SUEÑA TORREVIEJA PLANS FOR A MAJOR EXHIBITION VENUE

Having previously teased in an interview with The Leader that the project would be published soon, SueÒa Torrevieja released details of their plans to build a major exhibition and concert hall for the town, which will be able to hold concerts, congresses, fairs, and events, with a capacity for 15,000 people.

Pablo Samper, candidate for mayor of SueÒa Torrevieja, said that "there are many demands and suggestions from residents of Torrevieja that haave suggested the possibility that Torrevieja could host international level events, while also respecting the harmony with the residents of the areas adjacent to the concert areas".

In addition, Samper points out, "that in recent activities, many shows by local artists and events such as carnival galas were short of tickets to meet the great demand of people wishing to attend, so with this venue there would be no problem to host them."

This enclosure located in the plots annexed to the Official School of Languages, would also give the possibility of having a specific place to develop fairs, congresses and exhibitions of all kinds at an international level, something that does not exist in Torrevieja which currently has to use venues that are not suitable, such as the auditorium hall or the Sports Palace, which also causes cancellation of training and competitions for many days.

"This would be the case, for example, of the ComarCON, which takes place in the Palacio de Deportes and that in this way would mean achieving a growth of visitors, as well as having all the facilities for its celebration".

Samper concludes by stating that "the venue would also be prepared for the use of international sporting events, in the style of the Wizink Center in Madrid, and would put Torrevieja in the international spotlight as a sports reference venue".

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The PSOE candidate for mayor of Torrevieja, B·rbara Soler, has blamed the current mayor, Eduardo DolÛn, PP, for the delay in the rehabilitation works of the IES Libertas school, which, rather than being simply a political campaign message, is something the socialist candidate can speak of with personal experience, as she had been a teacher in the school before embarking on her political career. Soler has stated that until now, she had decided to keep her teaching work separate, but since the condition of the centre is a sensitive issue, that affects teachers, parents and students, it cannot be tolerated for Eduardo DolÛn to say without blushing, that "since the Conselleria has not taken charge of fixing the educational centres, the City Council is going to do it through the Edificant Planî. Currently, there are delays with the refurbishment of several centres in the locality depending on the Edificant Plan of the Generalitat Valenciana. This plan consists of the autonomous government providing certain budgets to the municipalities, to reform and rehabilitate their educational centres.

For the Conselleria to approve the requests, it is necessary to attach a series of supporting documents showing the necessity of the works and a value report that is elaborated based on public economic modules to be applied in each specific case. These values change depending on several factors, such as the variation of the prices of the materials or working hours. When new modules are approved, they are published.

The first time that the plenary session approved the delegation of powers was on February 12, 2022, but the Conselleria warned

Torrevieja council that the values that had to be taken into account in the value report had changed months ago. That is, there had been a change in the economic modules but nobody in the town hall had noticed it.

The issue was not brought back to the committees until October 21, when the opposition, again, pointed out that there had been another modification in the evaluation criteria, and that the report being presented was therefore already obsolete. This caused it to be withdrawn from the agenda of that ple-