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More than a dozen mayors from the region met this afternoon, at the request of the first mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, with the president of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) and mayor of Vigo, Abel Caballero, With the purpose of bringing to the Government of the nation a series of claims that are considered vital to ensure the proper functioning of local administrations.

Specifically, the mayors who attended the meeting are Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía;

Águilas, M.ª Carmen Moreno;

Alguazas, Blas Ángel Ruipérez;

Beniel, M.ª Carmen Morales;

Blanca, Mª Esther Hortelano;

Caravaca de la Cruz, José Moreno Medina;

Ceutí, Juan Felipe Cano;

Cieza, Pascual Lucas;

Fuente Álamo, Antonio Jesús García Conesa;

The Union, Pedro López;

Librilla, Mar Hernández Porras;

Lorquí, Joaquín Hernández;

Los Alcázares, Anastasio Bastida;

Mazarrón, Alicia Jiménez;

Mula, Jesús Moreno;

Pliego, Pedro Noguera;

San Javier, José Miguel Luengo;

San Pedro del Pinatar, María Visitation Martinez;

Torre Pacheco, Antonio León Garre, and Ulea, Victor Manuel López, and the lieutenants of mayor of Murcia, Maria del Carmen Pelegrín, and Lorca, Francisco Felix Montiel.

Among the petitions they have submitted, the central government complies with the commitment to revise the spending rule to municipalities through a working group that should have met during the first half of the year.

They have also called for the removal of indebtedness restrictions, which prevent local governments from performing credit operations.

The mayor of Cartagena recalled that the public debt limit for 2016 was 3% of the Gross Domestic Product and that local entities have more than fulfilled the targets set until 2020.

In this sense Caballero explained that "municipalities such as Cartagena, which have been able to reduce their debt by more than 56 million euros in just two years should have the support of the central administration to minimize short-term treasury tensions."

Equally noteworthy is the request to be able to use the surplus obtained by the city councils, and which until now was subject to debt repayment, in matters as important as education, employment, culture or sport.

"Cartagena had a surplus of 15.5 million euros in 2016 and the State forced us to allocate 50% to amortize debt in advance.

With the more than 7 million euros that we have advanced we could have made very necessary investments in our municipality, "said Castejón.

The mayor of Cartagena argued that they could have invested in "the construction of 15 medical offices, the rehabilitation of 70 more social housing, the adequacy of parks, the launch of new libraries and schools for children or complete the network of football fields artificial grass".

Another of the requests of the mayors of the Region is that the State allows municipalities to cover 100% of the replacement rate, so that in the next few years recover the nearly 100,000 jobs that have been lost in local administrations Of all the Spanish territory.

They also recalled the ruling of the Constitutional Court that obliges municipalities to return the capital gains collected in sales operations in which the owners have not obtained any benefit.

This is the application of a rule that emanated directly from the State Government and the mayors consider that it is not fair that the local administrations are responsible for these payments.

"The ruling of the TC is causing a scenario of legal insecurity in the municipalities.

As it is a state rule that we apply in the municipalities, we urgently need the Government of Spain to address a comprehensive tax reform that tribute to the real evolution of the real estate market and that takes into account the economic capacity of the taxpayer.

In this way, the municipalities could resolve the claims that are occurring as a result of this ruling, "said the president of the FEMP, Abel Caballero.

On the other hand, the president of the Federation of Municipalities of the Region of Murcia (FMRM), Joaquín Hernández, emphasized the main claim of the entity that represents, and is a local financing law, "we are not receiving money in The town councils for the absence of provincial deputation in this Autonomous Community, and that is what we are going to claim, financing by the Community, because it is our right. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena