UGT and CC OO, signatories of the initial document with the regional government, ask that the proposals of the socialists be included
The general secretary of the PSOE of the Region, José Vélez, met this Monday with the leaders of the UGT and CC OO unions, Antonio Jiménez and Santiago Navarro, to try to “enrich” the Pact for Infrastructures presented last June by the regional government, signed by more than 40 civil society entities and debated last week in the Regional Assembly.
Vélez, who recognized the work of the signatory organizations and appeared in a more conciliatory tone than last week, when he harshly attacked the initial document of the López Miras Executive, sought the complicity of the unions so that his proposals come to fruition , and criticized that the PP “has not even wanted to hear about the infrastructures proposed by the PSOE”, mostly direct competence of the Community and claimed by the City Councils, “and has left them all out”.
Vélez made it clear that “we do not want to break the Pact”, but “that the document contemplates all the infrastructures that the Region needs so that it can continue advancing”.
The general secretary of CC OO, Santiago Navarro, recalled that his union and also the UGT signed the Pact proposed by the regional government, but the document presented by the socialists is “complementary” to the initial text of June, which was “open and improvable”. Navarro recalled that the two unions support the Pact they signed “one hundred percent”, but also made it clear that the Regional Government’s Strategic Infrastructure Plan is still pending publication, “being an opportune moment to include second-level needs” included in the document presented by the Socialists and that “are also fundamental for the development of this region”. Likewise, the leader of CC OO demanded that the Pact for Infrastructure “have a monitoring commission of which the central government is also a part.”
For his part, the general secretary of the UGT, Antonio Jiménez, recognized the “new needs that the Socialist Party has detected to incorporate the Pact for Infrastructures”. Jiménez also acknowledged that the initial Pact included “most of the union’s proposals”, but he does not see “any impediment” to including “all the investments that the PSOE has identified a posteriori, mainly at the municipal level”, which called “very necessary” for the development of the Region of Murcia. Of course, he also recognized “interesting and timely” that in that same document “all the infrastructures that depend on the State are already collected, even if they are in the execution phase.”
Jiménez criticized, however, that the Pact “establishes a plenary with representation of all the signatory organizations, a monitoring committee and a roadmap for all the candidates to reach the Regional Assembly, with the idea of joining efforts and enriching the text” . And this, in his opinion, “has not been fulfilled.” That is why the UGT leader asked that “all the infrastructures that are worthy of being included in the pact, and that enrich the document that we all signed in June, be respected.” That is why he announced that his union “is going to take all the proposals” of the PSOE to that plenary session, “above partisan interests.” Because “the isolation that the Region of Murcia has suffered for decades is well enough” in terms of infrastructure
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