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NOW MURCIA requires the implementation in the municipality of the mechanisms to fight against energy poverty that includes Law 10/2016, of June 7, Reform of Law 6/2015, March 24, Housing of The Region of Murcia, and Law 4/1996, of June 14, on the Consumer and User Statute of the Region of Murcia, which contemplates measures to combat energy poverty and although it entered into force on 15 September, the PP government does not set in motion.

Now Murcia will take this requirement to the next plenary session, as well as another series of petitions to prevent electricity and gas power outages from being made to non-vulnerable families. "We are going to do everything possible because there is no Only cut of light this winter ", affirms Alicia Morales.

The spokeswoman of the municipal group points out that "in the last reform 10/2016 of the Regional Housing Law has been chosen, in the image and likeness of the Catalan Law and with the collaboration of the PAH, by a model in which the Community Autonomous Government to develop agreements with supply companies to address, among other issues, emergency measures against energy poverty. "

Morales recalls that 44.9% of the population of Murcia, about 658,601 people, live in a situation or risk of poverty or exclusion, the highest figure of all the autonomous communities, while being one of the regions with the highest incidence of Poverty.

"Our municipality is home to a population that accounts for almost a third of the total of the Region, so the City has to take seriously the diagnosis, monitoring and implementation of measures against energy poverty," he says.

The Councilor emphasizes that the importance of Law 10/2016 in relation to the fight against energy poverty lies in that it provides "that the Regional Government of the Regional Government with competence in housing matters will draw up an obligatory communication protocol for social services and Of intervention of municipalities to avoid cuts in supply in cases of non-payment due to lack of economic resources. "

The spokeswoman for Now Murcia explains that "it is fundamental to create this protocol because it gives an important role to municipal social services, which are the closest to citizens and therefore those who can best assess the vulnerability situation of families and people who Are potentially affected by energy poverty. "

Therefore, the motion that Murcia will take to the next plenary session, in addition to the application of Law 10/2016, of June 7, that the Family Council signs agreements with all companies that supply energy in the Region of Murcia, and that all political groups represented in the Regional Assembly participate in its elaboration.

"Our ultimate objective is to avoid the serious suffering caused by energy poverty to the most vulnerable neighbors and neighbors in our municipality, using all the tools available to the City Council." Position clearly against the cuts of light and gas. "

Source: Ahora Murcia