| Both leaders agree on the need to establish a common front against the centralism of San Esteban | In the period between 2008 and 2015, La Unión received 32 million euros less per inhabitant than the regional average This morning a working meeting took place between the councilors of MC Cartagena, José López, Jesús Giménez and María José Soler, and the mayor of La Unión, Pedro López Milán. During the meeting, held at the Casa del Pińón, headquarters of the La Unión City Council, the graduate in Business Administration and Management from the UPCT, Pablo Pérez, presented a report by the MC municipal group on the spending allocated to the Union councilor.
to the mining municipality in the regional budgets during the 2008-2015 period, this being the last year in which the autonomous government included in its accounts the detail of territorialized spending. The analysis of territorialized spending is an instrument that allows a homogeneous analysis of the distribution of regional budgets, since it is possible to verify the expenses of the regional administration in each municipality, allowing comparisons to be made between them. The report confirms that territorialized spending in La Unión is significantly lower than the average in the Autonomous Community.
Thus, the expenditure per inhabitant in La Unión ranges in the period 2008-2015 between 52 and 273 euros, while the regional average ranges from 260 to 510 euros and in the municipality of Murcia from 394 to 745 euros . Translated into global data, taking into account the expenditure per inhabitant destined for La Unión between 2008 and 2015, the mining municipality has received from the Government of San Esteban 32,424,283 euros less than the regional average, while in comparison with the city ??of Murcia the negative difference reaches 58,608,417 euros. Pedro López: "It is time for all the municipalities of the region to unite" The mayor of La Unión, Pedro López, has indicated that "we have learned through this study the under-financing that our municipality has and the rest of those that make up this Region of Cartagena, which should exist to have a counterweight in this Region". "This study shows that from 2008 to 2015 this municipality has stopped receiving more than 30 million euros.
It is time for all the municipalities in the Cartagena region to join together and claim what is ours for justice, so this MC initiative must be supported by all the mayors of this region, "said the Union councilor. José López: "We put ourselves at the service of the Mayor of La Unión and his neighbors to face the common, because together we are stronger" The municipal spokesman for MC Cartagena, José López, has pointed out that "Discrimination in the treatment of the Union by the San Esteban regime is summarized in almost 33 million euros less than the regional average, 59 less if given the deal with the lucky capital.
" It is one more proof of "the centralism of this Region that costs us so much and is a huge drag on the progress of our Region." For this reason, he assured that "from MC we have put ourselves at the service of the mayor of La Unión and its neighbors to face the common, because together we are stronger", announcing lastly that "this same presentation and study we have prepared for all municipalities of the Region ".
Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena