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The Municipal Socialist Group has accused the municipal government team of "selling the municipality to the companies that own the gaming rooms in an irresponsible and disorderly manner", so, according to councilor Maite Espinosa, "it is essential that the City of Murcia stop the proliferation of this type of business that goes against the health and well-being of neighbors, especially the youngest. "

For this reason, he announced that he will present an initiative to the next Plenary, because "although this issue is increasingly worrying for our society, where both parents' associations and the students themselves have already raised the alarm, the PP, as always, he ignores it, because he lives with his back to reality and, before this situation goes on, it is necessary to adopt the relevant decisions to stop it ".

The councilor, who recalled that the Region of Murcia leads the ranking of communities as more gaming and betting rooms, has warned that "the most serious thing is that many of these rooms, with licenses granted in 2017, are being located in the In the vicinity of the educational centers, what is a real nonsense, then we should not be surprised that gambling becomes a problem among adolescents and young people. "

Espinosa explained that "the City Council has the obligation to defend its neighbors and recalled that since the PSOE we have presented initiatives, including the proposal to reform all the regional rules of games and betting in the Regional Assembly, which the PP has locked".

In addition, the councilor will ask Mayor Ballesta if he knows how many games and betting rooms there are in the municipality, and how many of them are authorized by the Autonomous Community without having started the reform works.

"We are constantly reading news that offers us tremendously disturbing data, for example, that the Region has the largest number of betting venues in Spain, which engage an increasingly younger population, so we highlight the availability of the largest proportion per inhabitant of all Spain and Europe, in addition to the profile of the user has dropped to an age between 17 and 28 years, and the games that have more pull are roulette and sports betting, "pointed Espinosa .

Source: PSOE Murcia