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The councilors of this formation, Pedro Sosa and Gloria Martín, have explained that almost 400,000 of the 700,000 euros approved in two credit modifications to implement these grants will not be used for this purpose, so they have demanded that this amount be reinvested in special measures to reinforce security in the return to educational centers The councilors of Izquierda Unida-Verdes, Pedro Sosa and Gloria Martín, have denounced that, almost four months after the Plenary of the City Council of Lorca approved the subsidies to self-employed and micro-businesses affected by the COVID-19 crisis, the beneficiaries "still they haven't seen a penny.
" This proposal was a contribution from IU-Verdes to the extraordinary monographic plenary session on the coronavirus held on May 5, which, in the words of Sosa, "has only served so that the municipal government of PSOE and C's hangs the medal in successive wheels of press while it has been unable to get money to those who need it so much.
" The IU-Verdes spokesman explained that the calls they receive from freelancers complaining that they have not received aid "are constant" and regretted that "at this rate they will receive it at Christmas as if it were the Christmas bonus." "This is what happens when the priority is self-promotion instead of sitting down to work to expedite aid that already had to be available to those affected," he denounced. Sosa and Martín have criticized the slowness of the municipal government team in putting into effect the aid plan for the self-employed and micro-businesses.
Despite the fact that IU provided the bases approved by other municipalities that had already launched the measure, such as that of Zamora, where this formation governs, the Local Government Board did not approve the call until May 26. To release funds for the application of this measure, on May 25 the Plenary approved, with the votes in favor of IU, PSOE and Cs and the abstention of the PP and Vox, a credit modification worth half a million euros. As of June 22, the day the deadline closed, 977 applications had been submitted by companies and freelancers.
In other words, assuming that all of them were approved and that all of them would receive the maximum amount of aid (€ 500), it would be necessary to invest 488,500 euros. However, at that time the exact number of applications submitted was not made public by the municipal government team that on July 27 took another credit modification proposal to the Plenary to release another 200,000 euros, in theory, "to cover all the aid granted when they knew it was not necessary.
" In this sense, Gloria Martín has shown her surprise because now, when light has finally been shed on the data, "it turns out that 347 applications were excluded for various reasons and, of the 428 accepted, 391 correspond to the aid of 500 euros , and 37 with that of 300 euros, which makes a total of 206,600 euros ".
That is, assuming that the 202 incomplete and for which a correction period has now been opened are finally approved, and that all of them correspond to the maximum aid, the investment that the city council will need will be 307,600 euros. For this reason, Martín has asked for explanations about the 392,400 euros that remain from the amount of 700,000 "that they made us approve in plenary, deceived by a total lack of transparency." "Why do they make us approve another 200,000 euros when they knew with the initial 500,000 that it was enough"? The IU mayor wondered.
For this reason, he has urged the municipal government team to "reinvest this amount in special measures to reinforce security when returning to educational centers." "They used our votes to free those games and now we want to be able to decide what to do with the remainder, because we do not trust what they have in mind to do with that money and because we are tired of being teased," he concluded.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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