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From the PSOE express the need for an "alternative plan" so that, if the Francisca Community of the Convent finally takes place, it can continue to be maintained and be available to Lorca and the Lorca as the religious headquarters of the Patron of the city and as a space for public use by the City Council.

The Spokesman of the PSOE in the City of Lorca, Diego José Mateos Molina, has shown his concern about the situation in which the facilities of the Virgen de las Huertas Convent will remain before the departure of the Franciscan Community, a fact that regrets what It seems to be an irrevocable decision, although he expresses his wish that this will not happen in the end and shows his predisposition to fight for the permanence of this community so beloved and so rooted in our city.

Due to this circumstance, Mateos has stated that there must be an "alternative plan" for, if this march finally takes place, "what to do" with facilities that have been maintained by the Franciscan community since 1466, after their arrival in Lorca and They are also home to the Patroness of the city, the Virgen de las Huertas.

The socialist spokesman recalls that it is a Monumental Complex declared BIC since 2014, as well as the Tota Pulchra and the Caliphal Palace;

for that Mateos points out- the public administrations have to take action in this matter, since it is a good in which important investments of public money have been made that must continue to be patrimony of Lorca and the Lorca.

In this sense, the proposal that Mateos makes to the Mayor of Lorca is that in the next interviews he has with the Franciscan Community and the Bishopric "request and negotiate" the transfer of temporary or definitive form of the Convent to the City of Lorca, or through a free transfer as the recent cession of the Mill of the Escarambrujo, or by means of an agreed onerous cession, so that in this way indicates - the City council takes charge of the use and maintenance of this Monumental Set respecting the uses of religious cult and of the own Brotherhood of the Virgen de las Huertas, and establishing a cultural destination in a broad sense for it, so that it can be the venue for exhibitions and cultural associations, as well as being able to be visited by Lorca and serve as a tourist attraction over the city.

In this way, says Mateos, "the maintenance by the City Council of one of the most important monumental complexes in the city of Lorca, much loved by the Lorca for hosting the Patron of the city and winning new spaces would be guaranteed. of use for Lorca's society as a whole ", insisting that" this must be only an alternative in case the march of the Franciscan community finally takes place ", expressing its resounding desire not to occur and for which Show your offer to collaborate to make it so.

Source: PSOE Lorca