• “I am going to demand that jobs and industrial activity be maintained in Cartagena,” he said after meeting with the company committee

• “The goal is to explore alternatives and try to redirect the situation”

• Francisco Lucas regretted that President López Mire has resigned himself to the loss of jobs and denounced that he has not contacted either the Ministry of Industry or the Special Commissioner for Reindustrialization, created to manage this type of crisis

• “I have moved the workers who have me by their side and I am going to fight for them”

13 January 2026. The government delegate announced today that the Government of Spain will convene a dialogue table with SABIC to try to avoid redundancies at the Cartagena plant.

“I am in permanent contact with the Minister of Industry and with the Special Commissioner for Reindustrialization and I can announce that the Government of Spain will contact SABIC and the company that wants to buy the plant to constitute that dialogue table and try to redirect the situation,” said Francisco Lucas to the media after communicating it to the workers themselves.

Lucas has indicated that it is unusual and unacceptable that neither the president of the Autonomous Community nor any member of the regional government has contacted the Ministry of Industry or this Commissioner, created precisely to manage this type of crisis and that has solved similar situations in other autonomous communities, he added.

“It is unacceptable that López Mire has resigned and is satisfied with the closure of the plant and the layoffs and that he does so without fighting,” he said.

According to the government delegate, the objective of this table is to explore all the alternatives, to avoid redundancies at all costs and, therefore, to maintain the plant in Cartagena. “In case that is not possible, one of the objectives of the Government of Spain is to ensure the reindustrialization of the area. I am aware that the situation is difficult, but I will give the battle and use all the resources at our disposal to avoid redundancies. I’m not going to be satisfied,” he said.

Francisco Lucas has received the company committee at the headquarters of the Government Delegation in Cartagena, where he has transferred his “firm” support to all workers, and has indicated that he will demand that jobs and activity be maintained in the Cartagena complex. “I want to make it clear to all of them that they have me by their side,” he said.