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A few days ago, the Municipal Socialist Group warned of the imminent termination of the chairs and grandstands contract, a contract whose terms are well known by the Councilor for Culture, Celebrations and Recovery of Heritage, Jesús Pacheco, who "has not been sufficiently agile and responsible to take out the new contest, so now, quickly and running, we will have an award with which the City Council will lose money. "

The socialist councilor Enrique Lorca points out that the head of Culture and Celebrations should give explanations to Murcia and Murcia for "this bad management" since "they deserve to know how public money is used."

It also states that "we understand that there are municipal matters that require, for novelty and difficulty, a longer procedure, but contracts that go out to competition on a regular basis and to which we ourselves put an end date have no excuse to end without having the new prepared. "

According to the mayor, in order to have the chairs and grandstands this Holy Week and Spring Festivities, "the government team has had no choice but to process through an urgent procedure a demand authorization that was approved at the last Board of Government, something foolish when the councilman of Culture and Celebrations has had four years to prepare the specifications, which is his competence. "

In this regard, it specifies that in 2016 the contract had an annual fee of 112,311.86 euros, however, on this occasion, being an authorization for the use of public domain specific rates apply, the price is 70,587.86 euros , something that Lorca questions: how is it possible to lose 42,000 euros a year when it turns out that, from what we have verified, the number of streets to install the chairs has doubled? "

In addition, the Socialist councilor criticizes that in the specification of this authorization it is established that the same parade can be extended to parade until 2023, so that by that date the City Council could stop entering for this concept more than 100,000 euros.

"The lack of respect for public money is unjustified and I do not believe that the municipal coffers are to belittle even one euro," explains Lorca, who also indicates that the previous award was that the prices of the chairs could be lowered, while in the current authorization establishes the cost without any discount. "

For all these reasons, he declares that "we are facing a serious damage not only to the municipal coffers, but to the citizen in general, and we believe that our obligation is to debug responsibilities for what we have already requested the appearance of Pacheco in the General Affairs Committee ".

Source: PSOE Murcia