- On the reduction of the water proposed by MC now of 20 euros, the spokesman for Citizens, Manuel Padín, says he does not understand "how in January of 2017 José López assured that the reduction he would propose would be about 6 euros (10% on average) , to then say that maybe it could reach 9 euros ... but that figure has doubled magically since he is again in opposition "
- Cs responds to Pilar Marcos: "now it turns out that the secretary of the Plenary is also the right Cartagena according to Podemos, I think it's a lie that the CTSSP spokesperson does not respect the criteria of the officials of this City"
Citizens today has supported in the extraordinary session of the Finance and Interior Commission the establishment of a Commission of Investigation, whose purpose is the contract for the concession of water supply and sanitation services.
The creation of this oversight body has gone ahead with the support of all the political groups.
Regarding the second point of the agenda, the proposal on the resolution of the appeal filed by ASEPUCAR in January 2004 against the plenary agreement of November 2003, which approved the modification of the contract with Hidrogea, has been eliminated on the understanding that the Plenary is not competent in this matter, and because it is considered that it is already resolved in a negative manner as a consequence of administrative silence.
"It is clear, and we have always said, that Ciudadanos is not going to oppose the creation of a commission of inquiry, but I wanted to remind the Finance Committee that there is a Commission for Monitoring and Control of the Water Contract constituted since October of 2016, and that is where all these issues should have been worked on, researched and analyzed, "explained Manuel Padín, who pointed out that" it seems that there had not been a Mayor's office in these two and a half years to fill this monitoring table with content or to solve or answer the resources that interpose, what has the local government been doing these two and a half years? ".
According to Manuel Padín, "now it turns out that the Monitoring Commission is not valid for these matters, that we have lost time there, that a Commission of Investigation is required and I fear that all this is nothing more than a populist maneuver to delay in time the controversy and thus seek electoral revenues for 2019. "
MC and its fluctuating price of water
"And now the government ex-partner, MC, comes and tells the citizens that instead of 8 euros, it could have gone down 20 euros when in January 2017 José López assured that the reduction he would propose would be about 6 euros (10 euros). % of average), to then say that maybe it could reach 9 euros ... but that figure has doubled magically since it is again in the opposition, "Manuel Padín has warned that he asks" Why did not MC propose any of Those reductions in two and a half years? Why did not you create a Commission of Inquiry, why did you resolve the resources when you could? Why did not you do anything? "
"The reading that we are doing from Citizens is that the MC spokesman must have felt really bad that the mayor of Cartagena achieved a lower than he intended and in a short time," said the spokesman, "but that attitude would not be to look for the citizens, but to look at the navel. "
The spokesman of the orange training has ensured that what his group wants "is that the infrastructures of the sanitation and purification network work, improve the water service, we want to control the management of Hidrogea up to the millimeter, we want them to pay the consequences if there is a judicial sentence against them, we want and we have managed to lower the price in the receipt of water to Cartagena, what we want, ultimately, is a local government that works and offers tangible solutions, and not play electorally with each thing to get dirty and that there is no governance or stability in this City Council. "
Cs responds to Pilar Marcos:
On the occasion of what the spokesperson of CTSSP-Podemos said today, "about the right of Cartagena joins to support Hidrogea, it seems very bad taste, it is absurd that they talk so much about defending the work of officials , now criticize a decision that has been based on the technical criteria offered by the secretary of the Plenary, is she the right of Cartagena? We are going to be more serious, and we are going to stop breaking and we are going to dedicate ourselves to building ", indicated the spokesman of Cs Cartagena.
Extension to Hidrogea
On the extension of 25 years to Hidrogea unanimously approved in the Plenary of 2003, Manuel Padín has indicated that "few things I would like more at this time to ask to be canceled, because it seems excessive and contrary to our interests, but my duty and my obligation as a councilor is to follow the recommendations of the municipal legal and economic services and wait until there is a ruling to do so, otherwise we will be exposing everyone's money to millions of claims (at least 20 million euros), and I can not contribute to the fact that the people of Cartagena are in debt to the eyebrows because of the populist and demagogic pressure of MC and Podemos ".
"If they want to put an irresponsible tactic behind the general interest that they do, I'm not willing to do it, I'll only demand the cancellation when I have the guarantee that the municipal coffers are not at risk."
On the other hand, Manuel Padín recalled that the exconcejales of the PP Juan Agüera (who has been president of the Neighborhood Board of Perín by MC, and Enrique Pérez (today secretary of the Municipal Group of MC), voted in favor of the extension of the 25 years to Hidrogea in the famous Plenary of November 2003, "that Citizen Movement welcome politicians who voted in favor of the extension to Hidrogea seems to me as not very hypocritical, incoherent and contradictory."
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena