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-The orange training doubt that the marathon plenary sessions are really operational and digestible for the Government of Cartagena and proposes that the possibility of limiting the presentation of motions, requests and questions be discussed

Citizens Cartagena supported in the plenary session of April the proposal of the Citizen Movement party to create a commission to be in charge of reforming the Organic Regulation of the Plenary (ROP) of the City Council, but since then it has not even been constituted, despite the fact that the Socialist spokesperson , Obdulia Gómez, assured Cs questions that would be convened in the month of September.

The spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, reported that his group "has long analyzed the regulation and prepared some proposals for modification to make it more effective, democratic and decisive, we even had some meetings with other Municipal Citizens groups at the time. and other political formations to contrast our ideas. "

In the orange training, they consider that the integral reform of the Plenary Organic Regulation can not wait any longer to adapt it to the new needs that have arisen over time.

The current ROP dates from 2006 and has, according to Cs, correspondence errors between articles (for example, article 31.1 refers to article 30.1.d, which does not exist).

In addition, it accuses a strong lack of concreteness, and a disorganization in its general structure.

The spokesman for Citizens has reported that there is much work ahead to have an ROP updated, and modern, and has given some examples of the problems that the current has "it is difficult to find in Spain any city whose record of prayers and motions without limit ends only twenty hours before the same celebration of the Plenary, or that the Board of Spokesmen takes place only forty-five minutes before the plenary session, making it almost impossible to rigorously study each proposal. "

"It is true that we have managed to correct the latter, but only at the expense of a verbal agreement between the municipal spokesmen" clarified Manuel Padín.

Marathon sessions without meaning

There is no general regulation that regulates the number of motions and questions that each political party can present at a municipal Plenary, but it is the internal regulations of each municipality that establish it.

As a result we have a great disparity of situations between the municipal groups of one and another municipality to be able to raise proposals, very limited in some cases and, in others to the contrary, without a maximum limit.

There are municipalities where the situation is very strict as in San Sebastian de Los Reyes or Córdoba, where municipal groups can only submit one motion and four questions per session, in the Pontevedra City Council two initiatives were agreed per group and session, while in others, such as Cartagena, do not have a maximum number and about 150 initiatives are being debated, full of replies and counter-replies, as at the last plenary session.

Citizens understand that it is desirable to find a middle point between a strict limitation and the current collapse, but understands that this issue is delicate and that it should be agreed with all political groups in the Commission to reform the ROP, "we want to gain efficiency and operability but we do not want any group to think that the opposition's capacity for action is being cut, so it must be a decision of all. "

In any case, it seems reasonable to put some kind of limit, "it is not possible for this Government, or for any other, to face hundreds of initiatives every month, so we only managed to collapse the technical services of our City Council and not take anything forward; It is necessary to "rationalize" and not "saturate" the content of the plenary sessions and their duration, and also to establish measures to regulate interventions and timekeeping, "said Manuel Padín, who said that" it seems strange that in the municipal Plenary of Cartagena will debate more proposals than in the plenary sessions of big cities like Madrid or Barcelona ".

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena