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- "One of the points that Citizens will defend in this debate is that" the approval of budgets in mid-May, definitively in June, is a heavy burden for the execution of all projects, "advances the orange spokesman, Manuel Padín

After the approval yesterday of the municipal budgets and the implementation of the investment plan of the surplus of 2017, the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, said today that "this Municipal Corporation needs to do an examination of conscience, an exercise of deep self-criticism for change the dynamics of recent years with the municipal accounts or the development of the plenary sessions ".

"We can not continue like this - Padín maintains - and therefore we hope that the Debate on the State of the Municipality foreseen in the ROP for the month of July will be a turning point from which a minimum agreement between all the political parties is reached. to re-dignify the Cartagena policy and that it complies with what is expected of it, among other things, efficiency and optimization in the management of public resources ".

The orange training has announced that in the coming days will request a meeting with the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, to set the date of this debate, whose implementation was approved unanimously in the plenary session of November 2016 at the proposal of the orange training .

Last year it could not be celebrated due to the change in the Mayor's Office of Cartagena.

"I understand that the date or dates must also be agreed with the rest of the groups," clarified the Cs spokesperson.

A budget that is late

Manuel Padín has advanced that one of the arguments that will defend in this debate is that "the approval of the budgets in mid-May, definitively in June, is a heavy burden for the execution of all projects, the worst is that this Government seems not to want to learn from the past and still does not take the necessary steps to approach what would be legal and reasonable, that is, to have it approved definitively before the end of the year for its entry into force on January 1; to get it".

Since Citizens believe that this delay is a clear political irresponsibility that we drag from the Barreiro era, "it is not just another document but it depends on the development of public works, the hiring of companies, the creation of jobs or something as important as the grants and subsidies to groups and associations. "

"If we are not able to increase our rate of execution, and for that it is necessary to have the budget at the beginning of the year, it is not worth having a large surplus thanks to the 24.5 million euros that Repsol paid to the City Council for the Tax of Constructions, Installations and Works (ICIO) ", explained Manuel Padín.

For orange training, the approval of the budget yesterday was the "lesser evil", but that does not mean that it is a balanced accounting document, "arriving late, badly and without a majority agreement has its consequences, the irresponsible refusal of the PP to negotiate the budget with the Government and its infantile tantrum of wanting to boycott the accounts approving each and every one of the amendments of the other groups, even if they were unrealizable, unfeasible and incompatible, had an obvious and harmful consequence: the budget needs to go through the operating room to correct a number of contradictions and further delay the execution. "

"Thanks to the PP, yesterday the agreement reached by the City Council and the Bishopric to rehabilitate the Church of Santa Maria de Gracia was put in danger, in short, an irresponsible and immature municipal opposition of a party in permanent shock for losing the Government of Cartagena in 2015 ", explained Manuel Padín.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena