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- Citizens will propose in the next session a regulation of the permanent and non-permanent commissions, with special attention to the research, the inclusion of a new chapter to establish a special procedure for the debate of the budgets with the objective that the accounts are In force at the beginning of the year, and will put on the table the possibility of limiting the number of motions and questions that each group can register, provided they are not urgent

After the session of constitution of the Technical Commission of the Integral Reform of the Organic Regulation of the Plenary (ROP), the spokesman of Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, has indicated that "Cs was the first party to publicly request the need to update a ROP , the current, completely outdated that has promoted and promotes the collapse of the plenary sessions, the ineffectiveness of the committees of investigation and the delay of the approval of the municipal budgets ".

"We started to work on this issue in November 2016 after presenting the proposal to modify the ROP to include the Debate on the State of the Municipality, so we have very advanced contributions that we will present in the next session, on September 7 "the orange spokesman has informed that he regrets" the slowness of the Government to get this call, if it had done so when its constitution was approved in the Plenary, maybe we would be working much better ".

For Manuel Padín "we must not underestimate the damage that an outdated ROP can cause to the political life of a municipality, to begin with, this outdated regulation has been largely to blame for the fact that the plenary sessions are so unproductive, that the commissions of research are unregulated and do not work or that the process to get the bills forward is bogged down and delayed, which blocks the granting of grants and the execution of investment projects. "

To overcome these problems, Citizens will propose a regulation of permanent and non-permanent commissions, with special attention to research, the inclusion of a new chapter to establish a special procedure to optimize the debate of the budgets with the aim that in January enter into force, and put on the table the possibility of limiting the number of motions and questions that each group can register and that are not urgent (which should have no limit).

In addition, Cs Cartagena will suggest to improve the system by which the files of the matters included in the agenda of the collegiate bodies are consulted in order to gain agility and transparency.

Some problems of the current ROP

The current ROP dates from 2006 and has, according to Cs, serious errors of correspondence between articles, shows a strong lack of specificity and a disorganization in its general structure.

The spokesman for Citizens recalled that the current document states that the deadline to register motions ends only twenty hours before the same celebration of the Plenary, and allows the Board of Spokesmen to take place only forty-five minutes before the plenary session, " It is literally impossible to rigorously study each proposal with these deadlines, and the Board of Spokespersons, instead of being a place for political debate and the inclusion of amendments to the totality, of addition or modification, is just a paripé without content to agree one or two institutional statements. "

Another problem that Cs has detected is that there is nothing to regulate the figure of deputy mayor, with the consequent gap in terms of their retributions, and indeterminations for the assignment of spokespersons of a group when at the same time they are councilors of the Government.

Marathon and unproductive sessions

There is no general regulation that regulates the number of motions and questions that each political party can present at a municipal Plenary, but it is the internal regulations of each municipality that establish it.

This causes a striking disparity of situations between one municipality and another to be able to raise proposals, very limited in some cases and, in others, on the contrary, without a maximum limit.

There are municipalities where the situation is very strict as in San Sebastian or Cordoba, where municipal groups can only submit one motion and four questions per session, while in others, such as Cartagena, there is no maximum number and about 150 or more are debated. 200 initiatives

Citizens will propose that it be valued to find an intermediate point between a strict limitation and the current collapse, although it understands that this issue is delicate and that it should be agreed with all the political groups in the Commission to reform the ROP, "we want to gain efficiency and operability but we do not want any group to think that we want to cut their initiatives, so it must be a decision of everyone and in any case should not affect the so-called motions or urgent questions. "

"It is not normal that in the municipal plenary of Cartagena more proposals are debated than in the plenary sessions of other cities such as Madrid or Barcelona," says Padín.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena