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In just two and a half months, the Municipal Government wants to make the Participatory Budgets ready by 2019, when there are still no works to be carried out for the year 2017. Inoperance, botched, deceit to a citizenship that will end up not believing in participation.
A Podemos has made it clear in the last Commission to Monitor Participatory Budgeting, that the PSOE does not have any political will to give participation to the citizens, as has also been demonstrated in the legislature, that this process, participatory, it has only had the name because everything else has been a theater, a fiction of participation, but nothing more.
In the proposal of 2019 proposed to the groups by the Councilor for Citizen Participation, a calendar is presented that begins on October 2 and ends on December 19, that is, only two and a half months of process to include the information phases, dissemination and debate, collection of prioritized proposals, evaluation of the proposals, voting, and publication of the results.
For the training purple this proposal reveals that the PSOE does not believe in participatory budgets, because the calendar is basic to make a credible project, well organized and truly participatory.
"Put the whole process in two and a half months as proposed by the Government is more of the same, return one more year to the fudge of the previous ones because in that period of time it is impossible to give publicity, information, training and participation that are the essential elements for a moderately presentable project to come out, "says Pilar Marcos, spokesperson for CTSSP, and General Secretary of Podemos Cartagena.
For the purple formation, the consequences of being permanently installed in the fudge are terrible, because a process as important as the participatory budgets, is serving so that the citizens of Cartagena instead of participating feel frustration and disappointment: the opposite of what it should generate.
If to the ill-fated experiences of the last two years we add that in the exercises of 2015 and 2016 there were no participatory budgets, what is obvious is that because of the socialist government our municipality is late and badly to them, because already in 2011 the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces had prepared a guide for the implementation of these processes.
CTSSP - We can make a very negative assessment of previous experiences: In the budgets of 2017 all kinds of maneuvers were observed to curtail democracy and leave the votes of citizens without any value, starting with the use of officials as censors to develop the projects that suited the Government without taking into account what the citizens had voted for.
And those of 2018 have not been executed, although we are practically in the last quarter of the year, which guarantees that they will not be developed within the year.
However, and despite the Government's manifest incapacity and will, Podemos firmly believes in citizen participation, and does not renounce to continue trying to implant in the municipality Participatory Budgets that suppose a real participation, through "deliberative democracy", and the solidarity between neighbors, so it will continue to propose to the Municipal Government to resume the lines to follow in the guide that prepared the FEMP, and that are the following:
The process has to be in the hands of the participating actors, the City Council being present only to help, facilitate means, advise on compliance with the bases and legality, etc.
Otherwise, as in previous editions, the process will be manipulated.
The project development calendar, if you want to do well, must necessarily cover a minimum of 8 months of the year prior to the one in which it will be implemented.
The proposal of the two and a half months is not a serious proposal, it is only to cover a file and to be bad before the citizenship, because the democratic processes require of rhythms and times.
The rules by which the process is going to be developed must be clear from the beginning for all the actors, and it must be regulated by the so-called "self-regulation".
Development standards must be developed by the participating actors and they must design a monitoring system.
The participation process must be universal, that is, one man / one woman a vote, and inclusive, so it can not leave out any sector of the citizenship as women, young people, immigrants, etc.
The process necessarily has to be deliberative which means that the participating actors have to deliberate, set priorities, choose, etc.
Making a vote to then liquidate most of the projects that citizens have chosen under the heading that "they are not technically viable" is absolutely intolerable.
If the previous work has been done properly, everything the citizens vote must be technically and economically viable.
The process must necessarily be developed through assemblies and they will elect delegates who must have an imperative mandate, that is, they will be able to decide on behalf of those who have elected them.
The delegates will in turn choose the driving group that will direct the process between assemblies.
It is obvious that it is necessary to design and develop an information and training process aimed at all citizens, as well as participating municipal officials, as fundamental elements to ensure the smooth running of the project.
Necessarily, it should contemplate the technical and administrative phases, so that the participation of municipal officials in development is very important, but not to decide what is done and what is not done.
That has to be clear before the vote
Citizen participation must be guaranteed in all phases of the process, from A to Z. The first would begin with the realization of self-regulation (bases) and the last with the monitoring, analysis and evaluation of the total execution of the project.
The economic amount that is made available to the project of participatory budgets must be delimited from the first moment, it must be important and in progress so that it is a mobilizer of the citizenship, that is to say, that the quantities must be increasing year after year.
All citizens, wherever they live, must have equal opportunities in access to the amounts that are made available to the project and that goal must be guaranteed by the self-regulation2E
For CTSSP-Podemos, participatory budgets are a unique opportunity to build a better municipality, openly and with the active participation of neighbors.
They are not coffee for everyone, but a project for the development of democracy, informative, formative, participatory, and supportive, to give citizens a voice on what they want to do with part of the money from their taxes, and for the promotion of conscience. civic, but under no circumstances can be used to make political patronage.
For these reasons, from the training purple will propose to the Municipal Government to implement the proposal in question, so that participatory budgets do not become competition between peoples and councils, which are distributed crumbs for a work that is never done.
Source: CTSSP
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