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The national deputy of this formation, Ricardo Sixto, promised to seek the agreement between the parliamentarians of PP, PSOE, C's and Unidos Podemos so that, together, they promote initiatives that guarantee the financing necessary for the start-up of the new factory

The national deputy of Izquierda Unida, Ricardo Sixto, will contact the parliamentarians of the Murcia district to request "institutional support" to the project to build the new slaughterhouse in Lorca, which requires an investment of 40 million euros and could give direct employment to Half thousand workers.

In a meeting held yesterday with members of the management of the Food Group Lorca and its business committee, which was also attended by MEP Paloma López and the councilors of IU-Verdes Pedro Sosa and Gloria Martín, Sixto expressed the need for the Municipality has facilities "that are a benchmark for the livestock sector both in the region of Guadalentín and in the Region of Murcia.

The deputy of IU pointed out the need for the institutions to join the effort of the workers to maintain the productive fabric and to collaborate in obtaining aid at the regional, state or European level.

"If Lorca's large industries do not prosper, small and medium-sized auxiliary companies will suffer, as will trade and the services sector," he said.

A project marked by suspicion of PP

For his part, Pedro Sosa, recalled that the slaughterhouse workers have been working for more than a decade to set up facilities that will double existing jobs and open markets in countries such as China, Japan or Korea.

During this time, the project has suffered the misgivings of the PP, who already in 2005 abstained in the approval of the urban agreement by which the Food Group of Lorca would get 17 million euros for the sale of the land where the current slaughterhouse is located , Money needed to finance a significant part of the new infrastructure.

Already in power, the municipal government team of Francisco Jodar was delayed in the bureaucratic procedure essential for the resolution of this agreement and failed to fulfill its commitment to make available to the promoters of this meat industry an urbanized land of 82,000 m2 in the polygon Of Serrata, with water, electricity, sewage and other services.

The paralysis to which the PP submitted this project caused, in 2010, that the Food Group Lorca lost an autonomous subsidy of 9 million euros.

Finally, the company bought the land where the old Holcim cement company was located, which has allowed the reactivation of the initiative for which the aim is now to complete the financing.

In this sense, Pedro Sosa has insisted on the need for the City Council to bet "once and for all" on this new meat industry that, in his opinion, should be "the germ" of the development of the Serrata industrial estate and a " Key piece "to alleviate the" industrial desert "in which Lorca has become.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca