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- "We have asked for a preliminary selection of proposals for action, drafted by the municipal technicians and channeled through the Neighborhood Boards, and the most representative groups of each deputation, according to the needs and priorities of each area of ​​the municipality" , explained the spokesman of Cs Cartagena, Manuel Padín.

Cartagena, Monday, September 11.

The spokesman for the Municipal Citizen Group in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, attended today the meeting of the Monitoring Commission for Participatory Budgets where the status of implementation of winning projects in 2017 has been discussed and proposals have been collected to improve the process of participation in the budgets of 2018.

The spokesperson for the orange formation has presented in the Commission a battery of proposals to ensure that the process of citizen participation in budgets is more operational and that the mistakes of 2017 are not repeated, "we have asked that a previous selection be made of proposals of action, drafted by the municipal technicians and channeled through the Juntas Vecinales and the most representative groups of each deputation, according to the needs and priorities that each area of ​​the municipality has. "

"Once the projects have been collected, this group proposes that the technicians of the councils involved prepare a report to calculate the technical and budgetary feasibility of all proposals, then draw up a definitive list and submit it to public consultation, clearly explaining the reasons for the disposal of some projects, if we do not do so again we will suffer the lack of concretion of the last edition in which more than 2,000 suggestions were received, the overwhelming majority of the relevant Neighborhood Board. "

"We can not start the house on the roof as we did last year, the technicians had to sift through the viable and necessary projects among thousands of suggestions, this technical list must be done previously and listening to the Neighborhood Boards and the most important associations, especially in those territories that are not represented by a neighborhood council, and then submit to public consultation a definitive selection.

The Citizens' spokesman has also informed that his group has demanded 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 promise publicly a figure, or commit to a few dates and then defraud our neighbors as has already happened with the last, we must learn from our mistakes. "

In addition, Citizens will insist on 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 driven campaign 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, "said Manuel Padín.

On the other hand, the orange formation wants to prevent 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