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Adoración Peñas, councilor of IU-Verdes Lorca, said today that one of the major issues that has and will have a decisive influence on the development of cities and their governance is undoubtedly the participation of their inhabitants in public affairs, And also in the proper politicians, noting that Lorca is not exactly an example in this sense, so it will be necessary to demand means and mechanisms of citizen intervention in decision-making.

Peñas has referred to two regulations in force approved by the City of Lorca to highlight on the one hand their lack of application, and on the other, the need for them to be reformed to contemplate aspects that in the current times IU-Lorca Green considers essential.

The first of these is the Regulation of Citizen Participation, approved in the plenary session of April 14, 2011 and in force since its publication in BORM on June 27, 2011. Referring to him, the mayor has lamented that they are about to develop many Of the aspects that it contemplates, partly due to the little public explanation and also to the lack of publicity that has given of the same one.

Sample of the lack of development of the same is that since its approval to date no "Popular Consultation" has been made, in the terms established in the Regulation, and that even with the many issues of interest that has led to the reconstruction of Lorca After earthquakes;

Rather the government team has been very brief in its explanations and undemocratic and participatory in decision-making in that area.

Among the deficits of application, it is also worth mentioning the non-use (not once) of article 22, on "Right to intervene once the Municipal Plenary".

Article that although brief and brief allows to order the mayor interventions at the request of citizens in a final point of prayers and questions for the audience.

Also in terms of its development, Peñas has asked that just as it has been done in sports by creating the Sectorial Council of the branch, also address the creation of Culture and Youth with the aim of boosting both sectors, possibility that contemplates Article 27 of the current regulation.

As regards the need for its modification to make it more useful to citizens, the mayor of IU-Greens has pointed to the difficulty of presenting a "Popular Initiative" in accordance with Article 13 of the Regulation, since it requires Which is signed by at least ten percent of the census of the population of Lorca, which amounts to no more than no less than approximately nine thousand signatures.

IU-Verdes proposes that the Popular Initiative can be presented with three percent of the census.

With respect to the other regulations in force referred to the principle of the note, that is to say the Regulation of Districts and Neighborhood Boards (in force since October 8, 2014), Peñas, in addition to reiterating the criticisms by the procedure that contemplates for the Election of the members of the Neighborhood Boards by extrapolation of the results of the municipal elections, and by the scarce budget allocated for the operation of the Districts (2% of the municipal budget);

And therefore to claim its modification, has said that the government team has been unable to implement it two years after its approval, and considers that regardless of the lack of resources and resources, both human and material, what happens is that the Municipal government suffers from political will to develop it and give voice to neighbors.

In this respect, it has insisted on the prevailing need that certain populations away from the city of Lorca, Almendricos or Zarzadilla de Totana among others, have to have a decentralized administrative and political management body, and in that sense has strongly claimed Revision of the regulation to make it more democratic and more applicable, especially in rural areas of large and grouped population.

Finally, Peñas has expressed the desirability of initiating processes of citizen participation around the preparation of municipal budgets.

It is what is called "participatory budgeting", and just as other cities and even CARM begin to use such methodology, Lorca should also address this process.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca