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The Municipal People has filed a motion in Parliament to request the Ministry of Industry that the Congress of Deputies try and become law the prohibition on utilities and energy supply can render to the municipalities.

This motion was approved with votes in favor of the Municipal Group Socialist and United Left and against UPyD.

The Mayor explained that "picking a generalized situation of many municipalities are going to propose to the ministry to consider necessary regulatory changes that they see not interrupted power supply as a matter of paying the bills for utilities.

Chamber added that "the council provide basic services to citizens and that is not received, caused by the stressful situation of liquidity and cash for a large number of municipalities, companies cut the supply of those essential services such as schools social, sports ... "

Municipalities are providing part of the municipal patrimony to the activity of these companies is profit.

If municipalities do not become paralyzed or interrupt the transfer of space for the location of transformers and other necessary elements for power, the companies also have to have an account with the councils'

The mayor Nuria Fuentes, spokesman for the Municipal People's Party, explained during a discussion of the motion that "the legislation establishes the essential services that should have guaranteed the supply of electric power without interruption. But there are cases that the law does not provide as in the case of schools and other services that correspond to the consistory. "

Sources added that "should avoid the undesirable situation of a municipality to become bogged down in their daily work and essential basic services, the maintenance should be ensured, notwithstanding that in turn seek ways to offset debt can be generated. "

Therefore, from the Municipal People's Party is considered "timely and appropriate to discuss in the House of Representatives to ban power companies and energy may interrupt supply to the Town Hall, to approve the law on lotteries ".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia