- The spokesman for Citizens has asked MC councilors "do not forget that they have been governing for 2 years, more than enough time to start and finish a Commission of Investigation to Hidrogea, enough time to have responded to the appeals against the extension of 2004, and enough time to supervise the concessionaire in the Monitoring and Control Table ... But what did they do? Nothing, they were not even able to lower the price of water and allowed the Hidrogea company to continue generating funds with destiny to nowhere "
On the occasion of the communiqué that the Citizen Movement Group has launched today in which it accuses Citizens of deliberately delaying the investigations in the Commission of Investigation on the Contract of Concession of the Services of Supply of Potable Water and Sanitation, the spokesman of Citizens in Cartagena , Manuel Padín, has responded that "once again, and we have lost the account, MC lacks the truth to attack our Group without foundation".
Manuel Padín explained, as president of this Commission, that on March 12 at 10:00 in the morning the first session of this commission took place and served to collect the enormous requests for documentation from the different municipal groups, regarding the contract, and the service provided by the company Hidrogea. "The president of the Commission has clarified that in that constitution session it was agreed" by all "that due to the large volume of information required, the next session would be convened when all the documentation was available and we gave ourselves a term of just over a month. "
"As of that moment the intention is that the sessions are celebrated with a fortnightly regularity", Manuel Padín has explained that he has informed that the relay in the secretariat has slowed down a little this question, "but as we agreed in the middle of March , as soon as all the requested documents are in, we will call a new session ".
For Manuel Padín, "the issue of alliances begins to tire, that if we are the crutch of the PP, that if we were a tripartite with PSOE and MC, now we are the crutch of the PSOE ... I guess for those who represent with pride the political populism , do not know how to describe a liberal party, progressive, center, coherent, constructive and with the truth ahead as ours "
On the "chicanery" that the spokeswoman of MC points out to prevent the debate of this Commission in the Plenary, Manuel Padín has indicated that "apparently Ms. García does not remember it, but the then intervening and now Secretary of the Plenary told her in two occasions, in the Finance Committee and during the ordinary plenary session, that the only reason why the one that could not be discussed was that it had been wrongly requested, "it seems to us in very bad taste that MC, who fills his mouth defending the work of the officials, criticize today the legal criterion of the secretary of the Plenary and classify it as "chicanery".
The spokesman of Cs that has asked to the councilmen of MC that "they do not forget that they have been governing during 2 years, time more than enough to begin and finish a Commission of Investigation to Hidrogea, sufficient time to have given answer to the resources against the extension of the year 2004, and enough time to supervise the concessionaire in the Monitoring and Control Table ... but they decided not to do anything, they were not even able to lower the price of water and allowed the Hidrogea company to continue generating funds to this company destined to nowhere. "
"If there is a game that plays in favor of the water concessionaire, it is certainly MC, if it were for them, the price of water would remain as unjustly high as before", assured Manuel Padín.
On the Commission of the Sea of ​​Music, the spokesman for Citizens considered "extraordinary that they can complain about a model commission, which has already held several sessions and is moving at a good pace, if the last had to be suspended was to grant the necessary time of adaptation to the new secretary of the Plenary, and once established, a meeting was called and suspended due on the one hand to the convocation of a Government Board that same day and on the other to some members of the Commission had not prepared their questions not remembering that he had mentioned three parties, that MC knows it perfectly, but of course, it is better to attack Citizens and continue campaigning, because some parties only know how to do that, campaign ".
As for the agreement reached with the local government for the budgets of 2018, the orange spokesman says that "of course we know we do not add, but as we did with them and PSOE when they governed, we are very clear that we can and must reach agreements to improve the accounts. "
"If MC or PP would follow our example, projects paralyzed in neighborhoods and councils, such as the pool of La Aljorra, or the soccer field of Barrio Peral, among many others, would be starting, but no, it seems that the MC strategy it goes through that of "wearing down the government" even if it means freezing and blocking the financing of the works expected by the neighbors, that is, putting the political tacticism of a lifetime, above the interests of the citizens, often cartagenerism is spent MC. "
"While José López and company governed they invested almost nothing and less in neighborhoods and councils, they did not fulfill their fiscal promises, the little they did was a fudge (like the roundabout of the Submarine, the cycle path of Santa Ana, the cheniles of the CATAD), and incapable of managing the City Council, they provoked their expulsion to flee from their responsibility and do the only thing they know how to do in that party, rant in the opposition and generate hatred with their puerile populism ", concluded Manuel Padín.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena