Following the statements of Diego Ortega, Councilor for Decentralization and Sports of the City Council of Cartagena where he said that they were going to recover the figure of the district councilor, makes us doubt about the origin of the budget item sufficient to provide participatory budgets.
Providing budget to district councilors who were suppressed to implement participatory budgets, is a setback in the PSOE's commitment to the past legislature to give voice and participation to neighbors, suggests that the Popular Party of Cartagena wants to return to failure Pilar Barreiro city project that so many problems, in the form of judicial sentences, are causing the municipal coffers.
From the PSOE of Cartagena we believe that after this news you can hide the possibility of infringing and even suppressing the participatory budgets that had such a good reception among the residents of Cartagena.
Participatory budgeting was one of the most important measures developed by the PSOE in the previous legislature.
They allow the residents of the municipality to be involved in making decisions that most affect them on a day-to-day basis, making the budgetary application more democratic and transparent.
That is why any attempt to reduce its budget is a restriction of the democratic will of the inhabitants of the municipality to move from a collective decision process to another where the final decision is limited to one person.
Therefore, from the PSOE of Cartagena, we want to state that we will be against any measure that limits or eliminates participatory budgets.
Source: PSOE Cartagena