He Smaller It is a salty lagoon that is located in the Region of Murcia and that belongs to the municipalities of Cartagena and San Javier. It has a very broad biodiversity with several endemismsbut is affected by a variety of problems that are gradually ending with their existence.
For several years, it has been present with several areas with obvious signs of eutrophization due to excess nutrients that arrive from the Rambla del Albujón that joins the runoffs of much of the crops of the Campo de Cartagena. To this we must add the serious problems related to tourism, such as massification, wastewater, garbage generation, etc.
With the aim of protecting Smaller Several victories were achieved, one of them was to obtain the legal personality of the Smaller and the other to establish a Mar Menor Protection Law, which since the zero minute has been boycotted by right -wing parties They claim that farmers are being victimized, when it is evident that the situation worsens and nothing is done.
Mar Menor must be protected
The parliamentary groups of the Regional Assembly may not discuss the taking into consideration of a proposal to reform the Law of Recovery and Protection of the Smaller until next legislative year, after having rejected the plenary on Tuesday the proposal presented by the Mixed Group (Podemos-Iu/V-AV) on this matter.
The request of the Mixed Group, defended by its deputy Víctor Egío by recovering from a small surgical intervention spokeswoman María Marín, It consists of an exhibition of reasons, three articles and a final disposal. His takes into consideration has only been supported by the PSOE, despite not agreeing with the content, he is in favor that groups can discuss their proposals before the Chamber.
Egío has warned farmers that the regional government is “cheating” because “nor do they intend to strengthen the protection of the lagoon, nor to fulfill the promises they made to the agricultural sector“You have to work to avoid the next echocide”.
In this regard, he explained that they have occurred Three echocides in Mar Menor, the first two “affected marine life” after a massive fish mortality, and the third occurred last weekend affecting migratory birds and their chicksin reference to the “hell” unleashed by a fire in the place of La Hita, between San Javier and Los Alcázares, a protected space of great biodiversity.
Egío believes that This fire has been intentional and that urban interests would be hidden behindwhich is why its proposition of law includes an “indefinite and exceptions” urban moratorium to end the “nonsense” of concrete and cement in the environment of the Smaller.
The parliamentarian of the Socialist Group, Manuel Sevilla, recalled that the Assembly has a Special Commission for the Reform of the Law of Mar Menor that, although it has not been able to meet monthshas not yet ordered the appearances proposed by the PSOE. Therefore, he has urged the mixed group to take his proposals to this commission.
“If the Government of Spain and that of the Region of Murcia are reaching agreements to protect the SmallerWhy are we not going to reach the assembly groups to agreements? ”Seville has asked, while asking the regional executive to Act to renaturalize the Hita environment affected by fire and restore the destroyed catwalks.
The spokesman of the Vox Group, José Ángel Antelo, has criticized the “deception of PP and PSOE” regarding the commission, since “if only the assembly was dedicated to the appearances, it would take a year”, which is why his training has abandoned it. “We will not allow the farmers to continue to be criminalized”, Has warned, holding the law of the Smaller of the closing of the Tajo-Segura transfer.
Antelo has reiterated that the urban moratorium is “a red line” for Vox Because it means suspending the Constitution in an area, it has advocated eliminating the collaborating entities of the Agrarian Administration of the Region of Murcia (ECARM), as well as by Remove Alamo from the law, start the extractions of the aquifer.
By the popular group, Deputy María Luisa Casajús, Ha defended appearances in the Mar Menor commission as a process of “effective listening”. “Listening to the other is not a weakness, it is an essential principle of deliberative democracy and a political obligation if we want to build real, durable and shared solutions,” he said.
Casajús has criticized the “partisan attitude of some groups” that, in their opinion, “have slowed the process”, as well as the “arguments loaded with a great ideology” presented by the mixed group. For the PP parliamentarian, “Presenting this proposal outside the agreed frame rejects any possibility of consensus”.