The City Council of Jumilla has learned through the BOE that the second call for aid to Sustainable and Integrated Urban Development Strategies co-financed through the FEDER program for sustainable growth has also again left the municipality.
The entire budget will go to the city of Murcia, which will receive 15 million euros, without any of these funds for the other municipalities in the Region.
The mayor, Juana Guardiola, said: "This is bad news for Jumilla, but it should not be classified as a failure because the work has been done as it should. We present allegations at the first call, despite That we were told that they were not necessary, because they were not going to take it into account, although our project was very good. For this second call, the project we presented was modified according to the indications given by us from the Ministry, He anticipated that surely the project that would be approved in this second call would be the one of Murcia, as it has been ".
Referring to the press release issued by the PP on this matter, Councilor for Economy, Juan Gil, has stated that: "We regret once again his attitude to the denial of what would have been an important aid for Jumilla. , The derogatory tone to refer to the company that elaborated a project in which all the social agents of the locality participated and even they.The contracted company has done an impeccable work and has a proven trajectory in different local and regional administrations of different Political sign.It is a serious company that all Jumilla has had an opportunity to know closely, not as in the case, for example, the one that did the audit that the previous government commissioned, also from outside and that nobody knew ".
Gil Mira also added that "in the previous legislature there was also opportunity to apply for this aid, then even more economic, but not even tried."
Finally, the highest local authority has indicated that Jumilla will continue to insist and will be presented to the third call "so that it has the option to be chosen again, once covered the priorities that we anticipated the Mar Menor, presented by the CARM itself, And Murcia.We hope to bet, not only by large cities that have other possibilities, but by the development of small towns and territories of vital importance for the economy Murcia as Jumilla.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla