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NOW MURCIA today requested a copy of the file and documentation related to the decision of the Plenary Session of the City of Murcia, in 2007, to renounce the preferential acquisition rights with respect to water and sanitation in the municipality, apparently based on reports from their own company and not the municipal legal services, according to the judicial investigation and has been made public these days.

The objective of the municipal training is to know with what criteria and based on which reports such a decision was made, and what were the technical and economic arguments that justified that the Consistory approved to keep the management in the hands of a private company -Aquagest, today Hidrogea - and not even assess the possibility of remunicipalizar the service, as deduced from the minutes of these sessions, which Murcia has now consulted and reflect that the decision was approved unanimously by all groups and without debate in the Commission or the Full.

Now Murcia is perplexed by the fact that a matter of such importance for our municipality was approved in that way, unanimously and without debate, despite the fact that water management in the municipality yields results as Murcians pay the bill of the most expensive water in the country.

The Tax Agency is investigating the City of Murcia in the framework of the 'Pokemon case', specifically its relations with the Agbar group, which includes Tribugest (a municipal public company that manages taxes) and Hidrogea (a private part of the public company Aguas of Murcia-Emuasa).

The municipal training has examined the 2007 minutes of the Plenary and Plenary Committee in which the Corporation approved to waive the preferential acquisition right of 49% of Emuasa's private capital, provided for in the bylaws of this mixed private-public company, on the occasion of of the constitution of Aquagest Región de Murcia SA.

Murcia now wonders if the City Council opted to defend private benefits above the general interest, by betting to continue with a water management model that today is not subject to a public inspection that offers maximum guarantees to the public, At the same time it is revealing itself to be very expensive and riddled with alleged irregularities and bad practices. Before all this, Now Murcia, who is involved in the 'Pokemon case' since last March, asks what the families of the Municipality of Murcia when they pay the water bill.

Source: Ahora Murcia