666 neighbors had already voted this morning in the pilot experience of participatory budgets for the years 2017, promoted by the City of Cartagena through the Department of Finance and the Area of ​​Transparency, Good Governance and Participation.
The majority of these votes, 505 had been made by the interested parties in person, attending personally to the municipal and neighborhood agencies where they have qualified ballot boxes.
The remaining votes, 165 had been made online through the website, where you can choose the projects selected using a digital certificate or pin identification.
By localities they stand out the 173 votes that have already been collected in the locality of Santa Ana;
Followed by the 39 of Los Dolores;
25 in La Puebla;
23 in La Manga and 20 in El Algar, among others.
Voting began on Thursday, February 16 and will run until March 5.
Neighbors older than 16 years who are registered in the municipality of Cartagena will be able to choose the destination of 1,569,387 euros, among 93 projects in which the 2,332 proposals made in a first phase by the citizens themselves materialized.
Of these projects, 53 correspond to deputations, and cover actions in matters of heritage recovery;
lighting;
sports facilities;
Parkland;
Pedestrian access;
Track arrangements;
Reordering of traffic;
public places;
Among other initiatives.
In order to favor the votes, ballot boxes have been installed in the Administrative Building of San Miguel, in the OMITAS and in the neighborhood associations where there are no OMITAS.
In the decentralization offices, in addition to the usual opening hours of tomorrow, it has been extended in the afternoon in an extraordinary way, from 17.00 to 20.00, so that in each district and deputation can also vote in the afternoon.
You can also vote electronically with digital certificate or pin through the contiGo platform, integrated in the municipal web.
To vote in person it is necessary to show the National Identity Document.
The process has been computerized to avoid duplicities and endow it with greater rigor.
Citizens can vote up to three projects.
The polls will open, in a public act, on March 8
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena