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- The report of the Association of Directors and Managers of Social Services points to Cartagena as one of the municipalities with a precarious budget in social services.

- Citizen spokesman in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, said that his Municipal Group "has set an objective to work for the local government to continue increasing these items in the next municipal budgets."

The State Association of Directors and Managers of Social Services has recently published an analysis of the items allocated to Social Services and Social Promotion in the municipal budgets of municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants, data published by the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration.

In their breakdown there is an epigraph where a list of those consistories that have a precarious budget in social services (less than 50 € per inhabitant and year), and that do not contribute information, and in this list with a total of 79 Appears the one of Cartagena.

The investment that Cartagena dedicates to this chapter is so scarce that the directors and managers of Social Services "doubt their ability to provide the most basic social services and benefits to their citizens."

The study has taken care of several criteria to carry out the analysis, among them, to consider that a precarious City Council is one with a budget less than 50 percent of the average budgetary in this matter of the set of Town Councils of more than 20,000 inhabitants.

Among the criteria to establish the categories is also the maintenance or increase in 2016 of the amount of social budget, to exceed in this matter 10 percent of the total budget and that access to this information through the web sites of municipalities Be absolutely transparent.

According to the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, "nobody can escape the economic problems that Cartagena has experienced in recent years, and we know how difficult it has been to balance the numbers in the last municipal budgets, but we are worried and It hurts that the City Council of Cartagena is one of those identified as precarious investments in Social Services, and we are forced to leave that list, and reach, as a first objective, to keep above 50 euros per capita per year. "

According to the leader of the orange formation, "one of the objectives that we have set ourselves as a Municipal Group is to fight for an increase in the budget for the care of our fellow citizens, to dignify and improve social services and with that goal we will meet The local executive. We can not tolerate or allow for any longer to remain one of the six municipalities of the Autonomous Community that least invests in social policy.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena