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The councilor of the Municipal Socialist Group, Maite Espinosa, has denounced on Monday the poor state of conservation and maintenance that some areas of the municipal cemetery Our Father Jesus presents and has demanded to the government of Ballast "to elaborate a plan of action inside the cemetery , Which now contrast well-conditioned areas with others totally abandoned, without corridors, which have to walk directly on the land and in which there are many broken flagstones and open tombs.

"The municipal cemetery has areas of first and third areas, as occurs between neighborhood and districts of the municipality of Murcia managed by the PP," explained Espinosa, who has criticized that "although the Department of Development has conditioned the access and the Environment, that of Health, in charge of councilman Felipe Coello, is not executing the budgeted for investments inside the cemetery.

Espinosa pointed out that, as of 30 September, the 2016 investment item of € 150,000 had not yet been touched, an even more bleeding event, bearing in mind that the year 2015 closed without investing the budgeted € 400,000.

"We find a cemetery that needs actions to improve and fix the corridors, streets and, especially, the necropolis itself, while there are budget items for investment that are kept in the drawer and then, we imagine, serve the PP to show off surplus, "said the mayor.

The councilor of the PSOE has insisted that "in the cemetery of Murcia live two realities that seem to belong to two different cemeteries.On the one hand there are newer areas with better access and well-paced areas of passage.On the other, there are extensions of land With diverse tombs that can only be accessed by walking the cemetery itself - which becomes mud when it rains - and which would be more typical of small rural cemeteries than a cemetery of the size and characteristics of Murcia, seventh city of Spain " , Has affected Espinosa.

Celebrities

As for the idea of ​​the Ballesta government to draw up a list of celebrities buried in the municipal cemetery, the Socialist councilor said: "We think it's great that it is proposed to make the cemetery of Murcia a tourist enclave, as announced Ballesta a At the beginning of November, if this implies a substantial improvement inside the premises, otherwise what visitors can see today are areas with perfectly aligned aisles and marble slabs and areas without access roads, with tombs surrounded by Mud, broken or directly disappeared slabs ".

The mayor of the PSOE has also indicated that "if the government of Ballesta intends to guide visitors by the burials of celebrities of the municipality of Murcia, should first dedicate themselves to fix some of their tombs, such as the writer Ricardo Gil, who Currently it is in very bad state of conservation, improper of an important personality for our municipality ".

"To have a surplus is very good, but it is even more important to invest what is presupposed in arranging what needs to be fixed. Municipal management can not be based only on advertisements and photos, it must directly affect the municipality, and that includes the cemetery ", He concluded.

Source: PSOE Murcia