- Citizens spokesman believes that "we are still in time to come to reason, and to get out of this nightmare of municipal paralysis, lack of investment, and political wars that seriously damage the interests of Cartagena."
"We ask the PSOE to reconsider its position to reach power at all costs, and sign with us a pact full of measures to regain the path of growth, wealth generation, and job creation, and pressure their Government partners to remove José López from his responsibilities until his legal case is clarified. "
The Municipal Group of Citizens today asked the PSOE and CTSSP-We can be consistent with their own ideals and political values, and do not allow anyone charged with corruption offenses to be part of the next government team.
The spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, says that only now they have in their hands "to avoid at the moment that a person who is being investigated for the alleged crimes of embezzlement, prevarication, influence peddling, and forbidden negotiations is in front Of the area of ​​Urbanism and Infrastructures of Cartagena ".
"We suppose that in the political party Citizen Movement there has to be another person who can take charge of the management of that area, I do not think everything starts and ends with José López, who in an exercise of exemplarity, coherence, prevention and transparency should leave the Act of councilman, just as he himself has demanded the charges of the Popular Party and PSOE, "said Manuel Padin who believes that" it would be unheard of not to do so, first because it would seriously damage his own party, and secondly because it would aggravate The crisis of government until the absolute blockade, because although it decides to stay in the Mayor's Office would do it against the overwhelmingly majority feeling of the Plenary, in that case we hope that the PSOE reacts at once and stops looking away and silent, pretending not to Nothing has happened, as if there was no judicial investigation for corruption against the mayor. "
"We do not understand that any party can work with this double standard measure, when it comes to the defendants themselves, does not move a finger and even defend them publicly and is claimed for the presumption of innocence, but when it comes to other parties , José López in this case, there is no time to ask for his immediate resignation, "Manuel Padín, who remembers that Citizens has made it clear," has set the bar very high, in the investigation for crimes of corruption, that is, when Judge believes that there are indications of criminality, but if we really want to recover the trust of the citizens we have no other choice, and that position we have maintained since we were born as a political formation.
As for the announcement today of CTSSP-We can not support the investiture until the mayor of Cartagena leaves his council, Cs spokesman said that on this occasion have been "consistent with his own ideology and ethical code, but also It is strange and striking that in his investiture pact signed on June 8 there was no condition that would prevent a corruption official from holding a public office when they knew that there was a complaint and therefore the possibility of what happened, And also that document was approved in its assemblies after knowing that Jose Lopez was imputed ".
The Citizens spokesman believes that "we are still in time to come to reason, and to get out of this nightmare of municipal paralysis, lack of investment, and political wars that seriously damage the interests of Cartagena."
"We ask the PSOE to reconsider its position to reach power at all costs, and sign with us a pact full of measures to regain the path of growth, wealth generation, and job creation, and press their Government partners to remove José López from his responsibilities until his legal case is clarified. "
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena