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The socialist mayor Juan Patricio Castro regrets that the PP still does not take the bull by the horns when the collapse of retail in the municipality is the harsh reality, having fallen in the last year sales by 8.4% and employment by March 1 , 5, according to the INE

The recent data on retail trade in the region clearly show that the PP is not aware of the seriousness of the situation of small businesses in the town, said the PSOE mayor Juan Patricio Castro, who laments that "no cuts July have helped make this one up. "

Situation grim

Castro speaks in these terms with the data in hand.

In the past year, sales have fallen by 8.4% and employment has fallen by 3.5%, according to the National Statistics Institute, so-socialist mayor denounces unfortunately occupy the top ranking of all Autonomous Communities in job loss.

It's clear that this really is a new setback for the Councillor of Commerce, José María Tortosa,-complaint Castro-busiest in doing studies that take the bull by the horns and come face to face with a serious problem that is causing Murcia a ghost town, full of posters of close settlement by transfer windows and doors and local businesses that were profitable, closed up tight.

Few and evil

"The PP can not continue La Glorieta idly," the socialist mayor who recalls that in two year term has never been treated in a monograph the subject of retail trade in the Socio-Economic Development Commission, commission-Castro recalls who created the mayor trumpeted Chamber to solve the problem than have residents of the municipality, unemployment.

According to the Socialist councilor, including tax incentives offered by the Government of Spain in December 2012 were launched by the City "evil and discriminatorily" for small businesses, since only recently affected trade openness and amounts not reached the 90% bonus in some taxes such as IBI and IAE, so that left out the vast majority of trade settled in the city.

"Today the situation is bleak, most shops are closed that open because the policy conducted by the PP government of La Glorieta was wrong and now spend oblivious to this problem," Castro ends.

Source: PSOE Murcia