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López Miras: "2018 will be the most positive year in the recent history of the Region of Murcia"
The president of the Community offers the message of the end of the year, which highlights the employment data and that the Government's objective "more than economic growth, is the well-being of people"
Highlights the arrival of High Speed ​​to the Region, the opening of the International Airport and the construction of the Northwest Arc
He assures, with respect to the drought situation, that his demand "will not change: I am with the farmers and irrigators, and I will defend their claims as their own, where and when it is necessary"
The head of the regional executive highlights the elimination of the "clearly unjust" tax on inheritance and donations, his commitment to the Mar Menor, and "the great impact" of the Jubilee Year of Caravaca
The president of the Community, Fernando López Miras, said during his institutional message for the end of the year that "2018 will be the most positive year in the recent history of the Region of Murcia" and encouraged "all" to "build together a present and a future of new opportunities. "
Lopez Miras addressed all Murcia in what was his first Christmas message as president of the Community, which began referring to economic recovery and job creation, which said that "have taken firm steps."
He also assured that the objective of the regional government, "more than economic growth, is the welfare of the people".
In this sense, the head of the regional government stressed that this year more than 20,000 people have found a job in the Region of Murcia and said that "we have more than 550,000 men and women contributing to Social Security, we create employment at a faster rate than the average of the country and we are going to end the year with 315,000 people with an indefinite contract, something that has not happened since before the crisis ".
He remarked that "these figures place us as one of the autonomous regions driving employment creation", and clarified that "I do not work for the figures, but for the people".
Thus, he stressed that "the most positive of these challenges that we are reaching is that behind each job there is a face, a person with a name and surname".
The president of the Community said that "this is only the beginning" and alluded to the "push and work of all" to create "new and better jobs".
He stressed that the objective that defines the road map of the regional government is "create quality employment, stable and with wages that should increase once we have spent the most difficult years."
"That is what is fair and is what we are going to do," he said.
Elimination of taxes and regional financing
During his message, Fernando López Miras highlighted the elimination of the "clearly unjust" tax on inheritance and donations as of January 1.
"So we said we were going to do it, and we have done that," the president said, adding that "we will follow that line of work because where money is better is in the pockets of citizens, and less taxes means more employment, more development and more freedom for people ".
He also referred to the need to approve a new model of regional financing "to eliminate discrimination and the unfair treatment with which the previous one punished the Region of Murcia".
In this regard, explained that "each Murcia must receive the same amount as any other Spanish to address their essential services" and stressed the commitment of the Government of Spain "to address, from dialogue and agreement, a solution to this problem "
2018 will be the year of infrastructures
"The year that begins will allow us to see some of the historic claims of the Region of Murcia concluded," said the president, who referred to the High Speed.
"In 2018 we will see the first trains that will bring us significantly to Madrid, Valencia, or Barcelona," said Lopez Miras, adding that this is "an achievement that this year should also continue to advance on the lines to Cartagena and Lorca" .
He stressed that the arrival of High Speed ​​will be "fulfilling, with facts very palpable, our commitment to bury all rail traffic on its arrival in the city of Murcia."
In addition, he highlighted the award of the International Airport of the Region, "which will also open its doors in 2018 and fulfill the purpose with which it was built: be useful for our growth, for the creation of employment and to connect us to the world".
He also mentioned the advances in roads and referred to "strategic projects like the one announced this week in Murcia by President Rajoy to build the so-called Northwest Arc".
"Projects that will make our communications easier, the work of our companies and that will allow our coastline, our beaches, our interior, to remain an international tourist reference".
In this regard, he referred to the recovery of the Mar Menor, for which he said that "2018 should also be a key year".
"We are completely committed, we have already achieved remarkable progress and, with all the prudence, but also with the utmost conviction, I assure you that we will see a more than positive evolution in the coming months," he said.
"I'm with the farmers and irrigators"
The president of the Community also spoke about water during his message to mark the end of the year in the Region of Murcia.
He said that "the drought has made 2017 one of the years with less rainfall in our history" and referred to the water deficit as "a very serious problem for all of Spain, but more in the Region of Murcia."
"Our water deficit is structural, goes beyond a punctual lack of rain and, moreover, many more food and higher quality are produced here than anywhere else, with the minimum amount of water available," said López Miras, who added that "nobody saves so much, manages better, refines and reuses as it is done in the Murcian countryside".
He said that "in Spain there is enough water to meet our demands, although it is necessary for everyone to be aware that its use must respond to a common technical criterion, national in scope, supportive and alien to the malicious confrontations with which some have wanted to do water policy ".
"My demand, as president, is known and will not change: I am with mine, with the farmers from Murcia, with the irrigators, and I will defend their claims as their own, where and when necessary," said López Miras, who stressed that it is "a clear requirement that is not at odds with the need to seek consensus, to convince everyone that our claim is also theirs".
Thus, he referred to the need to guarantee the right of all Spaniards to water, "including through the incorporation, in a possible constitutional reform, of provisions that prevent this right from being torpedoed, what I have come to call, with all clarity, an article 155 of water ".
A Region that grows looking at people
Fernando López Miras also alluded in his message to the situation in Catalonia, which he referred to as "an unprecedented challenge to our legal system, our democracy and our right to decide together our future."
Thus, he said that "we have managed to emerge victorious from this challenge by reaffirming our commitment to democracy, to Spain and our full confidence in the Constitution as the fundamental rule of the State."
He also mentioned "the great impact" that has reached the Jubilee Year of Caravaca de la Cruz, and highlighted tourism, agriculture and industry as "key sectors that will continue to be protagonists of our development."
He said that the regional government faces the new year "with enthusiasm" and stressed that "we are closer to an objective that belongs to everyone, to a Region that grows always looking at people".
"My commitment is to work so that all the purposes you have set for the New Year, those of your family and friends and all the people who love you, are fulfilled in 2018," said the president of the Community, who wished "prosperity and hope "to all Murcia" in a Region whose base is people, families, solidarity and support to those who need us the most ".
Source: CARM