "

Therefore, he affirms that more and more a citizen of districts or neighboring municipalities chooses not to come to the center of Murcia, since "everything is inconvenient, an expensive and inefficient transport, private parking lots with exorbitant rates and now fewer leisure options" .

Likewise, Serrano remembers that there are sectors of the population that need to have a cinema nearby because they do not have private transport and, "although we have a tram, this also has a schedule that may be incompatible with that of the movie's pass, especially, I am thinking of teenagers and the elderly; for them a city council like ours must also work ".

In fact, Serrano adds, "we have been informed that the Rex Cinema is the only accessible one in the city, so that the elderly and the physically disabled can go on foot and have no obstacles to access the room, in addition to having of a corridor wide enough for a wheelchair to pass, which is another reason for this room to remain open. "

The socialist spokesman believes that reducing the cultural offer of this municipality, which "already does not have much, is always bad news for everyone, but it is also the product of the non-existent promotion and promotion policy developed by the government team" .

For all these reasons, he believes that it is necessary to "find a solution, not only because of the negative consequences for culture and leisure that the closing of the Rex Cinema means, but because Murcia's society is asking for it and nothing but respect for the neighbors must take action on the matter. "

Source: PSOE Murcia