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- "Roque Ortiz and Mayor Ballesta will go to the annals of history because they are probably the only politicians in Spain or even the whole world to celebrate, rejoice and even boast that buildings in their city are not declared national heritage monuments historical Spanish "

- "The PP wants a cultural protection for its buildings that does not suppose any cut-off to its urbanistic projects"

- "In view of its urban planning objectives, the PP dispenses with everything that hinders them, whether it be the cultural heritage, the orchard, the neighborhoods of the South or whatever is ahead"

NOW MURCIA regrets that the mayor of Murcia and his councilor Roque Ortiz rejoice that the old provincial prison of Murcia is not declared a National Monument with the excuse that with the minimum protection that has enjoyed for decades is sufficient.

"They forget that with that same protection the building has almost collapsed," recalls Angeles Micol, "crumbling its central panopticon and part of its interior, and reaching the unfortunate present state." That is the protection that Mayor Ballesta and the PP, which proves to be of no use, which only protects on paper but allows our buildings and historical buildings to die slowly so that they can never be an obstacle in the project of any urban developer.

Micol points out that "Mr. Roque Ortiz and Mayor Ballesta will go to the annals of history because they are probably the only politicians in Spain or even the whole world to celebrate, rejoice and even boast that buildings in their city are not declared the national monuments of the Spanish historical heritage. "" The joy of the Popular Party that a Murcian building is not declared a Spanish Historical Monument reflects its narrowness and political and cultural myopia, and helps to explain why in Murcia the cultural heritage has been destroyed, and why we have been losing the historic center until we reach the deplorable state in which there are places already declared monuments, such as the castle of Monteagudo or a large part of historic buildings of the orchard Murcia.

The councilor of Now Murcia stresses that "if these political leaders in Murcia do not recognize the value of their cultural heritage, we must ask ourselves what example they are offering to the rest of society." Then it is not surprising that there is a lack of sensitivity when painted and the solution to that is not reparation, not even information campaigns for awareness: the solution happens much earlier because the administrations make a real policy of defense of the heritage, and transfer it to the citizens.

"It is sad to see that in Murcia we have a mayor and some PP councilors able to rejoice," he adds, "that a bipolar culture administration, unable to see unlicensed works on the campus of UCAM in the vicinity of the Jeronimos Monastery - even if they advertise in advertisements in radio and television newspapers - or move a single finger at the ruin of the historic site of Monteagudo or curb the agony of cultural heritage in the Huerta de Murcia, has decided in record time that the central building the Old Prison of Murcia does not deserve to be declared a Spanish Historical Monument, as if they were former prisons of other provinces.

Micol wonders why the municipal PP does this with his city, and finds a forceful reason: "Because they do not want to Murcia. They put their city on sale a long time ago and now there are only the balances. urban sprawl and unsuccessful infrastructures, and in this they continue, being essential what is obstructing this objective, whether it be the cultural heritage, the orchard, the neighborhoods of the South or what is put ahead.

The mayor acknowledges that "really none of this should surprise us, when those same councilors and mayor of the PP have been able to rejoice, celebrate and justify that the arrival of the AVE split in two halves the city, isolating entire neighborhoods and condemning thousands of Murcia to live on the other side of a wall ".

NOW MURCIA

Source: Ahora Murcia