- Cs has achieved millionaire investments for the Campo de Cartagena, to stop waiting lists in Cartagena hospitals, for the regeneration of the Mar Menor and to implement school nursing in the schools of the municipality, among others
- Orange formation will present at the next regular plenary session a battery of investment proposals for Cartagena in 2019
- Cs warns Castejón: "With a toxic and populist political force like Podemos it will be difficult for Citizens to negotiate and approve municipal accounts"
Cartagena, Thursday December 21 -.
On the occasion of what has been published in recent days in relation to regional and municipal budgets for the year 2018, the Municipal Group of Citizens in Cartagena wants to express the following:
Regarding regional budgets, Ciudadanos believes that there is still a lot of pedagogy to be done between the citizens and the different political groups, so that it is understood what is the work that in its role of opposition can make Citizens to be useful to society, " they are not the budgets of Citizens, so we can design them we have to be the Government and we hope to reach that goal in 2019. The only thing we can do is condition them in exchange for our support to get some (not all) of our claims out ahead, such as the elimination of unjust taxes, such as the Succession and Donations that will save 14,000 citizens per year in the Region for the payment of 53 million euros, to finance key sectors such as health, with the destination of 10,600,000 euros for the reduction of the waiting lists, nine million euros for the professional career, three million euros for the nursing project in the centers
or allocate almost 16 million euros to subsidies and aid for the conversion of crops into organic farming, of which a good part will benefit the farmers of Campo de Cartagena.
Our colleagues in the Regional Assembly have also managed to contribute almost 29 million euros for the regeneration of the Mar Menor, among which are, 2,800,000 euros for research, and also nine million euros for the free textbooks , game that can not be executed if the PSOE continues to block the law in the Assembly.
Another item that will benefit Cartagena directly is the one that corresponds to 1,400,000 euros to improve the industrial estates, in which a good part will be destined for the Industrial Area of ​​Los Camachos.
According to the spokesman of Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, "only a partisan and interested reading, like the one that PSOE and MC have done these days, can conclude that these investments that Citizens has achieved for the Campo de Cartagena, to reduce the lists of wait in Cartagena hospitals, for the regeneration of the Mar Menor, for free textbooks, or for the implementation of the nursing service in Cartagena schools, do not positively affect our municipality, to say otherwise is deliberately lying, and deceive the citizens in a gross and crazy way ".
If these parties do not settle for the tantrum and would like to do something for Cartagena they would have sat down to negotiate as we did.
Now, once this is confirmed, the orange training spokesman asks "are the best budgets possible? Are the best budgets for Cartagena? We are convinced that this is not the case, to be closer to what we deserve we need to Citizens govern and can put into practice their values ​​of equality, equity and budgetary justice, but without a doubt Cartagena has come out better with the useful presence of Citizens that without it, it would have been worse for the Popular Party to do and undo regional accounts to its whim".
To demonstrate what Citizens for Cartagena had budgeted to be a Government, the Municipal Group will present a motion at the next ordinary plenary session to urge the Regional Assembly to consider a battery of investment proposals in Cartagena for 2019, "in In this sense, we are going to be much more ambitious than MC or PSOE, because we believe that Cartagena deserves it ", assured Manuel Padín.
"I think that MC is wrong because the needs of Cartagena are much greater", explained Manuel Padín.
About the ZAL of Cartagena
The spokesman of Citizens in Cartagena has ensured that his Parliamentary Group "will not forget a single euro of its amendments in 2016, 2017 and 2018, and of course not everything that the regional government promised to do with the Zone of Cartagena Logistics Activities, nor the 600,000 euros of 2016, nor the 500,000 euros for the transfer of the Deposit Franco of 2017 ".
"We want to make this clear and clear, we know that the spokesman for Citizens in the Region of Murcia, Miguel Sánchez, believes that the development of the ZAL of Cartagena is an inalienable and priority objective for our party, and in the last meeting we had with the entrepreneurs of Los Camachos, made it very clear: Citizens will demand the execution in 2018 of all the money that has been reserved for the logistics area since 2016 and that the PP Government should have already executed, that is, the million and a half Euros for the definitive impulse of the project The ZAL of Cartagena was rescued from the most absolute oblivion by Citizens in 2015 and despite the breaches of the PP, Cs will continue to press to get it up.
Municipal Budgets of Cartagena
Manuel Padín has sent today to the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, a serious warning, "it will be very difficult for Citizens to sit at the same negotiating table as we can to take forward the municipal accounts for 2018."
Manuel Padín also wanted to remember the responsibility and loyalty shown by Citizens for the approval of the 2016 budgets, as well as for 2017, and for the approval of the reduction of the fiscal pressure and public prices in those years, " our party has proven to be coherent, and has added and completed the budgets, to vary this political synergy is to jeopardize the accounts of 2018. "
"Podemos is a toxic and populist political force in whose conditions and proposals both for the inauguration of the mayor and for municipal budgets has included elements that go against the general interest of Cartagena and against all logic," said Manuel Padin who has put for example the nullity of the extension of Hidrogea or the conversion of the tariff rate "when there are legal reports that discourage it and that warn that the municipal coffers may have to face millionaire claims by the concessionaire, we can not work for that the Cartagena people get into debt to the eyebrows because of Podemos. "
"If the price of water decreases, our demand is not fulfilled until 2017, we will be able to sit down with the Government to negotiate the next budgets, for that possibility we have already prepared and we have available some amendments that are affordable, productive, and necessary for Cartagena ", assured the spokesman of Cs Cartagena, who believes that the best work that our Group can do for the municipal accounts, in addition to our initiatives, is to eliminate the influence of Podemos".
Finally, the spokesman for Citizens has stated that the position of our party in the Regional Assembly and the City of Cartagena makes us a key and desired actor for the preparation of budgets, "something that the PP thanks at the regional level and criticism at the municipal level, something that the PSOE thanks at the municipal level and criticizes at the regional level, we are used to the incoherence and the political strategy of the old parties, but we are only guided by an interest: the Cartagena and Murcia, the one of the citizens ".
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena