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The versatility of the city’s infrastructure multiplies the massive events that fulfill and benefit hospitality, commerce, and tourism
More than 120 delegates will analyze the last four years of work that have formed the twelfth mandate and will choose management bodies of CC.OOO in the Murcia region for the next four years
Fulgencio Gil Jódar, Primary: «Unity is very present in agriculture that is going through a crucial moment due to the new rules of the Tajo-Segura transfer».
Thursday, May 22, 2025. The versatility of the infrastructure, such as the Margarita Lozano Auditorium, within the fairs and the Congress Complex; the fairgrounds of the wheel garden; Sututlana COSO, the parking lot near the old Merced monastery, El Castillo, and the different squares of the Old City have multiplied the events found in Lorca that benefit from hospitality, commerce, and tourism. This was stated on Thursday by the mayor, Fulgencio Gil Jódar, who participated in the opening of the Tenth Regional Congress of the Workers’ Commissions which will close on Friday.
During the opening day, the mayor emphasized the city’s importance in organizing this type of event. «Once again, we are hosts. And we do it for a Regional Congress that brings together over 120 delegates who will analyze the last four years of work that have formed the twelfth mandate and will choose the management bodies of the workers’ commissions in the Murcia region for the next four years.»
Under the theme responses. New challenges, same struggle «is expected to analyze the last four years of work and set socio-political lines, as well as choose organizational management bodies in the Murcia region.» And among the renewal of the bodies, there will be a change in the General Secretariat, which for eight years was led by Santiago Navarro Meseguer. A man with a broad trajectory has demonstrated with the massive presence of delegates, over 120, who will gather in Lorca these days. And with 26,000 affiliates, mostly from the agricultural sector.»
Precisely, agriculture was one of the issues addressed by Gil Jódar during his participation on the opening day. «An agriculture that supplies fruits and vegetables to most European countries. We are the Garden of Europe, but we can stop it if our statements are not addressed in the Tajo-Segura transfer. Unity is very present in agriculture, which is going through a crucial moment due to the new rules of the Tajo-Segura transfer, which is being discussed for the future.»
The mayor recalled that Lorca is not only agriculture and animals. «Commerce, hospitality, tourism… perceive an importance with the dynamism that the city experiences at this time. This continuous calendar of festivals, congresses, fairs, and all kinds of massive events led to» eliminating «more than 300 people, reaching historic lows. Data, because in the unemployment evolution of 2009, there were no records.»
The city’s reactivation, he said, «is a palpable reality in the figures, which translates into a significant decrease in the number of unemployed, coinciding with the scheduled mass. Like the entities and associations, to facilitate the realization of the practices of the participants.»
Lorca insisted: «It is once again a host and it is of a Congress that will probably be facing the workers’ commissions in the Murcia region. I admit that my relationships with the unions have always been excellent, regardless of ideologies.»
Participants can get to know the city with a specially designed tour for them. «Much of our history is related to the Old City that you will get to know. A historical site in the process of complete reconstruction of a hundred plots that will allow us to return those houses to 400 families and recover commerce and hospitality in a busy day.»