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The Citizens' spokesperson in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, stated that "we decided to allow the continuity of participatory budgets in the last plenary session (before the CTSSP-We could call for their suspension) despite everything because we consider that the effort and the Time that the municipal officials have dedicated to this work has been enormous and we could not throw it by land "

The Citizen spokesman in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, was present this morning in the administrative building of San Miguel Street, in the public act of opening of ballot boxes and count of the votes deposited by the citizens on the occasion of the so-called Participative Budgets .

Manuel Padín reiterated today that he hoped that the innumerable mistakes made in this pilot experiment had been taken note of, and that the government team that organized the following could fulfill what it promises, that is, Deadlines that have been announced, and the budget reserved;

The list of projects arrived with months of delay and even led to the plenary session where the general budgets had to be approved without much of the investment decided upon seriously jeopardizing our support for the provisional approval of the accounting document. "

The Citizens' spokesman said that "we decided not to oppose participatory budgets (before the motion of CTSSP-We could be asked to stop in the last plenary session) despite everything because we consider that the effort, the hours that municipal officials have dedicated To this work we could not throw them by land, and because it was a pilot experience ".

The mayor of Ciudadanos believes that there has been "a lack of concreteness in the call for the participation of the Carthaginians, who obviously have asked for many small arrangements of asphalt, lighting and gardens, but we believe that for that are precisely the neighborhood councils of the councils, And for that one can and must go to the vowels that each municipal group has represented there;

Perhaps we should have narrowed the options in a plural but restricted way so that we did not request through the participatory budgets claims that should be collected by those neighborhood participation bodies that are the boards. "

According to Padín, "the participation has been scarce, probably due to the precipitation with which everything has been designed;

In a population of about 217,000 people who have only just over 4,000 people come to the polls, can not be considered a good thing, and somehow reveals the rush, the wrong strategy and the lack of organization, but we also understand that The local government recognizes these facts, and for our part, we can only hope that they do not repeat them, and of course watch over the transparency of the count;

When we have the winning projects will be the time to make our assessment, the analysis of the costs and positive results that the citizens have had this process.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena