València (EFE).- The mayoress of Valencia, María José Catalá, has asked the Government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, and the Department of Coasts of the Ministry for an “urgent” meeting to address “negotiated” solutions to the “closing of the beaches in the south of Valencia” for regeneration works.
This was stated in statements to the media before his visit to the Russafa Market, when asked if this closure would be effective as of August 15, to which he replied that they have “a document from the Ministry that says that on August 15 August you have to get the lifeguards out because the beaches have to be closed”.
Request a meeting with the government delegate
“What I am asking for is a meeting with the Government delegate, which has not been attended at the moment, but if the Government delegate cannot attend me because she has a very long agenda and has many activities, then I will go directly to the Ministry”, he stressed. .
In his opinion, this regeneration of the southern beaches is “interesting and necessary”, but “it has to be done outside the summer period”: “August 15 is August 15 in Valencia, and the southern beaches are beaches very frequented, where people who have not been able to go on vacation go, and it seems to me, of course, that better planning can be done”.
“With all my good will, I continue to throw down the gauntlet to the Government delegate and the Ministry,” assured the mayoress, who wondered if now in the central government “they are focused on the elections and they still think that after 23 of July they are not the ones who govern and that it does not matter what happens ”.
Catalá has affirmed that the city “is above that” and that the closure could be “very problematic for this city”, for which reason it has opted for “a negotiated, agreed solution”.
“I want us all to get together to give a solution to the people of the southern beaches and I, the electoral calculations, leave them aside,” he assured, and for this reason he has requested an “urgent” meeting with Bernabé and Costas to “postpone , or better reorganize those works”, for which he has said he knows that there are “three possible alternative solutions”.
Sidi Saler: “The solution is not demolition”
Asked about the statements of the councilor for Compromís Sergi Campillo, who has assured that the competition to demolish the Sidi Saler hotel belongs to Costas and not to the consistory, has assured that for her, “the solution is not demolition”.
“That decision was adopted with the sports center and it was not favorable for the neighbors or for the environment; today what was the old sports center of Sidi Saler is a place of ruin, it is a place of damage, of dirt ”, he considered.
This demolition, he stated, “has not been a good decision, neither for the environment, nor for the neighbors, nor for anyone” and he has stated that “the problems that a demolition can cause are much greater than the work of looking for a solution adapted to the environment in which we find ourselves”, something in which he is already working with municipal technicians.
“I know that the old municipal government said no by system. I never say no as a matter of course, I study it”, he stated, and concluded: “if it can be, a solution will be found that coincides with what the neighbors and the environment want”.