This proposal was submitted to the last Finance and Interior Committee of the year and was unanimously approved, "if the political groups do not change their voting intentions, this decision will be endorsed in plenary tomorrow and Cartagena will be able to hold the first debate on Its status very soon, "said the local spokesman of Citizens, Manuel Padín
The orange formation understands that a municipality with more than 217,000 inhabitants and with such a complex administrative organization, must have an effective instrument of control and analysis of the actions that are developed in each legislature
The last Finance and Interior Commission of this year took on its agenda the approval of the amendment of the Organic Regulation of the Plenum of the City of Cartagena, to include the obligation to hold a debate annually on the state of the municipality as requested by the Municipal Group of Citizens through a motion approved in the plenary session of the month of November.
If nothing changes in the orientation of the vote of the political groups, the municipal plenary will endorse this amendment of the Regulation tomorrow, for which an absolute majority is required (14 votes).
The mayor of Cartagena, José López, was in favor of holding the debate and that it is included in the Organic Regulation of the Plenary, but he made public his fear that in the future, "in the next legislature, there will be an absolute majority , And that absolute majority wants to modify the Rules of Procedure once again so that the debate will not be held ", as reflected in the minutes of the November Regular Plenary.
The spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, has replied that "it has been difficult to include it, the absolute majority in this city has had to disappear so that a debate of this kind can be held, but I think it will be even more difficult to eliminate this from the Only because of the penalization and the deep disapproval among the citizenship that would suppose. "
The orange formation understands that a municipality with more than 217,000 inhabitants and with such a complex administrative organization, must have an effective instrument of control and analysis of the actions that are developed in each legislature, not only to transfer to the citizenship and the Media the state of execution of the projects of the local government, but to make a complete radiograph of where and under what conditions Cartagena is at a certain time of the year.
According to Manuel Padín, "the Government would have the opportunity to be held accountable for its annual management and to report, on the one hand, those strategic actions carried out, and on the other, those matters that could not be settled within the established time limits."
In addition, for the local spokesman "the opposition groups could transfer to the citizens the deficiencies detected in the functioning of the Executive, and of the different services that it provides, as well as assess the Cartagena economic and social status as a whole, And virtues.
"On the other hand, it would mean a real optimization of our capacity to generate new strategic plans in the short, medium and long term," added the spokesperson for Citizens.
This Municipal Group does not know that there has ever been a debate of this kind in Cartagena, "what we want is that from this legislature establishes the obligation to perform one, whoever is in the local government, and has the Majority that has. ", Assured Manuel Padín.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena