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The councilman of Sports and Health, Felipe Coello, has responded this morning the words of the councilor of the socialist municipal group, Juan Vicente Larrosa, on the state of the Palace of Sports.

Coello explained that "the City Council of Murcia is aware of the current image offered by the Palacio de los Deportes, especially its external state, however, until today there has been no security problem, since it is located perimetrated the facade to avoid damage ".

"The most surprising thing is that the socialist councilors continue to have the moral value of asking for investments while showing no interest or commitment in supporting the accounts.In the 2018 budget there are 600,000 euros in the sports game for the arrangement of the facade Palacio de los Deportes, Well, the only way to get ahead and execute that much-needed investment is to commit to approve the budgets, which will be received next week, will they do it? "

"To this is added that there are already 280,000 euros for the works to fix the access stairs, a departure that will be approved in the plenary session of May, in total we are talking about an investment of close to one million euros, to reform the most important sports facility in the municipality. "

"It is clear that in sports, the socialist party talks about hearsay, since Mr. Larrosa's words are full of inventions, and neither the ACB nor any of its clubs has ever expressed displeasure or complained about the state of the Palace and its facilities ", explained Coello.

But in addition, he highlighted, in relation to the celebration of the Final Four of the Basketball Champions League, "we met with the FIBA ​​and the UCAM Murcia CB to know the possibility of Murcia hosting the tournament." The provision of the City Council was total and the commitment, with the international organization and the club, of reforming the lighting and including a video scoreboard (as rental with option to purchase) was adopted if Murcia was the chosen one Finally they chose the OAKA Pavilion of Athens, older than the Palace, for its capacity for about 20,000 spectators.

Source: PP Murcia