Montero insists that “he is not going to allow any privatization of public space”

Madrid, March 13 (EFECOM).- The first vice president and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, insisted this Wednesday that “the Government is not going to allow any privatization of public space” after the mayor of Seville, José Luis Sanz (PP), has proposed charging an entrance fee for access to the Plaza de España.

The Government, which is the owner of most of the architectural complex, “is not going to charge for visiting these places,” Montero stressed during the Government control session in the Congress of Deputies.

The Plaza de España in Seville, he added, is one of the most important monuments of the 1929 Universal Exposition and a “claim” of the city, so the obligation of the administrations is to preserve, conserve and repair assets of interest. cultural.

The vice president also recalled that the Seville City Council has received 56% more resources than during the time of the former president of the government Mariano Rajoy, so the eventual collection of an entrance fee “is not an economic issue” but “of interest.” for the privatization that the PP always illuminates”.

The socialist deputy Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis, who asked the question, considered it “nonsense” that the mayor of Seville asked for 5 million euros annually for the maintenance of the square when the PP voted against the path of budgetary stability. which meant a loss of spending capacity of 40 million for the city. EFECOM

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