The transfer of the headquarters of the Government Delegation of the Coastal Demarcation, the creation of an administrative region to save costs, and the review and control of the distribution of investment in regional budgets, in the spotlight of the liberal party so that Cartagena reaches the territorial weight it deserves
"Return to Cartagena the lost institutional dignity and strengthen its territorial weight in the Community", is one of the main points in the autonomous and municipal electoral program of Cs;
According to the candidate for mayor of Cartagena, Manuel Padín, "the liberal project is committed to an efficiency understood as the centralization of regional management, but territorially decentralized.
Therefore, in a first phase, we will promote the transfer of the Ministry of Tourism to the municipality and we will launch a report on technical feasibility and economic suitability for the transfer of Customs to Cartagena, two historical demands that PP and PSOE have ignored for too many years".
On the other hand, Citizens has reminded that it remains pending to give green light the transfer of the headquarters of the Delegation of the Government of the Demarcation of Coasts to the city, "is a sensible and necessary option, supported by the Plenary of Cartagena, that without a doubt is in line with our plan to convert Cartagena into the Mediterranean capital of the blue economy, our city can not be satisfied with a mere office of Costas, the PSOE must already pronounce and respond to this demand, because Cartagena does not want to wait more ", says the orange spokesman who maintains that Cartagena has been underestimated during decades of bipartisanship that has not wanted to take advantage of its potential," Cs was born precisely to fight political blindness like this one ".
To further increase the territorial force, Cs is committed to launching a study on the administrative regionalization of the Region of Murcia, which entails the establishment of a technical committee composed of entities and professionals of recognized prestige and ability, as a necessary first step to any initiative or legislative project in this area.
"Some of the advantages of a regional development in the zone of Cartagena and the Mar Menor, with the voluntary assignment by the interested municipalities, is that it would be a depoliticized management and coordination tool to gain efficiency in the use of public resources. local, would bring significant savings to the municipalities that were part, through the pooling of services and the creation of a central purchasing, which would in turn release funds to invest in what is really needed: increase investments in strategic infrastructure , social assistance, education, or health ", explained Manuel Padín.
Regional financing
In addition, Citizens has committed to work together with the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces for a fair and proportional distribution of the investment of regional budgets among the municipalities that make up the Region of Murcia, and the progressive elimination of the economic burden the assumption of improper competences.
"The new Local Financing Law is the key document that will mark a good part of the financial capacity of our City Council, but it is also important that we recover the calculation of territorialized expenditure in the design of regional budgets as a measure to encourage equity in the distribute and hinder, make almost impossible, the budgetary discrimination of Cartagena or any other municipality, "announced the spokesman for Citizens who recalled that Cartagena, in addition to not receiving a single euro of the 200 million received by the Community as a provincial deputation, has been underfunded from 2008 to 2016 with respect to regional average, and especially with respect to other important municipalities such as Murcia or Lorca, according to a study of the UPCT ".. According to Manuel Padín," we have stopped perceiving 14 million euros in eight years thanks to the unfair, capricious, and discriminatory distribution of regional investment by the Go
bierno of the PP, "something that we have been able to soften with the arrival of Citizens to the Regional Assembly in 2015, and we want to correct completely from the regional government because justice and war against territorial privileges is one of our hallmarks."
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena