Mar�a Jos� Soler: "The Government is complicit; they try to prevent members from working for their neighbors" The lack of transparency and boycott of participation, a common practice of the local government of PP, tr�nsfugas and Cs, is reflected in the neighborhood councils.
In this sense, 10 of the 12 neighborhood councils that hold PP and the members appointed by the tr�nsfuga mayor, with the invaluable 'help' in some cases of the crutch of Cs, have breached the Participation Regulations that oblige the convocation of at least four ordinary plenary sessions per year.
In some cases, such as La Puebla or El Llano del Beal, only a plenary session has been convened.
For this reason, as the councilor of MC Cartagena, Mar�a Jos� Soler, has advanced, "during the next municipal plenary session we will demand that the local government urge the presidents of the Neighborhood Councils to comply with the Participation Regulations.
½n and convene at least four ordinary plenary sessions during this year ".
For the Cartagena councilor, the excuse of the pandemic is unfounded, since, as has been asked, "Do the only two Boards that have complied with the Regulation not suffer from the same pandemic?" "The Government of PP, tr�nsfugas and their orange crutch is an accomplice and a necessary collaborator of this censorship and veto to participation.
Not only do they not require the presidents they have placed in the presidencies to comply the Regulation, but, furthermore, they have not been able to provide the technical means that facilitate participation nor have they shown any interest in preventing the members' right to work for their neighbors from being taken away.
In addition, it denies the latter the possibility of making their legitimate demands reach, "explained Soler.
Contempt for the participation of the Government of Arroyo y Castej�n Mar�a Jos� Soler recalled that in 2020 "we presented initiatives to reconvene the Committee for the Modification of the Citizen Participation Regulations that has not been convened for more than two years.
± os (January 9, 2019), paralyzing an issue as important as the adaptation and distribution of the entire municipal term in Juntas Vecinales ".
"And as if this were not enough, in the 2021 budget they eliminate participatory budgets in favor of increasing the games of district councilors.
Or what is the same, they charge the participation to buy wills, something that does not hide the Arroyo and Castej�n's absolute disregard for the neighbors' problems and their right to participate to solve them, "added the MC councilor.
MC initiatives It should be remembered that MC has presented various initiatives in recent months for the local government to urge the presidents of the Neighborhood Councils to enable the necessary means to convene telematic meetings, in addition to requiring the Municipal Government to enable the possibility of calling plenary sessions not in person.
In addition, the local government was requested to provide the Neighborhood Councils with the technical and human resources necessary for the sessions of the plenary sessions of the Neighborhood Councils to be recorded and the audio acts published on the City Council website, improving transparency and favoring the right to information of neighbors.
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Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena