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The mayor of Cartagena, Jose López, gave Friday to know the conclusions that, together with the economic adviser, Antonio García, and legal, Jesús Jiménez, mayor, have arrived after carrying out a study of the regional budgets for this year 2017, mainly in the areas of investment destined for Cartagena.

For Lopez, as with 2016, they are optimistic and unrealistic, and they are excessively inflated, which means that the degree of execution of the same, which last year was between 28 and 33 by the way, will not be Higher this year.

Thus, although the sum of the expenditure projects in the municipality of Cartagena for 2017 is somewhat larger, 84.6 million euros compared to 81.9 the previous year, Antonio García asserted that many of those projects in which Think to invest are the same as in 2016 have not been met, as is the case of items related to Education where the degree of execution has been 0 (as examples, the school of La Aljorra, for which had budgeted 1 million Of euros, or the remodeling of the Hespérides center, for 1.7 million euros, in none has been spent anything).

They have also emphasized the items related to actions in the Mar Menor, where in 2016 they were budgeted 3.5 million euros and the expense was 1.3, which implies a degree of execution of 38.9 percent, Which, according to Antonio Garcia, shows a management problem, we now have to see what happens with the 21.3 million budgeted for 2017.

The first mayor, José López, who regretted that the regional executive had not considered the requests for the municipality that sent him by letter and by placing them at a meeting to discuss projects that, finally, has not been held, has clarified that the appearance Today is an appeal to the responsibility of the opposition political groups in the Regional Assembly, which has called for them to agree and oblige the government to comply with the amendments they have submitted to the budgets, so that Invest in launching outstanding infrastructure projects in the city, such as the recovery of the Mar Menor, the ZAL, the arrival of High Speed, FEVE or improvements in agriculture.

Regarding the municipal budgets, the mayor has announced that they are finishing up with the participatory budgets that include the suggestions of the neighbors, that is why their presentation has been somewhat delayed, but will go to the first plenary of 2017, which Will be held in January.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena