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Both formations have addressed a harsh letter to Councilor Pilar Torres in which they warn that "eating cannot be a luxury, it is a basic human right that does not understand either competencies or bureaucratic procedures" Also, they have verified that there are hundreds of children who have not received anything in two months, despite the fact that the central government has sent extra money to urgently pay the aid that was already granted and ask "where is all that money?" The municipal groups of PSOE and Podemos have addressed this morning a harsh letter to the councilor responsible for Social Services and Care for the Unit, Pilar Torres, to denounce "the unbearable situation" of the 3,000 schoolchildren in the municipality who have spent 35 days without recharging of the dining room scholarship card. The socialist councilor Antonio Benito and the councilor of Podemos-Equo, Clara Martínez, forcefully affirm that "we cannot allow anyone to turn their backs, much less children who are not to blame or the situation of their homes nor of course from this health crisis "because" eating cannot be a luxury, it is a basic human right that does not understand either competencies or bureaucratic procedures.

" In addition, they point out that "none of the major municipalities in the Region, except Murcia, have left these minors behind, but it is that even more modest municipalities, whose financial capacity is low, are striving not to leave their minors abandoned, arbitrating solutions to cover this need and this right, even the government of Spain has granted the Region of Murcia more than a million euros to finance this aid, extra money to urgently pay the aid that was already granted, where is all that money?". However, both formations warn of a fact that is even more serious, since not only are 3,000 children who have not received anything in 35 days, but there are hundreds of them who have not even received said card since they were suspended classes following the Decree of the State of Alarm, "hundreds of families from Murcia who have not received anything in two months," insist. In the aforementioned letter, both councilors explain to Torres that "our political groups have collaborated and contributed to make the situation more bearable for everyone; we have let you work and we have lent our shoulders, maintaining a critical but constructive and close attitude to the field of the work committees because we understood what people expected of us and we have done it from the heart, but it cannot be done at the expense of the rights of the weakest.

This situation is unbearable and we do not tolerate it for another minute.

" . For all these reasons, these two political groups require the Murcia City Council government team to proceed urgently to distribute the cards that have not yet reached their families as well as to proceed to pay and the dining scholarships to the nearly one thousand minors dependent on the social services of this City Council, also looking for ways to, as is done in other municipalities, advance the money to the more than two thousand minors who are beneficiaries of these grants by the regional government, establishing at once a stable framework for payments .

Source: PSOE Murcia