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| Isabel García: "With the Local Government Financing Law we would be closer to guaranteeing budget stability" | This morning, the councilor of the Municipal Group MC Cartagena, Isabel García, explained the initiative that she will defend in the ordinary plenary session next Thursday so that the local Executive requires "the regional government to pay the improper powers assumed and paid for by the Cartagena City Council and its inclusion in the 2021 regional budgets ". In the current delicate context, the Cartagena councilor has described as "essential" the positioning of the regional administration to "rescue the municipalities and face the large amounts related to powers that do not correspond to us by law but that the consistories assume totally or in a complementary way ".

At this point are areas such as Social Services, Education or maintenance of offices. Immediately afterwards, the mayor recalled the many years that "the region's city councils have been demanding a Local Government Financing Law that regulates their participation in the income of the CARM.

In this way, we would be closer to guaranteeing stability budget to provide the services assumed with guarantees ". "The obligation to bear these expenses is aggravated by the current situation and the need for municipalities to reduce the tax burden on companies and individuals, so that revenues are reduced.

However, what cannot be avoided it is to provide services related to improper competences that, in the case of Cartagena, exceed fourteen million euros per year ", García has argued. "The economy of a city council in times of crisis is devastating.

In the specific case of the one caused by COVID-19, the role played by the closest administration in the provision of social services is undeniable, as well as the fact that using those resources can remain more neglected other areas such as citizen security, asphalt, lighting or the environment ", added the councilor of MC Cartagena "For this reason, and because our obligation is to remind the regional government that it must be sustenance and not a rope for the municipalities, we demand that it assume its responsibility in the financing of the municipalities by paying for these competences and including the necessary items in the regional budgets of 2021" , has concluded Isabel García.

Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena