Murcia denounces the cutting of the Tajo-Segura transfer before the Supreme Court: "We are not going to tolerate it"

• Council of Ministers The Government approves the cut in the transfer of the Tagus to the Segura between protests by farmers and the communities of Levante

• Irrigators and politicians protest in Madrid against the cuts in the Tajo-Segura transfer: "It is a death sentence"

"I have ordered the legal services to file a contentious-administrative appeal before the Supreme Court against the decision of the Government of Spain to approve water planning that violates the interests of the

."

This is how the Murcian president, Fernando López Miras, announced his response to the approval by the Council of Ministers of

, which drastically cuts the water transferred to

,

and

.

In a press conference held today in the Murcian capital, López Miras has thus consummated his frontal clash against the Government, before "the 50% cut" of the transfer, as

announced in September.

"They are not going to silence me. I am not going to tolerate Pedro Sánchez sending more than 25,000 workers to unemployment in the Levante alone in the first year of the cut. I am not going to allow Pedro Sánchez to impoverish the Region of Murcia with his decisions ", has emphasized the baron of the PP.

The Tagus Plan establishes, for the first time, an ecological flow at the headwaters of the river.

Specifically, in Aranjuez (Madrid).

This implies a reduction in transferred water that the Government, in the worst scenario, figures

.

This, in the eyes of López Miras, "leads Levante to ruin."

The irrigators place the cut at a fixed

.

These stress that the transfer employs 300,000 people and irrigates 70% of the fruit and vegetables that Spain exports, as well as 55 million trees that prevent the "desertification" of the area.

"Ideological sectarianism"

López Miras, in a harsh intervention against Vice President Teresa Ribera, whom he has accused of knowingly "lying" and for "ideological sectarianism", has assured that the Government "leaves Levante without half of its water resources".

And that is why he has demanded a "face to face" meeting with Sánchez, in which to discuss what he considers "the greatest attack" on Murcia in "decades", and which is also not based, in his opinion, "on criteria technicians".

In his argument, the Murcian president has appealed for the equality of all Spaniards, wherever they live: "I want a farmer from La Mancha to have the same opportunities and rights as a farmer from the Region of Murcia, and I want that when a Murcian opens the tap in your home have the same water and at the same price as when a citizen of Castilla La Mancha opens the tap. We want no less for anyone".

"Today, politicians who have not set foot on this land, nor its fields, nor its orchards, nor our streets nor our houses have sentenced the Tajo-Segura Transfer to death," he proclaimed.

"It is an outrage without base or foundation that hits our social, economic and environmental development. If we are what we are today it is thanks to the Tajo-Segura Transfer," he added.

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