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This package of measures, which will be approved in the next municipal office that will take place next Tuesday, May 5, is produced to achieve the greatest benefit to the sectors most affected by this health crisis such as commerce and hospitality. The municipal groups Socialist Party, Citizens and Izquierda Unida Verdes agree on a social and economic revival plan to alleviate the effects of the coronavirus in Lorca.

The consensus of these three political forces is produced to achieve the greatest benefit to the sectors most affected by this health crisis, such as commerce and hospitality. This comprehensive package of measures is divided into three main blocks.

The first, of a social nature, 'people, first', incorporates the creation of a participatory body for monitoring the measures adopted, in which all political groups with municipal representation, municipal technicians, and social and economic agents of our country are represented.

city ??and includes measures to strengthen social services to meet the needs generated by this health pandemic; reinforcement of the Citizen Attention Office; the request to the national and regional administrations for the creation of a Special Plan for Local Public Employment; the increase of resources for attention and monitoring of victims of gender violence; guarantee equal opportunities for boys and girls in education.Also the reinforcement of cultural and leisure activities that are not in person and the implementation of a municipal youth plan adapted to new circumstances. Regarding the economic and fiscal measures, incorporated in the second block, the modification of the fiscal calendar will be executed and all possible payment facilities will be implemented in the payment of municipal taxes and fees.

In addition, the regulatory ordinance of the Tax on Construction, Installations and Works will be reduced by 95 percent; merchants and hoteliers who have been forced to close their businesses are exempt from paying garbage and water supply fees for four months, and payment for the placement of terraces during this year is stopped. As a support measure for freelancers and local companies, a municipal fund for self-employed workers and companies is launched through two help lines.

One of up to 500 euros for companies and the self-employed who have been forced to suspend its opening and which will be used to offset municipal taxes and a second line of up to 350 euros specifically for companies and freelancers that are dedicated to sale on the weekly market and supply squares. And, in order to reactivate, energize and promote local commerce, hospitality, tourism, culture and leisure, we will work closely with the collective social and economic agents involved, institutions and public administrations to adapt to the evolutionary dynamics of the Covid-19. In addition, the Government of Spain will be asked to allow the suspension of municipal fiscal rules and necessary policies can be addressed to protect the population from the consequences of the pandemic.

A second block in which the Government of the Region of Murcia is requested to adopt measures to minimize the effects of this health crisis such as the approval of a decree regulating the direct granting of urgent measures to the self-employed, aid for groups in risk of social exclusion or the reinforcement of the worker protection system.

Source: PSOE Lorca