Councilman Celebrations of the City of Cehegín Francisco in April, has announced that the special lighting on Christmas is fast relative to other years and will take place next Saturday, December 6, in order to stimulate consumption in the shops locality in the days before Christmas.
In this way, "responds to the requests of the Cehegín Merchants Association, who requested this action to help boost sales in local shops at a time when the economy particularly sensitive to these small entrepreneurs and freelancers," said April.
The mayor reported that, despite the advancement of power, spending the Christmas lighting will be cut because it will reduce the number of hours of lighting, which will turn off at 12 at night, unlike other years it was turned off at 4 am, to achieve savings of 16 percent over last year.
In addition, this year also reduced the number of arcs that decorate some streets, which has made the bill to rent these ornaments will be cut by 10 percent.
April stated that the municipality has launched a series of economy and austerity measures that mainly affect celebrations related items, advertising and protocol expenses, and that the reduction in spending on Christmas lights is part of these measures "crisis" .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín