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Murcia change received with amazement the words of José Ballesta, candidate for mayor of Murcia, declaring enthusiastically wish the SOS 4.8 festival was held in the capital once a month.

We can not but express our concern at the position in culture adopting these declarations, the head of the list of municipal PP.

SOS 4.8, the flagship of the cultural policy of regional PP festival, is certainly an excellent pop festival, which year after year macroevents compete in quality with the likes of FIB, Primavera Sound and Sonar, among others.

Unlike these, which operate with private funding, the SOS 4.8 depends, however, large public subsidies.

These subsidies absorb much of the shrinking budget of the Ministry of Culture of the Community, which has fallen by almost 80% since the glory years of Pedro Alberto Cruz.

Murcia change, as the vast majority of political and cultural organizations active in the region, understand that this waste in commercial macroevents, which operate without public funding in many places, while budgetary strangles culture base, creators and cultural agents Murcia and more sustainable events (like the Festival de Jazz de Murcia or Lorca Rock, now defunct), is an affront to the musicians and Murcia artistic agents and their public as well as a clear commitment to the neoliberal model, which understands culture as a resource, rather than as a right.

Change Murcia believes that the benefits of public investment in culture can not be measured in terms of hotel occupancy, even with such spectacular (and suspicious) advertises the PP figures these days.

Murcia change manifests finally unwavering commitment to culture as a right, and therefore poses for our town a cultural policy designed for everyone from fans to bands Morrissey the districts, from artists starting up the collecting awards abroad.

Murcia with the creators and cultural agents, living an extraordinary moment despite the lack of party support Ballesta, Murcia's change.

Source: Cambiemos Murcia