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MC Cartagena has rejected this morning, by means of an amendment to the whole, the 2019 Budget presented by the local government of PP, Cs and transfugas since, as the mayor of the Cartagenerist formation, Isabel García, has pointed out, "it is not the budget that Cartagena needs, although it is a true reflection of the Government that presents it ".

During the debate of the budget, which took place in the ordinary session of the Plenary of the month of October, Garcia has reported that the budget contains "the incompetence of Castejón, the 'good work' of the PP, which in just four months has mortgaged the City Hall in 10 million euros, along with the principles of Citizens (if I get nothing with them, I have others that will give me a better result) ".

Among the general lines of the budget, he has criticized that "they reflect a new and exorbitant increase in the personnel chapter, lower investments and ignore the commitments acquired in recent years, such as the MC amendments to the 2018 accounts."

The municipal workforce decreases but the expenditure on personnel increases

The Councilor of MC has revealed that personnel spending "has increased by 7,659,179 euros, 10.83% compared to 2018", although this "has not translated into a larger municipal workforce, every time see more shrinkage due to retirement. "

In contrast to this, it has been highlighted that "MC Cartagena has always worked for the incorporation of personnel to reinforce services, as well as for labor consolidation, attending to the real needs of the workforce, maintaining the budget balance and, above all , responding to the general interest and not to partisan interests. "

On the contrary, it has denounced that the Government has "in a drawer the Relationship of Jobs that we promoted" and continues "with the decrees of Temporary Attribution of Functions, although many of them have already exceeded two years and are irregular, to so you can buy wills ".

More current expenditure without improvements in municipal services and infrastructure

Isabel García has continued to rework the 2019 budget by noting that "the increase in 5,378,214 euros in current expenses does not translate into improved services and infrastructure of the municipality."

Thus, he added that "items for conservation and maintenance fall short. This abandonment draws an older and neglected municipality every time."

An example of this "is the maintenance of free spaces" which results in "a great forgetfulness of the budget, decreases the item destined to the maintenance of urban furniture such as children's games massively installed by the Neighborhood Boards, with the approval of the Torralba and presenting a pitiful state".

World Heritage but less investment in heritage and tourism

Likewise, it has revealed the paradox that "they announce with hype and saucer that they want Cartagena to be a World Heritage Site, while the budget for the Archaeological Heritage is lowered by 100,000 euros, as well as the expenditure destined for tourism promotion."

Commerce, Equality or neighborhood boards, among the forgetfulness of 'La Trinca'

The Councilor Cartagena has explained some of the deficiencies of the municipal budgets, for example, in terms of trade that also "does not seem to be a priority, lowering the game by more than 125,000 euros and forgetting the Proximity Trade Boost Plan, claimed by MC when attending the historical demands of the sector ".

Likewise, the budget for the Department of Equality decreases by more than 100,000 euros, indicating that "we are missing active prevention policies and re-education work with gender abusers."

On investments in neighborhood meetings in which "some fall by around 50%, we can qualify 2019 as a lost year due to the incompetence of Ana Belén Castejón, who did not approve the budget in time and form, and the PP, for not constituting the neighborhood meetings after the elections ", not including any departure for" the district councilors, announced by Diego Ortega and who have remained in a mere headline ".

In Sports, whose budget is reduced by more than 500,000 euros, he has regretted that they have forgotten to "include the announced 'Plan Arroyo' to improve sports facilities, as well as the games for the artificial turf football fields of Molinos Marfagones and Barriada San Cristóbal, promised by Castejón before the elections and that they were going to undertake with the pyrrhic surplus of 2018 ".

A budget resulting from the Pact of Shame

In short, he has asserted that they are budgets "the result of his Pact of Shame, signed against Cartagena by PP, C's and six transfugal councilors, a pact signed by the losers in the last elections to meet their political ambitions, not good and the progress of the municipality of Cartagena, "congratulating himself on the fact that" more and more people realize that they are the same face of the same coin and are not afraid to express it aloud and at the polls. "

"MC will not be complicit in a budget that bets on debt as a way to cover its inefficiency and shamelessness"

During his subsequent intervention, García has continued to regret that the PP returns to indebt the City Council, its general rule of action in the last 20 years, "which led us to the intervention by the Ministry of Finance in 2012", which had to be remedied by MC "reducing the debt by about 80 million during our government responsibilities to raise it early."

After the good management of MC, and the subsequent chaotic effect of Castejón, now it is the turn of a PP that "has only needed 4 months to miss 10 million euros," qualifying as a "shameless to blame for the purposes of the DANA of its budgetary oversight. "

Garcia has concluded by ensuring that "the budget you bring us today is not the budget that Cartagena needs, just as you are not the government that needs Cartagena," so "MC will not be complicit in a budget that bets on debt as a way to cover its inefficiency and shamelessness. Because of responsibility, and because we take the City Council out of the economic embargo that the PP took us to, we refuse to approve a project that will impoverish us and that we will inherit when citizens throw them out of the Government. "

The ordinances that Cartagena does not need: "Cartagena will pay a more expensive IBI in 2020"

Regarding the vote for the modification of the ordinances of taxes and municipal taxes for the year 2020, prior to the vote, the deputy spokesman of the Municipal Group, Jesús Giménez, has requested its withdrawal from the agenda by not complying with the procedure by not providing the reports or the proposal in the Finance Commission last Monday, according to art.

47.1e of Law 39/2015, of October 1, of the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations.

Given the refusal of the Government that has kept this matter on the agenda, Giménez has advanced that the Cartagena formation reserves the right to initiate legal proceedings in the face of the violation of the rights of the mayor of MC.

Along these lines, Isabel García said that "we could not vote in favor of a non-existent proposal and whose content and reports we did not know."

On the other hand, the mayor of MC has indicated that Castejón has needed a year "to bring to this Plenary the bonuses announced in October 2018 for housing rehabilitation in depressed neighborhoods and Historic District", although she has indicated "less time has been needed for eliminate the additional provision introduced by MC in the IBI to automatically avoid the tax increase in the face of hypothetical cadastral reviews ", so that the Cartagena" in 2020, in addition to paying the 'La Trinca' loans, will pay a more expensive IBI. "

In short, "some ordinances, which, like its budget, are not what Cartagena needs, do not focus on sustainability and concern for the environment, for promoting economic well-being, as well as the solidarity and quality of life of citizens, or for the impulse to economic growth and employment ", recalling García to conclude that MC presented in August a battery of proposals that contemplated" the reduction of taxes and fees, gradually lowering, even eliminating, all related to new openings businesses ", rejected by Esperanza Nieto on the grounds that they would not pick up" the MC Government Program but would do so from their government program ", making it clear that" they have none. "

Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena