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- Citizen spokesman in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, hopes that "in the next few years learn from the mistakes made in this pilot experience, and the Government that develops them can meet the deadlines and budget that is reserved"
- "The important thing now is that the voting system, both face-to-face and online, be done with all the facilities, with an exquisite transparency, and under the principles of justice avoiding the advantages of one population sector over others", in that sense Manuel Padín has assured that his Municipal Group "will watch over the democratic health of the process, at the same time it will ask the Government to avoid when temptation to divert its responsibility with each and every one of the cartageneros through this instrument"
The Government of Cartagena today presented the definitive list of projects that have exceeded the sieve of legal, technical, and competence requirements.
In total there are 94 projects with a cumulative value of about 14 million euros which from February 16 until March 8 will be voted by the neighbors of Cartagena to fully configure the participatory budgets of 2017.
Citizen spokesman in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, hopes that "in the next few years he will learn from the mistakes made in this pilot experience, and the government that develops them can meet the deadlines announced publicly, this list comes with two months Of delay, even allowing the plenary to arrive, which had to approve the draft budgets without the task, caused us many problems and jeopardized the provisional approval of the accounting document. "
"In fact they have allowed themselves the luxury of blaming the delay in the number of proposals, that is to say, the desire of participation by the neighbors instead of blaming the gross lack of foresight by the local government," said Manuel Padín.
According to the spokesman for the orange formation, "it is not the only breach of what was announced as a hype since, although some bother remembering some things, in October and November 2016 the local administration promised to invest the 50 Percent of the investments, that is, around 2.5 million euros, and not 1.5 as there is now. "
On the other hand, the Citizens' spokesman has been able to confirm that the list includes the projects for Quarries and for the restoration of the Castle of the Watchtower, two amendments of the orange formation that were withdrawn at the last moment before the possibility of appearing between The projects of the neighbors, as informed the Councilor of Finance, Isabel Garcia.
On the other hand, "with this list in the hand we raise some doubts, how it is possible that one of the projects that will pass through the voting system is the improvement of the accessibility of Torres Park when it was one of Citizen's amendments Which were approved in the January plenary session, "the spokesman asked.
In any case, for Manuel Padín, "the important thing now is that the voting system, both face-to-face and online, be done with all the facilities, with an exquisite transparency, and under the principles of justice avoiding the advantages of some population sectors Others, "in that sense Manuel Padín has assured that his Municipal Group" will watch over the democratic health of the process, at the same time he will ask the Government to avoid when temptation to divert its responsibility with each and every one of the cartageneros through this instrument ".
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena
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