PSOE criticism that 70 municipalities in the region still lack libraries.
(Updates with statements of the Group RD2011 People in the Assembly of Madrid) Madrid, 24 ago .- The Socialist Group of the Assembly of Madrid has criticized today that 70 of the 179 municipalities in the region, four in 10, lack a Fixed public library service, while the Popular Party has said they are only eight and highlighted that 100% of, ffxiv gil, the population has access to reading.
As Vice President and Minister of Culture and Sports of the Comunidad de Madrid, Ignacio Gonzalez, had the fleet of 13 mobile library buses will travel the region during the 2010/11 year, the Socialists denounced the failure of "compromise" reached between the regional government and parliamentary groups to inaugurate a library a year, and plan to build another, tera gold, one more.
He has also expressed its complaint, the PSOE on the agreement which the Community has established small municipalities for the construction of libraries, which considers that "does not match the effort that these people really can do."
For the Socialist Group of the Assembly, is "very unbalanced", according to this agreement, the local government contribution, sto credits, of $ 3,000 "inaugural fund" while "the rest is borne by the municipality."
The PSOE also mean that the Reading Regional Plan adopted in 2006 "is not being properly implemented" and that "not being responsive to the needs of school libraries, because as of today" should be about 200 libraries and are not meeting the deadlines of creation. "
The spokesman of the Grupo Popular Culture in the Madrid Assembly, James Beltran, has responded to these criticisms that "100 percent of the population of Madrid has secured public access and free reading."
Beltran has been clarified that the 179 municipalities in the region, "only eight do not have fixed library service point", which is less than 2% of the population of Madrid, about 9578 inhabitants.
He emphasized that this population if it can benefit the Library Extension Services as group lending and telelibrary Service, designed for the elderly and disabled, as well as the fleet of mobile libraries in the Community.
"In this term the Government of Esperanza Aguirre had proposed the construction of eight libraries in the Community of Madrid, and today, without having completed the term, are now 37 libraries have been built throughout the region, in which 7 are in the municipality of Madrid, "he explained.
As for the agreements between the Community and the municipalities with few inhabitants, the spokesman reminded people who are local authority which is responsible for the construction of public libraries, as the Local Administration Act requires to have a fixed library services municipalities of more than 5,000 inhabitants.