- "None of the reasons for which the province is requested cease to be out of our reach with the Comarca, nor the creation of new judicial bodies, nor the improvement in the distribution of the financing of the Town Councils of the Region", has assured the spokesman of Cs.
- "We would achieve greater solidarity and territorial balance in the Region of Murcia, it would be a depoliticized management and coordination tool to gain efficiency in the use of local public resources, and would entail significant savings for the municipalities that would be part of the Comarca, through the pooling of services and the creation of a purchasing center ", said Manuel Padín.
The spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, attended today in the Consistorial Palace the Bureau for the Study of the Feasibility of the Province of Cartagena and other formulas of administrative decentralization, in which all municipal groups have presented their conclusions.
As agreed in the last session, with the purpose of putting them together for the preparation of a report addressed to the President of the Community, Fernando López-Miras and taking into account all the documentation provided in previous meetings, this Municipal Group considers that the provincial councils have been for years real political bars where, basically, they have placed those members of the political parties with whom they did not know what to do, and have become absolute nests of corruption, a waste of public money, an excuse to generate new unnecessary political positions of doubtful usefulness for Spaniards.
According to the spokesman of the orange training in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, "Citizens want a healthy, clean and dedicated to the resources to the important: health and education, and for that you have to eliminate duplication, it is very difficult to balance public accounts if the political bubble is maintained and is not cut in those games that have an excessive bureaucracy ".
Citizens has calculated that the elimination of the provincial councils in Spain can mean a saving of 5,000 million euros throughout the legislature.
For the above, the spokesman for Citizens believes that "the creation of these structures in the Autonomous Community is not desirable, among other things, because the provincial deputation of Cartagena would also create the provincial deputation of Murcia."
Proposal of Citizens: The Shire.
Within the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia there are territories with historical, cultural, economic, demographic and geographical characteristics homogeneous enough to constitute the starting point of an administrative proposal of localization that does not involve the creation of new positions or political structures neither generate duplicities nor superfluous and unnecessary expenses.
For Citizens, the decentralizing legal figure that could suppose an authentic optimization of public resources for Cartagena is the region.
"None of the reasons why the province is requested are no longer out of reach with the Comarca, nor the creation of new judicial bodies, nor the improvement in the distribution of funding for the municipalities of the region," he said. the spokesman of Cs, who clarifies that "as for the political weight of the Community in the Congress of Deputies, we agree that it is not proportional, we are underrepresented, but the solution is not to create more political posts and squander the money with the deputation provincial, but through the reform of the General Electoral Law (LOREG), which is demanding from the first day our party.
The legal provisions contemplate the creation of regional structures in our Autonomous Community, not as a mere faculty, but as a direct mandate to be developed legislatively.
From the Municipal Group consider that it is the opportune moment to establish the legal and procedural channels for its channeling.
The local spokesman of Citizens has recalled that "the advantages of a regional development of voluntary affiliation by interested municipalities that request it are clearly exposed in the recent study of the Constitutional Law professor at the University of Murcia, Francisco García Costa, and in the draft contributed to this Table of the proposal of law of creation of the region of Campo de Cartagena ".
Among other things, we would achieve greater solidarity and territorial balance in the Region of Murcia, would be a depoliticized management and coordination tool to gain efficiency in the use of local public resources, and would entail significant savings for the municipalities that were part, through the pooling of services and the creation of a purchasing center, which in turn would allow them to free up funds to invest in what is really needed: increase investments in strategic infrastructures, social assistance, education, or health ", explained Manuel Padín .
According to the aforementioned university report, a region made up of Cartagena, La Unión, Fuente Álamo and Torre Pacheco, in which the collection, waste management and treatment services, collective transport of travelers and prevention and extinction of fires are combined, would save these City councils approximately 5.7 million euros per year, regarding what it means to provide these services individually.
The spokesman for Citizens has announced that the Municipal Group has proposed to its regional deputies in the Assembly, and will be transferred to the president of the Autonomous Community through the conclusions of the Feasibility Bureau, conducting a study on administrative comarcalización of the Region of Murcia, that entails the constitution of a technical Commission integrated by entities and professionals of recognized prestige and capacity, as a necessary previous step to any initiative or legislative project in this area.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena