This morning, after the celebration of the Commission for Monitoring Participatory Budgets held in the administrative building of San Miguel, the deputy spokesperson of the MC Cartagena municipal group, Isabel García, has put the accent on the "irresponsible" way of proceeding of the Government socialist.
"Through several budgetary modifications, for an amount close to one million euros, Castejón and his foreman and little hands Torralba continue mortgaging the 2019 budget to finish the works that were unable to finish last year", has begun.
Then he has delved into the 'whys' that underlie the performance of the Castejón Executive.
"In his obsession to have works to inaugurate with great fanfare, even at the cost of overcoming ridicule, as he did the other day with the character of cartoons, he is capable of sacrificing games as important as the one that would have to be used to the study on water quality ".
"They did not do it in 2018, nor will they do it during their last year of government, but the people of Cartagena already know what the mayor cares about her health." Zero But, in addition, the much-needed Plan to Promote Trade in Proximity or the "Costa de Cartagena" Master Plan have also been discarded by Castejón and theirs, two key projects to cement the medium and long term growth of the municipality and agree on actions related to the environment, infrastructures and tourism on our coast "
Inexplicable delays
Subsequently, the Cartagena leader said "not understand how the works of the Participatory Budgets of 2018, whose projects were drafted in the months of February and March, were not completed before the end of the year, despite being small projects and limited in amount to 75,000 euros, that is to say, the PSOE chokes him big and small, even performances that in some cases are sheet metal and paint.
García recalled that "absolutely nothing has been advanced on some of the most voted proposals, such as the Master Plan of the Cathedral or the enhancement of the Cándido Garden".
In this context, he has denounced that "today we are called to a meeting to discuss the Participatory Budgets of 2019, when we know nothing of the municipal budget for this year." They intended to wrest from us a commitment to cover their attempt to draw electoral participatory budgets but As usual, they arrive late and what they are trying to sell today is nothing more than an attempt to deceive the neighbors, more window dressing than ever, trying to allow us to make a headline today knowing that it will not be viable. "
He then clarified that "MC Cartagena is committed to Participatory Budgeting, in fact, we put it into action, but we can not be responsible for a new deception of the PSOE to Cartagena."
The effects 'Caostejón'
The socialist action will have an impact after the municipal elections, an issue that the new Executive will have to assume.
This is what Garcia announced when he declared that "when we return to the Government we will find a mortgaged budget." To the budgetary modifications for Castejón to make his electoral campaign, we must add the annual million that we will have to pay for the annulment of the El Vivero Partial Plan and the five million that it now intends to pay for the Army Subsistence Factory to be the seat of the future City of Justice. "
This last operation has been explained by the mayor of Cartagena.
"Another brilliant management, we pay for a state building, whose owner is a ministry, to give it to another ministry." It seems that in this transmission, Defense, rather than acting for public interest, is doing so as a real estate agent, charging a commission for a property of yours to pass to the Ministry of Justice. "
Isabel García has continued to state that "it seems that neither the Castejón del Ayuntamiento nor the Castejón of the central government are betting on Cartagena, they want the people of Cartagena to pay six million euros for transferring property from one ministry to another."
"Once again, the people of Cartagena have not enjoyed the luck that our neighbors in Murcia have had, and they have managed to get the Castle of Monteagudo, attached to the Ministry of Finance, to the Culture Department, which will allow words of the holder of this last portfolio, that do not have to pay for them, being included in the rehabilitation project ".
Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena