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The Municipal Corporation of the City of Totana has joined, seamlessly, to stop the rise of gambling halls and gambling behaviors that are proliferating in some sectors of the population in recent times in the municipality;
and to urge the regional government to improve the recent amendment of the Law on Gambling and Gaming.
The Plenary already approved last September a motion by the Municipal Group Win Totana-IU, unanimously, to urge the regional government that the amended regional regulations include the development of a regional strategy for the prevention of gambling.
In this sense, the corporates agreed to request the elimination of commercial advertising of gambling halls and sports betting during children's hours, including sports events broadcast on radio and television and preparation of a territorial regulation of gaming and betting rooms.
Management of the municipal government
In fact, the Department of Social Welfare of the City of Totana, through the Municipal Drug Addiction Program, has recently announced that it will promote during this school year actions and measures of awareness and prevention against juvenile gambling in this municipality.
Precisely, the councilman of the branch, Javier Baños, announced a few weeks ago some of the actions that the Consistory plans to develop before the proliferation of betting houses in Totana and online game in recent times, addressing it as another addiction.
In the last year and a half in the municipality there have been an evident increase in the gambling halls and betting houses to eight, some of them also located in the vicinity of educational centers, which are causing problems in some family environments and social contexts, as informed the mayor.
The totanero City Council will also carry out an information campaign on all the buildings and municipal facilities;
and this addiction will also be included among the different problems that each course is addressed in primary and secondary education centers in collaboration with professors, who will also provide information on the proper use of new technologies.
Recent regional normative modification
The Autonomous Community has recently agreed to a reform of the regulation that will mean in practice the freezing of the current park of premises, amounting to 330, according to data from the Ministry of Finance.
In fact, the autonomous Executive has suspended the granting of more authorizations in order to avoid in the coming days a possible flood of requests by companies in order to benefit from the previous regulation, much more permissive with this activity.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana
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