On the morning of Friday September 11, the mayor of Las Torres de Cotillas, Domingo Coronado, and the representative of the Platform for Defense of the Tajo-Segura, José Muñoz Clares, officially presented the membership of the Consistory Torreño promoted the campaign by that platform.
The ceremony took place in the Plenary Hall of the Consistory Torreño and he has attended almost all of the government team of Coronado.
In his speech, Mayor Torreño wanted to make clear "the conviction and the involvement of the City in this work, away from partisan zeal."
"The continuity of the Tajo-Segura is good for all Murcia and issues like this we must all unite to work in a same direction," he asserted the mayor Torreño.
Also, Coronado explained that the municipality will be launched next week 17 points to collect signatures, both in the town (in places such as the City Council, the OMIC, the Sports Centre or the dependencies of Urbanism, for example) and in the hamlets.
In these places will be-most-Torreño own town officials in charge, such as notaries, to collect and verify the validity of signatures.
Large losses
For his part, Muñoz Clares has affected the negative aspects of the elimination of the Tajo-Segura, and that its repeal would mean "the loss of about 200,000 jobs directly or indirectly to agriculture sector in Las Torres of Cotillas know much. "
Also pointed out that the platform has until the end of next January to collect 500,000 signatures that serve to successfully conclude the legislative initiative so we can move it to the Congress of Deputies.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas