The Spokesman of the PSOE in the City of Lorca, and General Secretary of the Lorca socialists, Diego José Mateos has made political balance in relation to the year that now ends, in the traditional Christmas breakfast that the Socialist Group offers to the media every year .
For Mateos culminates a year that, politically, has served to consolidate the Socialist Party and its project as the "only serious and viable alternative to the Popular Party at the head of the City of Lorca."
A year that the socialist leader values ​​"very positively" and ensures, is a "real impetus" to continue working on a project that, he maintains, "is Lorca, and for and for Lorca."
Mateos emphasized that with the work that the Socialist Party continues to carry out "we continue to fulfill each of the principles that my team and I set out to start this new stage of the PSOE in Lorca: to exercise a close, loyal and constructive opposition, to the height Of Lorca ".
In this sense, the socialist leader insists that his work of opposition is based on maintaining the balance between the tasks of control, demand and supervision of government action, and of course, the necessary contribution of progressive proposals, alternatives to management "Disoriented, devoid of ideas and harmed by internal disputes" that the Popular Party demonstrates.
The Spokesman of the PSOE has wanted to highlight some of the most important actions that he and his team have achieved through their work as opposition.
2017 will be the year in which, thanks to the PSOE, "the City of Lorca will start giving priority to the unemployed at risk of exclusion when contracting works and services."
A measure obtained thanks to the inclusion of social clauses in municipal contracting, proposed by the PSOE.
Throughout the year, the PSOE has stood out for promoting debates "necessary, crucial for the present and the future of the municipality".
Mateos has referred to two PSOE initiatives that forced the City of Lorca to open both the debate "with which to put light" and therefore, "improve the management of Aguas de Lorca", and also the necessary debate for Lay the foundations of the Historic Center revitalization project "to protect that it is the task and inescapable commitment of the next municipal corporations to work to restore social and economic life to this punished and abandoned area of ​​the city.
In this sense, remember that his party has pushed this year the Pact for the Recovery of the Historic Quarter.
In 2016 the PSOE has also managed to recover in a certain way the IMJUDE, eliminated by the PP in 2007. Recently, and at the initiative of the Lorca socialists, the Sectorial Council of Sports has been created, a body of participation, consultation and advice for The sports fabric of Lorca.
In terms of participation, and to get the City of Lorca to recover the proximity in its management, the PSOE has also been the impeller of the creation of the Complaints and Suggestions Commission.
Mateos recalled that during this year, the PSOE has focused part of its efforts on securing municipal support routes for the maintenance of sports clubs.
Their pressure served to obtain the payment of the municipal subsidies pending to the sports fabric of the city, and in addition, to start the commitment of a schedule in the payment of these aids "vital for the planning of these clubs".
In its line of protest and control in government action, the PSOE has also flagged the "control of the economic management of the PP in the City."
It emphasizes the tax proposal of a "progressive and ambitious" fiscal reform, that finally was rejected by the PP.
The demand for more transparency and monitoring to ensure the completion of major projects for Lorca, such as the execution of the Central Round, paralyzed for months, or the Auditorium, have also occupied the socialist agenda.
In terms of works and municipal contracting, the PSOE has marked the municipal political agenda, forcing the PP to explain, especially after the controversy unleashed between the government team and other opposition parties for the recent award of the works of Juan Carlos I. Some works on which, he takes advantage to insist "we will remain very vigilant, to avoid that the PP repeats errors of other works, since it is the main artery of Lorca".
In districts, the work of the PSOE has been "close and constant", a faithful reflection of the importance of each and every one of them for the socialists of Lorca.
All of this year's initiatives are summarized in the common strategy called for by Mateos "for the revitalization of the districts, especially the highlands, to combat depopulation and the shortage of opportunities."
The claim of aid for those affected by earthquakes, the monitoring of the state of the solidarity table, and the permanent memory of those affected by the floods have also continued to worry in the PSOE de Lorca.
They have also highlighted the socialists for serving as support to neighbors in neighborhoods that draw deficiencies after recent works.
In Health, the PSOE has led the health claims, especially dedicated to defend the users of health area III, in front of the alarming waiting lists and the dismantling of primary health care resources and the closure of San Diego Emergency.
The cuts in Education, and the demand for the third degree in the University Campus have also centered the socialists Lorca in 2016.
In culture, Diego José Mateos has assured that 2016 will also be remembered as the year in which he recovered the model of fair Day for the center of Lorca, thanks, he insists the "battery of initiatives raised by the PSOE in motions taken to the Full, where they were rejected by the PP, finally to be recognized and implemented by the government team. "
The support for the steps of Holy Week and the insistence for the payment of social aid for embroiderers, has also been a crucial issue in the claims of the PSOE.
To continue on this path, Mateos announces that "2017 will start as it finishes 2016".
In this sense, it announces the beginning of a new round of meetings with social, economic and business groups to continue building the project of Lorca with the project with which to soon return to Lorca the character of subregional capital and local reference lost during all this years".
Source: PSOE Lorca