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- "We are not willing to continue being part of this nonsense, this circus, and this scam to Cartagena and media professionals who cover these research committees," said the spokesman of Cs Cartagena, Manuel Padín
- The orange spokesman denounces that he has been "fighting for eight long months for the Government of Cartagena to authorize a new secretary for the Commission, or to provide the current one with the personal and auxiliary resources that he required due to his excessive workload in the Town hall"
The spokesman of the Municipal Group of Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, today announced at a press conference his firm decision to resign as chairman of the Research Committee that studies the economic management carried out by those responsible for this musical event between 2012 and 2016. This municipal oversight body was constituted on September 30, 2016 at the request of the PP and MC political formations.
The orange spokesman made this announcement in a press conference in the hall of the Palace Hall accompanied by the councilors of Cs Cartagena, Ana Rama and Alfredo Nieto.
The orange spokesman has also announced that due to "the blockade and the unproductive paralysis" suffered by each and every one of the municipal research commissions that are underway, Citizens will abandon all of them if within two weeks a meeting of extraordinary spokespersons in which the immediate future of each one is clarified, "those that have to close in false, that do it, and those that have to reactivate that are reactivated, but we are not willing to continue forming part of this nonsense, this circus, and this scam to Cartagena and media professionals who cover these commissions, "said Manuel Padin.
As for the Sea of ​​Music, the spokesman of Cs has admitted that he resigns from the presidency, "with sadness and helplessness, after eight months trying to reactivate one of the few commissions that did work, and I warned on June 8 that it would effective this resignation if the City Council did not react, so that I can not be accused precisely of disloyalty.
Manuel Padín explained that this commission was constituted in September 2016 as a result of the cross-accusations made in the Plenary PP and MC on account of the economic management of the festival.
According to Padín, "from my appointment as president of the Commission and until March 2018, the meetings were happening normally, agreeing with their members the greater or lesser delay between them depending on the volume of documentation that was requested and contributing to be able to carry out the research work ".
However, Padin explains, in mid-March, the official who was the secretary of the Commission was transferred to the City of Murcia, so we requested the appointment of a new secretary.
The appointment became effective and all the information and documentation was transferred to him.
The first phase of the Commission, that of documentation and analysis, ended in March, and with the conclusions drawn in common, the first appearances were proposed to request their attendance at a meeting scheduled for April 20 ... "but it had to be suspended by the impossibility of attendance of several vowels due to agenda problems ".
At the beginning of May, the person who exercised the secretarial duties requested that she be released from the position due to the excessive workload she had to endure, "this position is an essential element since without it you can not call an act that it requires all the legal guarantees, nor to give faith through the act of all the treated subjects ", has clarified the mayor of Citizens.
This situation was brought to the attention of the members of the Committee and of the General Secretariat of the Plenary on two occasions in a row (May 9 and 11) and, in turn, the appointment of another person who exercised these functions was requested.
"After many official, unofficial requests and even a direct interpellation in plenary, after eight long months, the only response we received was silence," laments Manuel Padin who has reported that "only after publicly denouncing our intention to leave the presidency , and eight months after requesting a new secretary for the first time, last week, on October 10, we received a letter in which we are basically told that it has been decided to continue the same secretary without solving the problem of their workload, and without endowing them with the human and auxiliary resources required to continue with their work in a dignified manner ".
"Given this, we have no choice but to think that they have laughed at us, and that we are abusing the work of a public worker, so we have no other choice but to renounce the presidency, wish the next president denounce these facts, "said the spokesman who has thanked" the work of the two secretaries who have gone through this commission, and especially the last, for his praiseworthy delivery and goodwill and that has undoubtedly been a victim of decisions that come from the political authorities that govern this City Council, for reasons that escape us, do not seem willing to facilitate the work of this commission of inquiry. "
As for the rest of the commissions, the spokesman for Citizens explained that "what is happening in this City Council with its research commissions is a real nonsense, each one of them has failed in a different way. the media that are interested and inform about them, we are wasting time and losing it to our public workers and the people of Cartagena ".
"A big lie that has not given, more than three years later, nothing of benefit to this municipality and it is already time for someone from the Government of Cartagena to recognize it and be honest with its neighbors and with journalists. we want to continue being accomplices of this circus that only serves to make cheap political propaganda, "Manuel Padín has warned.
Two weeks deadline to abandon all commissions
The orange formation gave the Government of Cartagena a period of two weeks to convene a meeting of extraordinary spokespersons to clarify which commissions should be closed and which should continue, "of the nine that exist, Batel and Casco Antiguo have only been completed, Although the latter remains unresolved, both have not provided a single conclusion that was not already known by the neighbors and the media, the rest are stopped or blocked between 5 and 18 months, "said the spokesman of Cs.
Citizens has opted to promote the study of a specific regulation for the correct development of these commissions that should be collected by the future Organic Regulation of the Plenary (ROP).
"We continue to believe in these oversight bodies, well taken, are spaces to analyze whether there are political responsibilities on dubious municipal management, correct and improve aspects of internal control and functioning, and hopefully even promote a legal action that can restore the damage suffered" .
Cs proposes to regulate the commissions
Cs has already proposed that the ROP regulate the functioning of these commissions and that it specify what matters can be brought to this commission, how many commissions can be convened at the same time, if they are excluded or not that have led to the opening of legal proceedings, the object and municipal competence of the investigation, its deadlines, the maximum duration, the reserved or public nature of the sessions, the possibility or not of public retransmission, the composition of the same, with or without the presence of internal advisers and external, among many other issues ", Manuel Padín has listed that has said that" right now there is nothing that regulates these bodies, and we should ask ourselves about the ability of this Corporation to investigate, what is the limit? to constitute 10, 20, 50 investigation commissions without damaging the daily work we must do for the good of the citizens?
It does not seem reasonable or possible to investigate and accumulate so many issues and hope at the same time that they serve something useful. "
In addition, Citizens denounces that the existence of up to nine investigative commissions has not prevented their investigation objects from being taken to the ordinary plenary, that is, "they have not served to saturate the plenary sessions, which as you know, last between 10 and 12 hours on average. "
"Moreover, I think that some political groups in this City Council have decided to take advantage of democracy to attack democracy, that is, trying to saturate and boycott the daily municipal activity and government action by promoting an unaffordable number of commissions."
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena
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