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The Ombudsman has agreed to initiate, at the request of Huermur, an investigation to the City of Murcia for the lack of response to a battery of information requests made by the conservation group, on various issues of urban planning and cultural heritage that have never been answered .

Huermur has had to go before this High Commissioner of the General Courts, and inform him of the lack of response of the Murcia Consistory to the writings of Huermur, given the opacity and lack of systematic response of this local administration to access requests to the public information that is made.

The conservation entity regrets the lack of desire of the city council and those responsible for addressing the right of citizens to have access to public information, and which is covered by Law 19/2013 of transparency, access to public information and good governance.

Murcia, December 14, 2019

The Association for the Conservation of the Garden and Heritage of Murcia (Huermur) has recently been aware of the start of an investigation by the Ombudsman to the City Council of Murcia after the complaint filed by the group, in the absence of municipal response to a battery of requests for access to public information, which deal with cultural heritage and urban development.

These requests make reference among other matters to the disappearance of the centenary gate of the early twentieth century of the Artillery Barracks of Murcia, the archaeological memories of the medieval tower of Zarandona, or the Plan of Intervention and Recovery of the Wheel of the Ñora whose Copy was requested, and was never provided.

Huermur points out that he has had to go before this High Commissioner of the General Courts to inform him of the lack of response of the Murcia Consistory to the writings of Huermur, given the opacity and lack of systematic response of this local administration to the requests of access to the public information that are made.

A situation, they point out from Huermur, which is totally unacceptable and intolerable in a public administration such as the City of Murcia that claims to be totally transparent, and hold various recognitions about transparency.

A municipal vision that contrasts with the current reality, given the recent investigation opened from Madrid to the city council.

The conservation entity regrets the lack of desire of the city council and those responsible for addressing the right of citizens to have access to public information, a basic right of citizenship that is protected by Law 19/2013 of transparency, access to public information and good governance, and that allows a period of one month to answer the requests for information that are made.

Huermur also notes that following the instructions given by the Ombudsman to Huermur, nine other requests for access to public information that are from 2018 and that are unanswered, have been repeated to the city council warning that if within the deadline After a month set by the Transparency Law, no response has been received, they will be transferred to the Ombudsman following his instructions to be added to the open investigation.

In the same vein, the president of Huermur, Sergio Pacheco, said: “We hope that the City of Murcia will respond to the requests for access to public information of Huermur on the table pending reply, as well as actively collaborate with the Ombudsman in this investigation he has just opened, in order to improve the citizens' right to know �.

Finally, Huermur hopes that the intervention of the Ombudsman will ensure that in the City Council of Murcia, with the Councilor for Urban Agenda and Open Government to the front, "put the batteries and begin to unclog the large number of Huermur files and writings that they still circulate through the Consistory, all for the protection of Murcia and its garden �.

Source: HUERMUR