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- The local Citizens' spokesman, Manuel Padín, expressed his satisfaction at the change of attitude of the municipal Executive, "contrary to what happened last year, this time it is demonstrating the will to have all the groups of the Opposition to design the new edition of the participatory, so we can only thank the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, who has opened this possibility correcting the rush of the last campaign "

- The Orange Training is preparing a battery of proposals to ensure that the process of citizen participation in budgets is more fair and proportional

Cartagena, Wednesday, August 23.

The Municipal Citizens Group in Cartagena today received a communiqué from the Mayor of Cartagena asking for the collaboration of the orange training and the other training that belong to the Municipal Corporation to develop the new campaign Budgets Participativos 2018. The communication received specifies that the suggestions be sent before August 30.

The local Citizens' spokesman, Manuel Padín, expressed his satisfaction at the change of attitude in the Government of Cartagena, "contrary to what happened last year, this time it is demonstrating the will to have the groups of the Opposition to design the new edition of the participatory, so we can only thank the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, who has opened this possibility correcting the constrained precipitation of the last campaign, and listen to the suggestions we can offer.

In this sense, Manuel Padín, has assured that his group is preparing a battery of proposals to ensure that the process of citizen participation in budgets is fair, proportional, and effective.

"We will propose that a preliminary selection of proposals be prepared, drafted by the municipal technicians and agreed with the social agents and the most representative groups of each deputation, according to the needs and priorities that each area of ​​the municipality has. That the technicians of the councils involved prepare a report with the proposals presented in this phase of collection and quantify their technical and budgetary feasibility, then make a final list for public consultation and explain the reasons for discarding some projects, in this way We will avoid the lack of concreteness of the last edition in which more than 2,000 suggestions were received, "said Manuel Padín, who explained that many of them were excluded because" they were not municipal competition and others were already being executed. "

Another possibility that Citizens wants to put on the table of the Commission for Follow-up of Execution of Citizen Participation Projects will be to study the desirability of defining a maximum percentage of investment in each district to make an equitable distribution, "we can not invest more Of half of what is budgeted in a single area of ​​population and leaving nothing to others, that does not make any sense and is what happened last year, which was harshly criticized by the neighbors of many deputations, "Manuel Padín explained. Proposes to add "a stipulation in the bases to correct the territorial inequality in the investments".

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 voting and publication deadlines of the results be concretized and respected from the beginning, "we can not publicly promise A figure, or commit to some dates and then defraud our neighbors. "

In addition, Citizens will insist is the need to increase the promotion of this mechanism, "we must involve Cartagena society in this experience, motivate their participation much more and that can only be achieved through an ambitious and aggressive information campaign Promoted by the City Council, but with the collaboration of all its Neighborhood Boards, neighborhood groups, and associations through the media, and using all available official channels.

On the other hand, the orange formation wants to avoid that the participatory budgets are closed after the approval of the municipal budgets, to increase the security in the voting system, and that the transparency portal of the Web of the Town council publishes monthly the degree of execution of The winning participatory projects differently from the other budget investments.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena