Portal de Lorca

www.portaldelorca.com

• Home
• Business
• Hotels
• Restaurants
• News
• Advertisement

Worship Peñas, Councilman municipal group of IU-Green Lorca, highlighted the lack of information call for the permanent commissions established at the beginning of the legislature.

The mayor complained that some committees such as Rural Development, Social Policy, the Culture and Education, or the Tourist Promotion have not convened after 10 months of city government and others of the importance of Development and employment has only been done once.

Also, Penas said that since the mayor eliminate the municipal councils in 2010, bodies that promoted social involvement, there has been a lamentable decline in citizen participation in matters affecting the population, sample policy team government in which the decision of citizens account for very little.

From IU-Greens claim that, in the mistaken decision to make disappear PP municipal councils, the government team should take more seriously the constituted commissions, since now represent the channels of decision-making in key sectors.

Peñas has proposed to the mayor who also a new commission of cooperation and solidarity, which could be responsible for municipal activities in relation to official development aid and solidarity actions, citing the city of Murcia, which has to constitute a Municipal Council for Cooperation and Solidarity and which has allocated € 20,000 for humanitarian aid following the earthquake in Ecuador.

In this regard, Councilwoman recalled that historically the group of IU-Green has requested municipal budgets repeated economic items for the campaign called 0.7, consisting items and entrenched in many Spanish municipalities, not being the case in Lorca.

Similarly, Peñas has criticized the limited actions on development cooperation that have taken place in our town they have been made by Councilwoman social services almost personalized and depending on your generosity and not according to the municipal and subject to the law of subsidies as it should be budgets.

With regard to the procedures used by the council to convene public subsidies, Peñas has hinted that since disappeared years ago public calls for grants, NGOs, S local receive nominative subsidies arbitrariness Councilman turn and organizations whose scope development actions outside the municipality, in international arena, not even receive subsidies, but they do so by agreement with the council, also depending on the arbitrary "generosity" of the government team.

In this regard local NGOs, the mayor recalled that his political education began last November a round of contacts with local associations, having formalized meetings with more than 30 ONG'S and stressed that in virtually all there is a common problem: lack of funding prevents them from carrying out projects and activities that would result, no doubt, a benefit for the population.

So from IU-Green recalls that have reported on numerous occasions in various town meetings the council has not made publicly effective the call for public subsidies to cultural associations and sports since 2008, responding to a scheme weakening of associations Local in all areas, to prevent people from protesting in the street.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca