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- The text of Ahora Murcia approved in the Plenary of January 2016 established that the plan was drafted in the first half of that year.

In July 2016, Conchita Ruiz said that the municipal strategy would be developed in the first half of 2017

- The amendment of Ahora Murcia also contemplated the creation of a Universal Accessibility Ordinance, "likewise without creating"

- The municipal group has also asked the municipal government today if it plans to attend the call for grants for accessibility recently published in the BORM and that expires on November 22.

NOW MURCIA today requested explanations to the PP about the "great delay" in the development of the Municipal Accessibility Plan, which should have been prepared in the first half of 2016. Alicia Morales affirms that this municipal strategy does not stop accumulating delays, since " in July 2016 the Councilor for Social Rights, Conchita Ruiz, said that the plan would be drawn up in the first half of 2017, but we are finishing the year and we are still not hearing from him. "

Morales recalls that the creation of the Municipal Accessibility Plan "was an amendment presented by Ahora Murcia to a motion approved in the Plenary of January 2016. The amendment, in addition to contemplating that the plan was prepared in the first semester of that year, included the elaboration of a Universal Accessibility Ordinance, which is also not created ".

The spokeswoman of Ahora Murcia notes that in the Social Council of the City, held a few days ago at City Hall, "several groups expressed their concern that they still do not see the light in the municipality plan or the ordinance of accessibility, so we urge Conchita Ruiz once again to give a definite boost to the creation of both. "

"There is also the circumstance," says the mayor, "that the General Law on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and their Social Inclusion establishes the imminent December 4, 2017 as the maximum term for all products, goods, environments and services are accessible, in accordance with the basic conditions of non-discrimination and universal accessibility ".

The Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (CERMI State) emphasizes that "universal accessibility is a human rights issue, and the absence of it implies discrimination and violation of them."

The Municipal Accessibility Plan and the Universal Accessibility Ordinance seek to guarantee, as Morales points out, "access to citizenship for municipal services and facilities for public use, as well as those related to mobility and communication. fundamental issues for the creation of a more livable municipality and a more just society, and that is why the Department of Social Rights and the City of Murcia must address these issues firmly and with the utmost promptness. "

Murcia has also asked today in writing to the municipal government about whether it plans to apply to the call for subsidies to local corporations for the adaptation of pedestrian routes and street furniture accessibility conditions and universal design, "call published in the BORM of the past November 9 and whose term expires on the 22nd of this month. "

Alicia Morales emphasizes that it would be "very interesting that the City Council opts for these grants, so we encourage you to do so, and we ask that you inform us of the projects, if any, that you submit."

Source: Ahora Murcia