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A popular local group's proposal, shall be applied immediately, the decrease of 3 percent in the salaries of councilors released and managers, 8 percent in the diets of non-attendance of the mayor released and waiver her full compensation for attending

The full City, began its regular meeting today approved unanimously by all the groups a motion proposed by the PP, namely the implementation of austerity measures to the members of the corporation and senior officials in the same way as is being done with municipal officials.

Thus, these measures, which will be effective as of August, including the removal of the Christmas bonus to the councilors, apply a drop of 3% in the salaries of members of the municipal corporation released and lowered positions and 8% in the diets of councilors not released.

In addition, the mayor adds to these initiatives, which are adopted with immediate effect, denying he had been receiving compensation for their attendance at the plenary sessions.

The popular group's spokesman, Francisco Espejo, noted in this connection that these accountability measures will save € 170,000 in the current year, also announcing that in the same vein, when preparing the budget for 2013, will apply 20% reduction in allocations to local political groups.

For the rest of motions, requests and questions included in the agenda , whose themes have agreed PSOE and IU, such as medical co-payment, the modernization of local government or management of the Auditorium and Congress Centre, have been voted not urgent.

Regarding the latter, the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, recalled that the cost of the auditorium is lower than other similar cities in which a building is constructed of these features, such as Vigo or Vitoria, while calling the opposition to stop demonizing the Batel and begin to see it as a future investment, more than 10,000 people have participated in meetings in the Auditorium and another 2,000 are expected to participate in three meetings until the end of the year, therefore I do not think any need for Monitoring and Control Commission, this work and make the municipal technicians.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena