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This morning, the three municipal opposition groups in the city of Cartagena (PSOE, IU-Greens and Citizens' Movement), have offered a joint press conference where they showed their desire to join forces against "rigging," that aims to give the Popular Party reforming the Electoral Act and have announced that each of them presented to Full Council a motion offering outright rejection to change election of mayors, to understand that you can not propose changes to both draft without political agreement and a few months municipal elections.

Ana Belén Castejón, PSOE spokesman, expressed rejection of the Socialists intend to change the electoral law, in the election of mayors and the Autonomous Community with the intended increase in constituencies, saying that "can not propose such type of change without political agreement, without consensus of all forces. Unable to change the game a few months after the elections with an opportunistic and arrogant attitude. "

Castejón has compared what can happen to PP with this bill with what happened with regard to abortion, which has had to be withdrawn due to lack of support from the public, which has appealed to express their rejection also to the intentions of PP not hide anything but "the attempt to have an absolute majority with less than 40 percent of the votes."

Socialist spokesman pointed out that if the results of European recur in the next municipal and regional elections, the PP lost its absolute majority in the region and in Cartagena, which would not happen with the proposed reform, which would give him such Most the Constitution has been democratically expressed by citizens.

"The electoral law can not be at the mercy of the majority of one or the other," concluded Castejón Ana Belén.

The spokesman of the United Left-Greens, Jaime Moltó Cayetano, said that "the PP has been in a spiral of armor. Amid protests that have caused their cuts makes a law to criminalize protest and to the loss of support from People want to shield electorally trampling the Constitution, which establishes the political pluralism and the proportional electoral system. "

Jaime Moltó also alluded to additional councilors in the law that project wants to give the PP lists they get about 30 percent of the vote, which will mean that there will not have been councilors who voted for citizens.

Likewise, the PP used as a weapon to defend their proposals, the instability at its discretion assume governments formed by different political forces, which has been dismantled by Jaime Cayetano to demonstrate precisely municipalities are like absolute majority who lead the numerous episodes of corruption with notorious cases in our region.

Given all this, the IU-Greens spokesman expressed his confidence that all political forces except the PP and CiU, present constitutional challenges to the proposed law, while political forces if the United Left, van take the protest to the streets, informing citizens seeking to make the rigging the PP.

For his part, the Speaker of City (MC) Movement, Jose Lopez, stated that "what is undeniable is that in a time when corruption has been installed in the Taifa kingdoms that are being autonomous regions and municipalities will not be necessary here to remind them of its many merits to this, Mr. PP seek to reinstate the figure of the chief of the village, alleging reasons why governance "and that" from MC oppose frontally the PP change democracy, to become even more, municipalities and autonomous regions in instruments of their claims, in short to decide when to play, how, where and who will win the match, we strongly believe that voters should do ".

And Lopez has warned that "if the government insists on subverting democracy by a coup concealed or disguised electoral law, you know that this council and all who would follow him, will be defending in the streets, squares and where necessary our democracy, and if the government uses the monopoly of force with citizens, we warn that this time will need larger than those used by riot police to stop balls to the people. "

Source: IU-verdes Cartagena