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This morning, the councilor of MC Cartagena, María José Soler, has analyzed the measure materialized yesterday by the Local Government Board, chaired by Ana Belén Castejón, which determined the increase of the power of the councilors of Government to authorize expenses and hiring of works and services up to 18,000 euros plus VAT.

It should be remembered that, with this provision, the socialist mayor contravenes the decision promoted by the mayor of MC (José López), who in coordination with the councilors of Finance and Transparency;

Isabel García and María José Soler, limited this capacity to 6,000 euros, reducing the hiring capacity of the councilors without the need for a public tender.

Soler, the main responsible for the City Council has become a regional and state reference in promoting transparency and access to information from neighbors, has received the news "with sadness, as it is a remarkable step back in transparency and a great leap towards opacity and a return to the practices we have tried to banish over the last two and a half years ".

The mayor has reported that "in order to ensure transparency and public access to information, at the end of 2016 we implemented the telematic tender of minor and negotiated contracts, all advertising in the profile of the contractor, so that we expand the relative contractual activity to minor contracts on the institutional website. "

"In this way, we facilitated that offers could be made by employers in contracts for works, supplies and services, which had an amount of less than 6,000 euros plus VAT, while, although there was no obligation, my colleague Isabel García decided to open All the plications in the Table We went several steps beyond those required by the Transparency Law, a path that we are now backing down, "he argued.

The mayor has called attention to the scarce diffusion of the measure because, "contrary to the usual socialist practices, the news has been communicated in a very discreet, betraying its constant policy of 'postureo', photo album and empty messages A new attempt to conceal the citizenship that has gone wrong, "he reasoned.

Councilwoman MC Cartagena stressed that "in just two months, the Public Sector Contracts Law will limit this spending capacity to 15,000 euros in the case of smaller contracts." Therefore, the speed of approval can only be understood as a desperate attempt to distribute as much money as possible at this time, with clear electoral purposes, and perhaps leave satisfied those who will later act with gratitude, "he lamented.

Finally, María José Soler explained that this circumstance could mean that the Consistory lost its privileged status from the list of good practices of the Network of Local Entities for transparency, an entity that positively valued, last spring, the tender procedure of contracts Minors promoted by the former councilor of Finance, Isabel García.

Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena