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The proposed municipal budget for 2015 has passed today the process of initial approval in the House that took place along all morning at the Palace Hall, with the votes for the popular group and against the opposition, which has seen its amendments were rejected.

Specifically, the amendment to the whole, presented at IU-Green;

a partial amendment tabled by the three groups, Citizen, PSOE and IU-Green Movement;

and a group of eight partial amendments IU-Greens.

Responsible for opening the discussion of budgets has been the Councillor of Finance, Fatima Suanzes, who has reiterated that the document that brought the city was similar to last year, to 190.8 million euros, balanced budget, in the rates decline, taxes are frozen, investments are maintained and increased social spending, enabling all sanitation of the municipal coffers.

These arguments have not convinced the opposition groups.

The spokesman of the mixed-group Citizens Movement, José López, has accused the government team want to deceive the public with budgets that will involve further tightened the belt, while the spokesman for IU-Greens, Jaime Cayetano Molto, has put into question the prioridadeds government team with this budget, priority, far from what we think should be the objectives of this document is to achieve prespuestario balance and debt reduction, all due to wastage that have been conducted in recent years.

And both groups, along with the PSOE, the voice of his council, Julio Nieto, have highlighted what they considered mismanagement, such as investments in works such as the Auditorium or the Sports Palace, or the debt of the company Casco Antiguo.

A latter answered the Councillor of Finance announced that the two loans having the municipal company with a bank will refinance into one, which half will reduce the interest rate and will mean 3.8 million euros savings in the first year alone.

Thus, both society and the council will benefit, since it can deal with the debt in a way better off.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena