The opposition party in Salobreña, the Partido Popular, complains that the municipal library (next to the Casa de La Cultura) is no longer open in the afternoons.

They point out that locals and visitors alike enter the building with the intention of using this municipal facility only to find a notice saying that the Library will now not be open during the afternoons.

Now, the Spokesperson for the Partido Popular finds this situation “intolerable” because it is precisely in the evenings that schoolchildren have free time in which to use it.

The Spokesperson also considered it incongruent that whilst the Town Hall announced on the 10th of this month, that they would be celebrating the International Day of the Book, within which there would be a competition that required participants to hand in their work at the library from Monday to Friday between 09.00h and 14.00h.

Editorial comment: whilst Salobreña has a history of having its main tourist office closed for months on end, which was incomprehensible, the PP are overreacting at tad whilst conveniently forgetting that Internet exists and that schoolchildren use that rather than actually stomping off down to the library to consult a book. Yes, schoolchildren will have trouble handing in their project work (on this occasion) because they are at school when the library is open.

(News/Noticias: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)