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The municipal group of IU-Greens Cieza presented an initiative for discussion at the next plenary session on April 7 in which the creation of a direct tax, at regional level, that grave to large commercial order is requested allocate the money raised to the promotion and direct assistance to small and medium business.

According Penalva, this political spokesman, "the situation of the small and medium business in Cieza, as in the other municipalities of the Autonomous Community of Murcia, is very bad, so it is a priority to design and implement actions effective and concrete that can ensure the survival of a sector that holds thousands of jobs in our region. "

The overall drop in consumption has led to the economic crisis that began in 2007 "has influenced a unique insight into this sector," but according to the eco-socialist spokesman, "the lace has come to put it the law of freedom of trading hours approved by the Popular Party in Murcia. "

To Penalva, "the application of this law has affected quite differently in small shops and large stores, clearly benefiting the latter, well, small businesses have lost a number of customers who now do their shopping on a Sunday , which manifests itself in so very clear in Cieza, given the custom of many to travel to Murcia ciezanos to buy. "

In IU-Greens are of the view that "in times of crisis, governments should adopt protectionist measures of small and medium business, given the capacity to generate employment in the sector and the difficulties encountered to compete strongly liberalized environment".

Penalva recalls that, according to the European Central Bank in 2013 "loans to SMEs in Spain had an average interest rate of 5.36 per 100, compared with 2.62 per 100 loans to large enterprises; difference between the two types, 2.74 points, is far superior to the average difference within the European Union, which is 1.65, this simple fact highlights the great difficulties to access the funding they find our stores local and small businesses, and unfavorable conditions in which they are forced to compete. "

On the other hand, you can not ignore that "supermarkets for their commercial format, location and activity, produce negative impacts on community life as sensitive as regional planning areas, the environment, public infrastructure and tissue and activity of urban centers, without assuming the relevant economic, social and environmental costs. "

In conclusion, "are necessary policies to restore the balance between the different retail formats and the general interest of the sector, and in this sense it is they propose, from various forums, creating taxes on large surfaces, we understand that in Murcia-crisis would be a useful tool, as its revenue would fund programs to improve the environment, creating green spaces for public use and support to small and medium business and building, maintaining and creating jobs in the commercial sector " .

Source: IU-verdes Cieza