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Gloria Mart n assured that it is not enough to lament, because the municipal government team can promote policies that help to remove the problem of gambling from the population, especially the youngest .

For this reason, he proposed up to seven measures of local competition, including a pact of the municipal groups so that in the processes of granting municipal subsidies those entities that receive financing from betting house advertising are excluded. The councilor of Izquierda Unida-Verdes, Gloria Mart n, has echoed the concern expressed by the mayor of Lorca, Diego Jos Mateos (PSOE), about the proliferation of drug addiction behaviors game, especially among the local youth. Mart n reminded Mateos that although the competences on gambling belong to the autonomous community, "it is not enough to lament, because the City Council can promote policies that contribute to removing the problem of gambling from the population, especially the youngest.

" Gloria Mart n highlighted up to eight concrete actions that the Lorca City Council could implement to fight against this addiction, which has among its serious consequences academic failure, labor, economic, social and / or problems.

or legal. The most important measure is to address the modification in the General Municipal Planning Plan to introduce urban limitations to the implantation of gambling establishments in residential areas, with the aim of increasing drastically the distance between the betting houses and the sports, cultural, educational and youth leisure centers, as the municipalities of Alcal de Guada ra and Mairena (Seville), Burgos or C rdoba have already done.

A proposal that IU has defended in the municipal plenary on several occasions, "without any local government having yet moved a tab while the betting houses have proliferated in our neighborhoods."Mart n said that this measure would entail the application of a moratorium to suspend the granting of licenses to these premises while the urban regulations are changed. The councilor of IU-Verdes also proposed that the municipal government team set up social centers managed directly by the youth where they can develop dignified leisure "that enhances knowledge, sports and the arts." Likewise, Mart n asked for informational activities to be carried out in educational centers, within the framework of the prevention of addictions generated by gambling and gambling, to inform about health risks and problems p to young people.

In this sense, Mart n stressed that the City Council can fight against juvenile gambling "by guaranteeing access to culture and sports, by promoting activities and artistic, cultural and sports centers accessible to all the population ". Gloria Mart n also asked the Mayor to ask local soccer teams and their players to collaborate in campaigns "so that sport is not identified with gambling." "It is important that the idols of our young people assume their social responsibility," said Mart n, who asked Mateos that the City Council not sign collaboration agreements or sponsorships with sports entities that advertise the houses of bets. The mayor of IU-Verdes also encouraged Mateos to approve an advertising ordinance that regulates the removal of billboards from game rooms or betting houses from urban furniture or public space . Finally, Mart n has invited the first mayor to sign a pact of all municipal groups so that the City Council refrains from having the sponsorship of betting companies in municipal public events, or so that in the Grant-awarding processes exclude those entities that receive advertising funding from bookmakers. The IU councilor recalled that Lorca has a games room for every 4,046 inhabitants, similar to the regional average and twice that of libraries, and that this autonomous community is, by a large difference, the one with the highest density of bookmakers per inhabitant.

This type of premises are located in neighborhoods with lower income and close to educational centers, "where the lack of expectations and a stable future is the perfect breeding ground to feed this addiction," said Mart n, who demanded from the municipal government team "all the efforts that are in our hands to minimize this threat to our young people." function { ;(, , {});}

Source: IU-verdes Lorca