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PSOE, Citizens, Now Murcia and Cambiemos Murcia present a motion urging Ballesta to convene the Council within a period of fifteen days to analyze, in a monographic way, the relationship of all services that Emuasa maintains externalized and establish a deadline and a plan for Recover them by the public part of the company

The opposition recalls that there is already an initiative approved in May 2016 in this regard, which is why they are criticizing the current outsourcing of the services of Pumping, Telemando and Telecontrol de Aguas de Murcia

The municipal groups of PSOE, Citizens, Now Murcia and Cambiemos Murcia have presented this Wednesday at a press conference the initiative they will defend in the municipal plenary next Thursday, urging the mayor of Murcia to convene, within a period of fifteen days, the Council Of Administration of Emuasa to analyze the situation of outsourced contracts and to study the possibility of internalizing the services that are provided through other companies.

Enrique Ayuso, councilor of the Municipal Socialist Group;

Mario Gómez, spokesperson for Citizens;

Luis Bermejo, councilor of Ahora Murcia and Nacho Tornel, spokesman for Cambiemos Murcia, have reminded that Emuasa is a company with a majority of municipal public capital (51%) that, because of successive Popular Party governments, has been giving up The loss of control of the majority public sector, remaining in the hands of the minority private partner, Hidrogea.

"This is why - we have indicated the four groups - we have been demanding that the public part of the company regain control over it to improve management, save costs in maintaining the company and bring down the cost of water for Murcia And Murcian ".

The councilors have recalled that the EMUASA's own Company Committee has estimated at 155,686 euros per year the savings that would mean to internalize only the services of Telemando and Telecontrol.

The motion is intended to create a plan that allows the public sector to regain control of the services currently offered through external companies.

A similar initiative was already approved in the May 2016 municipal plenary session, which established the review of outsourced services and the possibility of internalization.

Currently, the awarding of the services of Pumping, Telemando and Telecontrol, "strategic services for Aguas de Murcia and that should be managed directly by the public part of the company, are in the process of being awarded," PSOE, Citizens, Now Murcia And Cambiemos Murcia, who again have an impact on the need to recover services and curb outsourcing.

The groups have indicated that, on 21 December, the Emuasa Board of Directors agreed to send its members a detailed report on outsourced services and their costs without the Councilors having received this report so far. information.

Thus, with a motion, that of May 2016, still to be fulfilled and a commitment to analyze outsourced contracts to regain control, "it is not understood that outsourcing processes are being carried out, so we are forced to Bring the issue back to municipal plenary. "

Source: PSOE Murcia