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Both political formations will present a joint motion in the plenary session tomorrow so that six points already approved in relation to Emuasa and two new ones are met, demanding that the City Council "really" control the company and that an extraordinary economic investment plan be drawn up. the water network in the municipality
The Municipal Socialist Group, through the councilor Enrique Ayuso;
and that of Cambiemos Murcia, through the spokesperson Nacho Tornel, will defend in the plenary session of tomorrow a motion so that the management of Emuasa, a company owned by the City of Murcia by 51%, will impact on the citizens in a different way. as it does now and that prevents Murcia and Murcia pay water at the highest price in Spain.
Ayuso and Tornel have so stated today before the media in an intervention that has been held in the Plaza de la Glorieta, in front of the main facade of the Consistory, and in which they have missed a greater financial and management control in a company that presents benefits and that, nevertheless, applies rates that are much higher than the average.
"We ask that the public part of the company regain control, because for that the City Council has 51% of the shareholding and the private part has 49%, which belongs to the Hidrogea group, all the works contracts and the services that are bid by Emuasa have to be audited by the Local Administration and should appoint a manager who was a public employee, "have defended both councilors.
The high price of water in the municipality is an established fact, as shown by the studies carried out by consumer and user associations -28.43 euros for 10 cubic meters and 49.29 for 20 cubic meters, with the national average in 17.01 and 35.88, respectively.
"While the residents of Murcia pay the most expensive water in Spain, we see that the company distributes some profits each year of about five million euros. What is the sense of a municipal company, which provides a basic service, the supply of drinking water, and does it in a situation of monopoly have benefits while the receipt of water is the most expensive? ", ask Ayuso and Tornel while pointing out that the network is" clearly obsolete. "
Net worth, which is the result of capital contributions from partners and reserves or profits generated and not distributed by the company, has decreased considerably in recent years in the case of Emuasa, from 47 million from 2012 to 39 of 2017 in a municipality with 450,000 users and that is the seventh capital of the province of Spain.
This has been helped by the fact that in the past year, benefits were distributed among members worth more than four million euros, something that can be criticized "when each town asks for adjustments to be made in the water network and it gets stuck", according to Ayuso and Tornel, who have recalled that there are more than 100 works pending execution: "Only 12 of the 40 million foreseen in investments have been executed".
For all this, to improve the efficiency of Emuasa, the two councilors, who also see "lack of transparency in the management and recruitment of personnel in this company," will raise a proposal to meet six points related to the company's waters already approved in previous plenary sessions, specifically since July 2015.
To this will be added the claim of two new aspects that have to do with the City Council taking control of the management of Emuasa and with which an extraordinary economic plan of investments complementary to the one approved for the year 2019 is drawn up based on the benefits obtained by the company.
Source: PSOE Murcia
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