"To this punishment in the forecast is added that between the governments of Arroyo and Castejón only execute 3 of every 20 euros for Cartagena"
This morning, the secretary general and spokesman of MC Cartagena in the City Council, José López, has argued the positioning of the Cartagena training after knowing the regional budget project of 2019 that the Popular Party, with the support of Citizens, has moved to the Regional Assembly for final approval.
He began by valuing that "the first thing that comes to mind when one reads regional budgets is that López Miras' own Executive does not believe them".
In line with this statement, has outlined that "the income forecast is inflated to be able to square the numbers, as they do every year."
The Cartagena leader has revealed one of the inconsistencies of the proposal that will be discussed in the autonomous parliament.
"They say that they are lowering taxes, but nevertheless they increase the forecast of income by 284 million euros."
A circumstance that will be resolved as always, "increasing the public debt, which already exceeds 9,100 million euros, and even then the budget will not be executed."
Continuing with this statement, Lopez has meant that "in this lack of execution will enter political decisions.In addition to the usual punishment in the forecast, we will suffer the execution, because the projects for Cartagena are not executed."
The deception of budget execution on roads, education and heritage
The leader of MC Cartagena has taken as references three specific areas, roads, education and heritage to refer to the execution of the 2018 budget and the new items for 2019.
Roads.
"Only 20% of the slightly more than 1,100,000 euros that were budgeted in 2018 have been executed, leaving the projects on the roads of our neighborhoods and councils without execution (RME-33. RMF-35. RM-1, RMF- 39) ".
"These projects are 'sliding' to 2019, to which only 350,000 euros are added for the roads of Cartagena, we have all seen, after the last rains, what conditions they are in and how ridiculous the amount is."
Education.
"The 21% of 1,600,000 euros budgeted has been executed".
For the next year the investment is limited to 40,000 euros to deamiate the cover of the school of José María Lapuerta.
The rest are projects of the previous year that the regional Executive again slip to 2019 (Hespérides, La Palma, San Isidro, Vicente Ros) and, as always, the school of La Aljorra that does not advance.
Heritage.
"It is necessary to separate the Roman Theater and the rest of the projects, so in 2018 the excavation loan has been paid as every year and the subsidy of 160,000 euros to the activity. what is budgeted ".
In relation to next year, "appear the House of the Child, which is dragged from the previous year and appear a meager 160,000 euros from the Central Cinema, in addition to the 40,000 euros of the Master Plan of the Cathedral, which the Virgen de la Caridad Platform has forced to include ".
Forgotten forgotten
López recalled new breaches of the regional government in matters of heritage.
"There is nothing for the windmills, the Amphitheater or the solar annex to the Muram, but even if the budgeted was executed it would be unfeasible to open the Central Cinema that, three years after its acquisition, will remain closed and without adapting it" .
Mar Menor and ZAL, symbols of regional contempt for Cartagena
After these examples, José López has focused his speech on La Manga and the Mar Menor.
"Both deserve a review because, regarding the Ribera Sur there is no new project and 'slip' the same storm tanks of previous years for Mar de Cristal and Playa Honda, when we have already proven that they are useless."
"With the EDUSI of La Manga we have verified that, for this year, we have budgeted 1,200,000 euros, but we also know that, by the end of 2019, 9 million euros of FEDER funds should be executed and, in the best of cases , will have reached 15% to La Manga ".
To conclude the general view of budgets, the mayor has referred to the ZAL of Los Camachos, this year, "presents 300,000 euros to guarantee the rights of acquisition of plots to SEPES."
The political 'game' of PP and C's
In relation to the ZAL López has begun his political assessment.
"The sum of the budgets approved by PP and C's in 2016, 2017 and 2018 for the ZAL is 1,410,000 euros." Excluding the chest blows given, there has been a pyrrhic expenditure of 50,000 euros. in this legislature, PP and C's have executed 3.5% of the budget ".
Logistics and urban transport has been another topic to deepen.
He has outlined the assigned to Cartagena, a derisory amount of 135,000 euros.
This scandalous data contrasts with what was proposed for the city of Murcia.
"4.5 million euros, that is, 3000% more, it is said soon but it is not so easy, we believe it is essential that the residents of the districts and councils of Cartagena, who suffer serious deficiencies in our urban transport, know that information" .
The PSOE and Castejón get on the bandwagon?
The Cartagena spokesman has continued highlighting that "now, suddenly, appear the deputies of the PSOE with the mayor and talk about brutal abuse to Cartagena in the 2019 budget."
"This means that when they have sat down to do the territorialized numbers they have seen the mistreatment that they have denied so much, that experts of the UPCT estimated at 315 million euros between 2008 and 2015. Now, they confirm with the data in the hand that a cartagenero 'is worth' three times less than a Murcian for PP and C's (1 euros for Cartagena for every 3 to Murcia) ".
"We could say that Castejón has discovered intelligent cartagenerism, and it turns out that he was the one who does MC, the one of data and reality, not the one of political chicanery and pretentious goodness".
The councilman of MC Cartagena has made an aside for the spokeswoman of the regional government, the candidate for mayor, Noelia Arroyo.
"She brings her disability card after being dismissed as Minister of Culture, which now adds a budget that increases the punishment of Cartagena, who is penalized in the forecasts and, as we have explained, in the execution, because in matters such as At the time, they do not introduce new projects, especially taking care of the health of the inhabitants of this region, keeping the Rosell closed or without providing money to decontaminate El Hondón. Many people talk about ethnocide and we have no reason to think that it is not. "
Window dressing to leave Cartagena with the same problems
José López has begun the final part of his speech by saying that "the summary of these assumptions is that they are pure 'window dressing.' They show the lack of seriousness of the PP government and its cronies of C's They are unreal and they know it. they present them to, once again, laugh at 44 municipalities in this Region. "
"As for Cartagena," he said, "besides being harassed by the conformism and lack of capacity of the current government to represent Cartagena, we see how crumbs arrive, perhaps because the PP hopes to cheat C's and make some gimmicky announcement. in the form of a subsidy before the elections or, simply, because they continue to despise Cartagena and its Region, and are aware of its debacle and continue to fight for the vote of the city of Murcia at the expense of Cartagena, as always ".
"We could talk about the budgets of the liquidation of the PP in the Autonomous Community and that end up dragging the Cartagena as if we were miserable," he concluded.
The budgetary execution of Castejón and Arroyo
By way of summary, each note that the current governments of Castejón (PSOE) and Arroyo (PP) at this time of year have executed 3 out of 20 euros budgeted for Cartagena.
That is, 15%.
The only full year of MC in the local government (2016) had an execution over 100%.
Therefore, it is incontestable to deduce that the management of Cartagena boosted revenues and allowed the budgeted and extrabudgetary items to be serviced.
Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena