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The Liberal Party promises prevention and awareness campaigns but also a tough one, "we need a legal tool so that our Local Police can act on their own in situations where their intervention is currently limited", explained the spokesperson for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín
Citizens today announced its goal of "promoting" this year the drafting of an ordinance of social coexistence and prevention of vandalism and antisocial behavior, as it has been promoting for years, with a standard ordinance, the Spanish Federation of Municipalities ( FEMP).
"Cartagena does not have any legal tool that allows the Local Police to act ex officio in many situations for which its capacity is limited;
nor can we in many cases claim compensation for damages to the offenders or subsidiary to the parents, legal guardians or those who have legal custody if they are minors, the money has to leave all Cartagena, because nobody in the City Council has been concerned about establishing a municipal legal framework, "explained the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín.
"With the new ordinance, after assessing the damage, it will be easier for the offender to face his irresponsibility," says Manuel Padin, "it will not be a panacea, lack of education and values, but a tool in the fight against a unbridled vandalism that requires educational, preventive, and awareness raising campaigns, but also a strong hand with a strict sanctions regime in accordance with applicable general and sectorial legislation and without prejudice to the fact that the acts constitute criminal offenses ", argues the liberal spokesman.
According to the spokesperson of Cs, "we want to recover our streets, parks and squares as meeting spaces, so we will promote awareness campaigns in advance".
"We want to mobilize all the political groups, associations, platforms, and collectives for its drafting;
we do not want and must be the ordinance of a party, but the ordinance of all Cartagena, "says Padín.
220,000 euros in two years just to replace burned containers
The trigger for this initiative ..- recognizes Cs- were the attacks against the nativity scene of Santa Lucía in December 2018, "since then we have seen the increase in these episodes, in the municipal cemeteries, in archaeological sites, in protected buildings, in some political headquarters, against the defibrillation systems, "only the burning of containers in 2016 cost us 90,000 euros, and between 2017 and 2018, 300 burned containers and 220,000 euros in amount;
the most recent one took place a few days ago in the Virgen de la Caridad neighborhood, "Padín points out that despite the fact that the City Council has never provided the information," our Group estimates that the bill for vandalism is around one million euros per year. Cartagena. "
The lack of municipal legislation is something scandalous in Cartagena that few parties, if any, has denounced;
we have ordinances of the 80s or 90s, and there are many that can regulate innumerable areas of action and municipal competence;
that is something provoked by an indolent Popular Party that has left our normative package dying for years, something that neither PSOE nor MC have wanted or been able to correct and that has led to a significant increase in vandalism and incivilities in Cartagena ", says Manuel Padín .
Cs wants to enable an effective municipal response to a multitude of acts that suppose a detriment to the protection of public space as the backbone of social coexistence, civility, and the development of citizen freedom in its various manifestations, attacks against the dignity of the person, coercive acts, evacuation of physiological needs on public roads, acts of vandalism against street furniture, visual degradation of public space, unregulated street commerce, games related to gambling, activities and provision of services without authorization, among other conducts that They unbalance citizen coexistence, also in natural areas and green spaces, among others.
This ordinance - clarifies Cs - will include the updating of municipal regulations that regulate the consumption of alcoholic beverages and street cleaning "the first one is already 17 years old and the second one is from 1984 and obviously needs more than an in-depth revision", says Padín .
It will also establish the rest hours of the neighbors stipulating a general schedule for rest with which it can preserve the mental and physical health protection of the residents of Cartagena, and punish the offenders, "here it will be necessary to make it compatible with the ordinance of noise, pending approval ".
The regulations that Cs wants to implement will include all cases of cleaning in buildings and on public roads, as long as they are not provided for in the specific ordinance of abandoned lots whose drafting is being finalized and which was also promoted by Citizens through the ordinary Plenary, " try to gather in a single regulation what is not regulated, or if it is, it appears scattered and outdated in other regulations, which generates confusion ", concludes Padín.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena
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