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Given the troubling economic situation which is the city of Cartagena, from SPCT we have developed a constituency where the austerity program, optimum resource management, transparency and participation are the cornerstones and cross the whole of measures available to the citizens of Cartagena.

These austerity measures, good governance, transparency and participation are contained in Chapter I of our program and are in today we bring to the attention of all citizens.

In the coming weeks we will be raising awareness of the contents of other chapters.

We also want to emphasize that we have dedicated a special chapter in our program to address historical grievances of Cartagena and measures to preserve our identity, as this program, in addition to specific measures, has a central basis is to defend Cartagena above partisan ideologies.

The biprovincialidad, the defense of the Tajo-Segura, rehabilitation of the Cathedral or the promotion of our identity are unavoidable commitments that are part of our election manifesto.

Among the austerity measures and transparency we wish to highlight:

The commitment to make a independent Economic Audit in the first three months of the legislature to determine the starting position within the City.

We are committed to the implementation of a Municipal Budget Office reports directly to Mayor, consisting of municipal officials and other powers will start in on-line budget that will allow citizens to view real-time financial situation of City Hall.

That office will be required to submit quarterly to the full, a report on the real situation of the accounts.

In the same vein, we are committed to improving the efficiency of public spending, and this bet by the open tender procedure in most municipal public works contracts, instead of the negotiated procedure is the use the government team also usually limit the free competition of firms, is ineffective because it does not get savings for municipal coffers.

Also, we will implement what we call the Book On-Line creditor intends to publish the debts with suppliers who have the council, the antiquity of the same, and the form and payment deadline, with the aim of improving transparency.

The implementation of an ambitious savings plan that addresses topics like

Salary reduction for all council members up to 20%

The total elimination of all the official cars, except the 1 st municipal authority

The reduction in 75% of all positions of trust.

The 50% reduction in allocations to local groups.

The elimination of all General Managers and Coordinators General.

The reduction of advertising items, protocol, and propaganda to the minimum required.

the removal of the Old Society SA, which accumulates a budget gap to be determined.

Citizen participation and approach to citizens of the City Council will be one of the cornerstones of the electoral program.

Thus, we propose:

The holding of town meetings in the evenings so they can attend a greater number of citizens.

That a schedule, some of the plenary sessions are held in districts and councils of Cartagena.

The town's social groups to bring before the full City motions and questions.

That the Mayor and Councillors have a flexible but mandatory for citizens to personally receive

We are committed to answering the requests of citizens within a maximum of 1 month and not as the case now where the most common procedure is the administrative silence.

Repeal Regulation of Citizen Participation, to reach consensus with the federations of social groups in Cartagena.

And within these regulations propose a structural reform of the current territorial Neighborhood, introducing the third ballot as a way of choosing the components of these figures decentralization.

We are committed to provide fast, how much information required by opposition groups, thereby improving the control of the same on the municipal government.

Finally remove the Council of Mayors to integrate if they wish, the Social Council of the City will implement a participatory budgeting model for the management of public money.

Source: SPCT