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Progress and Democracy Union, through its spokesman, Ruben Juan Serna, falling sales value of retailing in Murcia as "the result of betting on a trade model that has encouraged the proliferation of supermarkets and retail parks" .

To Serna, "more and more traders are forced to close," something "is not the exclusive result of the economic crisis" but also "by the encouragement of the malls that has ruined much of the traditional trade."

In that sense, the mayor of the image UPyD regrets "daunting" of empty shop space has already become "unfortunately all too common."

"This business model has been the last straw that has finished top of the small trading town and small towns."

Serna welcomes initiatives carried out as Outlet Fair held recently in support of retail, but stressed that "much more is needed."

Meanwhile, the regional coordinator of UPyD, Rafael Sanchez said the data made public by the National Statistics Institute (INE), reflecting a significant decline in retail sales in the Region of Murcia "are the result of two measures are totally wrong as the increase in VAT and labor reform. "

For Sanchez, only opposite results have achieved what was intended.

"Instead of hiring more and more income in the end we have the opposite", more unemployment and a drop in sales.

Moreover, this "we must add the suppression of Christmas bonus," other measures will cause serious prejudice to the families, "they will see their purchasing power reduced", and by extension to trade, "which will revenues suffer. "

Source: UPyD Murcia