Dissolve the Olympic Consortium 2022 Zaragoza-Pyrenees

The Governing Council of Zaragoza-Pyrenees Olympic Consortium 2022 resolved to dissolve following the resignation of the capital of Aragon to lead the project and a half years after its establishment.

The City Council of Zaragoza based its decision on the lack of sufficient political support to take forward the bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics, as the waiver of the organization of this event was one of the CHA and UI requirements for the support of Juan Alberto Belloch inauguration as mayor.

However, the consistory Aragon believes that it is a project that has a "huge interest" and would wait for better economic times to pull it off, he told the media the city councilman of Culture and Environment, Jerónimo Blasco.

The Minister of the Presidency of the Government of Aragón, Roberto Bermudez de Castro, regretted that paralyze the aspirations of a territory as the Pyrenees, that "living through tourism", with decisions made "by people who have no establishment" in this field.

Therefore, announced that the Government of Aragón will invest in ski resorts, in its modernization, in the valleys of Aragon and Benasque and union Bielsa stations with those of France to the Pyrenees is a "territory dynamic "and" have more strength. "

The municipal group spokesman PP, Eloy Suarez, stressed that the justification for lack of funds reveals that the mayor has "teased" to the public because "he used it as an electoral platform without intending to carry on."

Meanwhile, IU spokesman, José Manuel Alonso, welcomed the agreement was a project estimate "unsustainable" economic and environmentally and does not respond or the interests or priorities of the city.