The Mayor of Orihuela, Emilio Bascuñana and the Councillor for Heritage and Finance, Rafael Almagro, have agreed the sale of the Orihuela Palace of Justice building, together with the Minister of Justice, Gabriela Bravo and the Minister of Finance.
The agreement reached between the City Council and the Generalitat Valenciana has concluded with the deed of sale by both parties, which includes the sale of said building for a total of 4,766,532 euros. From this amount, the amount of 150,000 euros that the Department of Justice has paid during the last two years has been deducted, after the agreement reached in November 2017.
The Generalitat Valenciana will make the payment for the sale of the Palace of Justice in four annual payments in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, explained the mayor of Orihuela.
Bascuñana has highlighted “the good disposition and institutional harmony on the part of the two ministries to resolve this issue that has been entrenched for so many years, which we already managed to resolve in 2017 and which we now culminate with this sale.”
The mayor of Orihuela recalled the importance of “maintaining this collaboration with the Generalitat to solve other needs that we have in Orihuela and in the Vega Baja that have dragged on since the DANA.”
For her part, the Minister of Justice, Gabriela Bravo, said: “From now on we are going to work with the City Council to obtain the transfer of the land necessary for the expansion of the Orihuela judicial headquarters and to provide it with the necessary spaces and services.”