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Cartagena, March 4, 2020.- On February 24, the PSOE of Cartagena, warned that the municipal executive "had decided to undermine or suppress the budget for participatory budgets," and today we find confirmation to this augury which is the frontal rejection of one of the most significant projects promoted by the PSOE to make municipal budgets as democratic as possible.

From the PSOE of Cartagena we have denounced the drift towards policies of the past, that so much money is costing us all the inhabitants of the municipality through condemnatory judicial sentences.

This executive has again forgotten people, suppressing citizen participation at a stroke, and returning to personalist policies that all they are looking for is personal show-off and leave aside the well-being of all Cartagena's neighbors.

In this regard, the Secretary of the Area of ​​Decentralization and Participatory Budgets, Obdulia Gómez, said that "The decision to suppress participatory budgets is a step backwards for budgetary democracy."

The project of participatory budgets involved the implementation of a purely socialist idea, which gave voice and vote to the residents of Cartagena to determine what actions were carried out in their territories, giving municipal budgets a character purely democratic, encouraging citizen participation, sharing and bringing municipal management closer to citizens, all these concepts being hallmarks of the socialist project.

With the elimination of the budget item for participatory budgets, it is possible to verify the clear intention of the municipal executive to silence the citizen initiative, moving from a process where decisions are taken collectively to another where everything will depend on the criteria of a person, that supposes the ability to return to restore the clientelistic networks with which they feel so comfortable in the Popular Party.

From the PSOE of Cartagena, we demand that the Municipal Executive reverse its intention to eliminate the voice of citizenship in municipal budgets, and forget its intention to return to times past absent from participatory democracy.

Source: PSOE Cartagena