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In the document presented by the PP, only one item appears for expenses of neighborhood meetings or districts of 40,000 euros, barely 0.05% of what is legally established by the Organic Regulation, according to the councilor of this formation, Gloria Martín

The councilor of IU-Greens of Lorca, Gloria Martín, today announced that their training will lodge an administrative contentious appeal against the City of Lorca if the local government team of the PP approves the Municipal Budget of 2017 without contemplating the 2% that should be Managed by the districts of the locality.

Martín recalled that Article 4 of the Organic Regulation of the Districts of the Municipality of Lorca, finally approved in plenary session of the City Council on September 29, 2014, sets that percentage as the minimum of the municipal budget to be managed by said territorial entities.

Given that, for 2017, the budget amounts to 73,697,595 euros, the amount that should be assigned to these should be 1,473,951.9 euros. However, in the document presented by the municipal government team of the PP, only There is an item for expenses of neighborhood meetings or districts of 40,000 euros, that is, only 0.05% of what is legally established by the Organic Regulation.

Only in "publicity and propaganda" will the consistory spend almost seven times more (275,700 euros).

Martín has reported that there is a recent legal precedent, through an unappealable ruling from the Administrative Litigation Room of the Superior Court of Justice of the Region, which requires the municipality of Murcia to comply with the direct percentage that manage the different districts of This municipality.

In that case, the Corporation that chairs Miguel Ángel Cámara allocated only 3.58% of the municipal budget to the direct management of the towns, instead of the 8% that establishes its Regulation of Citizen Participation.

Precisely this judicial ruling will be the basis on which IU-Greens will argue your appeal.

Martín recalled that his training has been especially critical with the approval of the current Organic Regulation of the Districts of the Municipality, especially regarding the election of the representatives of the neighbors in the Juntas de Barrio and Pedanías.

The legislation approved by the PP provides that these are chosen by extrapolation of the data obtained in the municipal elections and not by direct election of the voters by means of a "third ballot box," as IU argues.

However, Martín recalled that, once approved, the law is "obligatory for all".

For this reason, it has demanded that the local government team "respect the norms of the democratic game", destine to the districts 2% of the established municipal budget and proceed with the creation of the Juntas de Barrio or Pedanía to begin to manage said game .

"This can not be the whiting that is biting its tail: there are no neighborhood Boards and pedanias because they have no budget items, and there are no budget items because there are no Boards.

The districts are created and the regulation requires that they be allocated to them 2% of the municipal budget, "he has demanded.

For the mayor of IU-Greens this would mean the achievement of a historical claim supported by their training, which claims that part of the public resources can be managed, directly, by neighbors and neighbors.

This would lead to a clear breakthrough in terms of citizen participation and would encourage municipal deconcentration, as each of the six districts in Lorca could decide the fate of the approximately 245,000 euros each.

"In politics, coherence is essential," said Martín, who added that the mayor, Francisco Jódar, "can not say that he is committed to the correction of territorial imbalances and interests of the various neighborhoods and districts of the municipality for later Steal their legitimate right to manage part of the municipal budget. "

IU-Greens will develop in the coming weeks an informative campaign directed to the neighborhood associations of all the municipal term to make them participate of this question.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca