Last Wednesday, the mayor of Cartagena, three months late, handed over to the Municipal Groups of the opposition the draft of the General Budget for the current fiscal year.
The spokesman of MC Cartagena, José López, already said "the impossibility of supporting a project as close to clientelism as away from management."
After a study of the same, the deputy speaker of the training Cartagena, Isabel Garcia, has listed the reasons that support the decision of his group, beginning with "the extremely optimistic assessment regarding the income that the City Council will receive for the Building Tax, installations and works, the weak base on which the Government constructs an investment promise that it will be very difficult to fulfill ".
Isabel García regretted that "to the public scene of Cartagena return the old practices installed in the municipal offices of the Popular Party Inflate the amount of budget, utopian promises in investments and pay the owner who agrees to deceive the citizen."
In relation to this fact, the deputy spokesperson has revealed "the increase of the Mayor's Office of 230,000 euros in media advertising." Acting by imitation, similar to the Barreiro Punic, the socialist mayor neglects the neighborhood concerns to ensure a photo and a fallacious text that hides its gross limitations ".
Clientelism, lack of solidarity and paralysis
García has commented on the "masterful" lines of a budget "poorly distributed, unsupportive and focused on political clientelism, while neglecting what really affects the neighbors, for example, cutting maintenance programs."
"Just to cite some examples, citizens can understand the rough budget simulation that Castejón tries to squeeze the Cartagena," said the mayor of MC.
"The incapacity of the mayor reaches insurmountable levels when contemplating the salary of a team of Government composed of eleven councilors, and not the six that currently compose it after consummating the breach of the pact."
Other aspects exposed by García allude "to the remarkable increase in RED hours, instead of optimizing services with the generation of employment, and also the abandonment of maintenance programs, drawing an old and neglected municipality. a drawer our proposal to increase the amounts destined to the conservation and maintenance of the municipality, reducing the destined to it in 2017 ", has argued.
Negative to the Neighborhood Plan.
Slamming of culture and youth initiatives
"Their oblivion extends to the Neighborhood Plan, as well as initiatives such as the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Cartagena, which does not deserve the institutional support of Castejón." Other omissions are the refusal to adapt the dependencies of Contentpolis, in addition to giving back to the businessmen of Los Camachos and to the taxi drivers, ignoring the plan of reconversion of the sector in which we were working ", has related Isabel García.
The deputy spokesperson of MC has called attention to other decisions "such as the reduction of budget for the Department of Transparency, which is consistent with its opaque forms." Equally reprehensible is the restriction in the Environment area, forgetting about the reforestations that we promote.Water, unfortunately, they project it for other purposes ".
The leader of the Cartagena training has recalled that "the only projects that will be realities are those that we have finished, those related to the ISA Plan and the Participatory Budgets." Now, without the greatest objection, they try to appropriate them, recognizing what has always been a If the City Council is not more paralyzed than it already is, it is thanks to the work of MC, which is now inherited by this Executive, saving them the few pieces of furniture they have left. "
The council has ended adding that "our group, for responsibility with the Cartagena, can not support this budget, although we will work to present the necessary amendments that plug the holes caused by the Government's clumsiness."
Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena