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- The spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, said that "we would have liked us to get the budget draft much earlier, we are talking about the most important document to be approved in a City Council, the backbone of the work of A government team throughout the year, which limits, describes, makes possible and marks the municipal management and our short-term future "

- Citizens have warned about the difficulty of overlapping the approval of the 2017 Municipal Budget, with the result of the Participative Budgets (which represent 50% of the budgetary expenditure of 2017), "what we can not understand is that the Counting budgets and submitting amendments without knowing to what projects the Participants' money will be allocated.

The local government has provided the Municipal Group of Citizens draft the Municipal Budgets 2017 Cartagena.

Citizen spokesman Manuel Padín said that "we would have liked us to get this draft much earlier, we are talking about the most important document that must be approved in a City Council, the backbone of the work of a government team at that time. Throughout the year, which limits, describes, makes possible and marks the municipal management and our short-term future, for that reason the importance of having it with sufficient time to value it and design the contributions of the opposition political groups with the Only goal of achieving the best possible budget for the city. "

According to the leader of the orange formation, "despite the adjustments of the times, we understand that a step has been taken, last year the local government provided the draft budgets less than 48 hours before the plenary where they were to be approved, Making its valuation impossible and the drafting of realistic amendments where all numbers fit in. "

The local Citizens' spokesman has also warned of the difficulty of overlapping the approval of the 2017 Municipal Budget, with the result of the Participatory Budgets (which represent 50% of the budget expenditure of 2017), "which we can not understand Is to start the countdown of budgets and the presentation of amendments without knowing what projects the money will be allocated to the Participants. It places us in a very difficult situation for all political formations, because we do not know if our contributions will coincide with the projects Elected by vote ".

Manuel Padín says that "the only thing we know today is that the technicians of the City Council should study and validate the 2,332 citizen proposals until December 15, and that from there should be published the final list and start the voting process "While this is happening we are going to force everyone to work in unnecessary conditions of uncertainty and indetermination."

The spokesman recalled that "we said it in its day, and we do it again today, the Participative Budgets is an idea that we support, and we hope that it develops more and better in the future, but has worked with great haste and now we can Pay the consequences ".

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena