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The problem of emptied Spain is not that its demands are not heard. It does not act. The different political forces dust these days the campaign promises for the rural environment. But the fact that public authorities continue to turn a deaf ear to the demands of the interior contrasts with the pressure capacity of several parties, nationalist or regionalist, whose hinge paper reports to its autonomies a juicy portion of the state investment cake .

This axiom, shaped by bipartisanship, has led Teruel There to make the leap to politics. The veteran platform, which accumulates two decades of intense social activism, has decided to run for the general elections on November 10. It aims to gather the necessary guarantees -1% of the electoral census - to formalize its candidacy, both to Congress and to the Senate, as a grouping of voters.

Teruel distributes three seats in the Lower House. Traditionally, it has been a fiefdom dominated by the two great parties. In the elections of the past 28-A the scrutiny granted the PSOE a seat and 32.7% of the votes and another representative for the PP, which brought together 23.7%.

However, Citizens scratched a deputy after touching 20% ​​of the votes. To obtain representation in the Carrera de San Jerónimo, Teruel Existe needs 15,000 votes and that the winning party does not double in support. So far, he has achieved the accession of the Aragonese Chunta, who has declined to present a candidacy in Teruel "out of respect" to the platform.

"We are tired of being denied"

"They leave us no other way. We are tired of the politicians of one sign and another not rejecting our proposals." Manuel Gimeno , spokesman for Teruel Existe, assures EL MUNDO that the decision to launch into the political arena seeks to "visualize the reality of our land, demand compliance with the commitments made by the Government and be a sounding board of Spain emptied. "

This last point acquires a national dimension, taking into account the tiredness of dozens of provinces that feel battered in the provision of services and public works. Hence, Teruel There, according to Gimeno, aspires to "copy the Cantabria Regionalist Party or the PNV, although renouncing any challenge to the State."

In fact, the trigger for the 10-N elections was the recent unlocking of the link between Santander and Bilbao of the Cantabrian-Mediterranean Corridor. Precisely, the delay in the execution of the Zaragoza-Valencia section of this infrastructure is condemning Teruel practically to rail isolation. "Pedro Sánchez approved it because Miguel Ángel Revilla [president of Cantabria] put it as a condition to support his investiture," says Gimeno.

Since its establishment in 1999, Teruel Existe has convened fifty demonstrations and about 100 assemblies, meetings and forums focused on depopulation. Those responsible met with four presidents of the Government from José María Aznar onwards. Nothing worked.

A province without direct connection with Madrid

Teruel has lost almost 9% of its population during the last decade -the provincial register is 134,042 inhabitants-, it has an obsolete rail connection and remains the only provincial capital of Spain without direct connection to Madrid by highway.

The Turolense platform has been denouncing for decades that the weight of the seats of Basque nationalism and Catalan independence movement has led the governments of the PSOE and the PP "to pay attention only to the blackmailed children", as Gimeno qualifies those acronyms that make profitable their parliamentary representation obtaining penguins in the negotiation of the State Budget. The people in charge of Teruel Exist affirm that they concur the 10-N "without more ideology than the defense of the province".

The cry of Teruel Exists served to launch the first great SOS of Spain affected by the rural exodus, whose metastasis already reaches 53% of the national territory. The province of Teruel , together with those of Soria and Cuenca , integrates the zero zone of depopulation. Its population density is less than 12 inhabitants per square kilometer, the threshold set by the EU to recognize sparsely populated areas.

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