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- Make a preliminary list of options made by municipal technicians, more diffusion, and include a stipulation to avoid the inequality in the distribution of investments, are some of the measures proposed by the orange formation.

The Commission for the Follow-up of the Execution of Citizen Participation Projects was constituted today in the San Miguel Building.

The objective of this working table, in which the Citizen spokesperson in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, will participate, will be to analyze the pilot experience of the participatory budgets of 2017, to supervise the execution of the winning proposals and to collect suggestions to improve the edition of 2018 Manuel Padín celebrated the creation of this panel, "many of the problems and errors of the experience of last year would have been solved had the government had counted on the opposition groups."

The spokesman for the orange formation recalled that in 2016 the Government did not comply with its intention to allocate 50 percent of the investment to this budget mechanism, could not meet the deadlines that were handled, and the participation rate was significantly lower , "And in spite of everything we support the budgets, because we respect the work of the municipal technicians".

To prevent this from happening again, Citizens announced today that it will propose a battery of proposals to ensure that the process of citizen participation in budgets is fair, proportional, and effective.

"We are going to propose that a previous list of options be drawn up, drafted by the municipal technicians and agreed with the neighborhood groups, according to the needs and priorities of each area of ​​the municipality, thus avoiding the lack of concretion of the last edition in Which received more than 2,000 suggestions, "said Manuel Padin, who explained that many of them were discarded because" they were not municipal competition and others were already being executed. "

Other proposals of Citizens will be to limit a maximum percentage of investment in each district to make an equitable distribution, "we can not invest more than half of what is budgeted in a single area of ​​population and leave nothing to others, that has no Sense "has explained Manuel Padín that proposes to add" a stipulation in the bases to correct the territorial inequality ".

The Citizens' spokesman has also informed that his group will demand that for the participatory budgets of 2018, the amount to be reserved and the deadlines for voting and publication of the results be concretized and respected from the beginning, "we can not publicly promise a figure And then defraud our neighbors. "

Another issue in which Citizens will insist is the need to increase the promotion of this mechanism, "we must involve Cartagena society in this experience, motivate their participation and that can only be achieved through an ambitious campaign of information".

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena