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| The Urban Planning Department announced that the cocktail bars could open and be converted into cafeterias, but the Police Department does not share that criterion and the agents have instructions to sanction these openings | "It is the last straw, it is absolute nonsense.
What we had yet to see.
The Murcia City Council announces with great fanfare that cocktail bars can be converted into cafes and open, but after making the investment in the premises , remove the employees from the ERTE, carry out all the pertinent steps (suppliers, cleaning, sanitary measures ...) at last and start working the Local Police fined us.
It is the joke of the century, it is nonsense that plays cruelly with the bread of businessmen, workers and their families ", protests Jesús Jiménez, president of the Regional Federation of Hospitality and Tourism Entrepreneurs of the Region of Murcia (Hostemur). And it is that the employer's association, which has been negotiating that possibility for two weeks to give a horizon of hope to the nightlife sector in the capital -as other municipalities in the Region have done-, is now facing this absurd situation.
"We have many meetings and even on the day of the demonstration on wheels in the center of the capital, the City Council called us to present it at a press conference, but we could not due to lack of time and the Consistory itself communicated it in a press release," he explains Jimenez.
Hostemur warned of possible problems with the Police because they had a difference of opinion and there were specific complaints, "but the Department of Urbanism stated that it would be solved." The nightlife hoteliers thus opened facing the bridge and the first fines arrived, which as of Tuesday reached almost fifty.
"The policemen said that if drinks were sold it was nightlife and that they did not have any communication from the Urban Planning that indicated otherwise," they point out from the employer, who in response to their complaints was informed that yesterday it would be resolved. Discrepancies continue "Today, Thursday, the communication from Urban Planning to the Police has finally arrived, but the discrepancies continue," says Jiménez, who anticipates that there will be a coordination meeting tomorrow, but the sector is clear "that an agreement will not be reached." For this reason, the employer's association has asked its members not to open their nightlife establishments in the capital until this aspect is clarified "for fear of fines, which may lead to serious disobedience that can lead to significant Economic sanctions". And in the midst of this shocking and absurd situation, a few days ago came the request to Murcia city councils from the Minister of Tourism, Cristina Sánchez, to authorize this reconversion of the nightlife activity requesting a responsible statement from the premises.
"The objective is to thank, but the form is not correct.
We have made it clear that it is much faster, simpler and more practical for the regional government to order this situation and not pass the ball to the municipalities, than in the The case of Murcia has the hospitality industry between eyebrows, "indicates the employer. "We no longer know what to expect, it is a daily uncertainty.
At every step the politicians change their criteria and those who always end up punished are the hoteliers.
This cannot continue like this," laments the president of Hostemur, who recalls that in other communities Like Castilla-La Mancha, Andalusia, or Valencia, nightlife was not closed because it was directly transformed into coffee shops.
Source: HOSTEMUR
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