The mayor, Angeles Muñoz, today held a meeting in Madrid with the vice president of Congress, Celia Villalobos, to address the problem of debt inherited by the Municipality of Marbella with social security and taxes.

Celia Villalobos announced her intention to promote legislative initiatives necessary "to achieve economic normalization of the Ayuntamiento." As the councillor has stated, the goal is to "give top priority to an initiative that we have been demanding for four years, which we believe is fair and to be carried out in the shortest time possible."

In this regard, she recalled that during the last legislature, the People's Party parliamentary group presented up to four legislative initiatives in Congress to link the inherited debt payment to the results that the Ayuntamiento may obtain in the different judicial procedures "that were rejected systematically by the Socialist Party. "

Munoz stated that "although we know that the current economic circumstances are worse than four years ago, we are convinced that the will and firmness with which the People's Party has always advocated a fair deal for Marbella will be a reality."

She explained that the Ayuntamiento "is religiously paying Social Security and the Treasury both the instalments as the current debt, but obviously, we are unable to settle in the ten years required by law a debt that dates back to the year 91 where the previous corporation failed to pay fees to both administrations, and that led to the dissolution of the Consistory for economic infeasibility.”

The councillor has indicated that Celia Villalobos, as first deputy for the province of Malaga, "knows first-hand the needs of Marbella and is aware of the battle that we are making on this matter" and has advanced that the vice-president "will be our liaison with the Popular Party spokesman in both the economic area with Social Security and the Treasury to accelerate the instalments as much as possible".