"Citizens have already said that we are betting to open the debate on the development of the regions in the Autonomous Community, these administrative entities can and should facilitate the joint services to substantially reduce spending in municipalities that make it up and free up funds to invest in What really needs to be done: to increase investments in strategic infrastructures, social assistance, education, health, "said the spokesperson for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín.
Cartagena, Monday, April 3.
The Councilors of Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padin and Ana Rama, attended this morning in the Consistorial Palace to the Working Table that studies the feasibility of the restitution of the Province of Cartagena, as well as other forms of administrative decentralization, created by agreement Of the plenary of the City of Cartagena.
The University of Murcia Professor of Law, Francisco Manuel García Costa, today presented to the members of the commission the report prepared by university experts on the creation of the Comarca del Campo de Cartagena, which was already exposed on March 15 In the Hall of Degrees of the Faculty of Law of the University of Murcia.
Citizen spokesman Manuel Padín said after the meeting that "Citizens have already said that we are committed to open the debate on the development of the regions in the Autonomous Community of Murcia, these administrative entities can and should facilitate the common services common To reduce substantially the spending in the municipalities that make it up and free up funds to invest in what is really needed: increase investments in strategic infrastructure, social assistance, education, health ... ".
Manuel Padín explains that in Citizens, "we need to carry out a study on the administrative comarcalization of the Region that entails the constitution of a Technical Commission composed of entities and persons of recognized prestige and technical capacity, as a necessary step for any initiative or Legislative project in this area, and which should include this report and proposal of the University of Murcia.
Depoliticized counties
According to the spokesperson for the Orange Formation, "what we also have very clear is that we do not want the comarcalización to involve the creation of new positions or political structures, nor generate redundancies and superfluous and unnecessary expenses.I do not think there is a single Cartagena that creates That more political seats are needed, and more parliaments, a politicized regional model is not sustainable or desirable, it only promotes, as in the case of provincial councils, more nests of corruption, more duplicities, more fingertips, and more clientelism, The region that we defend in Citizens must function as a depoliticized community, to which the municipalities can voluntarily adhere to the provision of common public services. "
"They should be an instrument at the service of citizens, a tool that allows certain municipalities to group together to manage their resources in a more efficient and rational way, and not an excuse to increase the political bubble at the expense of the taxpayers' pocket," Designated Padín.
The spokesman of Cs Cartagena highlighted the considerable savings of 5.7 million euros a year, which would mean that the municipalities of Cartagena, La Unión, Fuente Álamo and Torre Pacheco combined only three services (collection, management and treatment of Waste, collective transport of people and fire prevention and extinction).
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena