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United Left-Greens and Socialists for Cartagena have presented today the agreement reached by both bands, and ratified by the local assemblies thereof, for which they will attend the upcoming municipal elections in a bid to drive aims are become a real alternative government in the town to end 20 years of neoliberal policies of the PP which resulted in cuts in social rights, high unemployment, speculation, corruption, and megalomaniac municipal debt only to works made greater glory of the leaders of that party, among many other problems after the two decades of the Popular Party government facing the municipality.

The electoral agreement has its antecedent in the program agreement previously reached by both formations, represents the work of two delegations and was also approved at the time by the local assemblies of IU-Greens and Socialists for Cartagena.

This agreement, as indicated Cayetano and Juan Luis Jaime Martínez (local coordinator of IU-Greens and Socialist Secretary General for Cartagena respectively) in the press conference is open to other political forces and social movements working in the town in different policy areas and have a proven track record.

From now offer contacts for integration into such an agreement will begin, make proposals and offer their possible integration in the application to form a single large force left able to win elections in Cartagena.

The need for a confluence of forces left, as both leaders have expressed, is now much more evident after the Popular Party desperate attempt to change the electoral system in relation to municipalities to keep the mayors who know that they will lose in the next municipal election after the debacle of the last European elections.

A reform that aims to keep their mayors in power even with much lower support of the citizenry.

The agreement of the United Left-Greens and Socialists for Cartagena has resulted in the second of those formations will contribute one third of the members of the list and alternate prescriptive going SPCT candidates in three sections from the third candidate.

This means that its built in list members occupy positions 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24 and 27 as well as the third alternate.

These candidates as Cayetano recalled Jaime and Juan Luis Martínez, shall be elected according to the bylaws of each of the parties, which include open and participatory, transparent and advanced formulas.

Source: IU-verdes Cartagena