"Own Lewis Carroll (author of 'Alice in Wonderland')".
With these words has begun his speech the spokesman of the municipal group MC Cartagena, José López, who has spoken after the celebration of a meeting sponsored by the Mayor against the current meeting yesterday by opposition groups concerned about moving forward with the Budget General of the City Council for 2018.
Going into the content of the appointment, Lopez has reported that they had been given "a calendar with dates that we already knew".
Supported by this excuse, the leader of the Cartagena training has stressed that "we try to blur other 'offers', such as negotiating a 'no budget.' We can not amend or negotiate about something that is not a budget. of the budget, which must have been approved by the Governing Board, then the groups work on it and present their amendments, which can be approved in the Finance Committee or in the Plenary, we do not want to receive a document that is not valid, "José has argued. López, shelling the logical timing of the procedure.
At this point, he has alluded to the accusation of "lack of negotiating capacity of the opposition groups", recalling the work of MC Cartagena and the councilor of Finance, Isabel García, in search of the necessary consensus with the opposition groups to specify the budgets of 2016 and 2017. Attitude that has not been seconded on this occasion by the first mayor.
As a novelty, José López has called attention to the 'occurrence' of Castejón not see necessary approval of the budgets of autonomous bodies, as has happened in past years.
A change that has coincided with the arrival of the new Municipal Intervention.
The MC spokesman has asked the Mayor to provide them with a document "to be able to amend, if they do not give it to us, we will present a text that will amend the 'pantomime' of the budget that has not yet been presented to us. The opposition has made them, MC is interested in not having to extend budgets and that Cartagena has one in 2018, "he continued.
In relation to the alleged lack of execution during 2017, shortly, "it will be possible to see in which months more was executed and in which months less was done, and the days in which a large number of projects could not be completed because someone gave vacations to the director of the Municipal Government Office without thinking of a substitute, so during that time, the Consistory, for the first time in its history, was left without a signature. "
Later, José López explained that, in the current situation, "the budgets must be sponsored by the officials, who do an exemplary job." Before the Government's agreement was broken, they had done it almost to the totality, except Mayor's Office and Decentralization (PSOE), which did not deliver their contributions ".
"This work can be the framework on which to start working, great things can not be touched," he reasoned, underlining the suitability of betting on the creation of new jobs as opposed to the socialist will to increase wages.
López has asked about the reasons that have led the Mayor's Office to forget commitments in its budget such as the Vía Verde.
"There is no technical criterion," lamented the MC representative.
"It is very easy to be able to understand each other in the seven or eight million that we will share, forgetting about egos and seeking consensus, it will be easy to do, we do not have more outlets," he predicted.
Dialogue for the future of Cartagena
Regarding the agreements with the rest of the opposition groups, Lopez understands that "it will be easy" to achieve it. "The mayor of Cartagena has lamented that Castejón" smile and do not work ", and ask the other parties to" do their job " .
On the conversations held with other opposition groups, he said that "the needs of Cartagena make us have to agree, for the future of Cartagena."
José López has influenced "the paralysis" that has led to the arrival in the town hall of Ana Belén Castejón.
"They are more photos than work," he concluded.
Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena