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The councilor for this training, Gloria Martín, explained that last year, 61% of contracts signed between City Council and companies for a total amount of 4.8 million euros were tendered for this procedure, a practice linked to corruption and Which impedes transparency in the management of public money

The councilor of the United Left-Greens, Gloria Martín, today denounced the "abusive use" that the municipal government team of PP makes the formula of the procedure negotiated without advertising to award public contracts in Lorca.

This obstructs transparency, does not guarantee the best price or the best service, and allows "chopping the contracts" to make awards to companies related to the government of the day "without any control", as has been happening in various corruption schemes , Explained the mayor.

Last year, 61% of the contracts signed between City Council and companies for a total amount of 4.8 million euros were tendered for this procedure, according to data from the transparency portal of the Consistory itself.

"We have detected service contracts that were previously awarded through an open procedure and now appear split allowing the negotiated allotment and without advertising that, incidentally, falls on companies related to the PP," said the mayor.

In the case of the works, the government team of the PP has awarded in this way some worth more than 700,000 euros.

To the thread, Martín demands to know how many of these works have been object after modified and by what quantities.

Therefore, Izquierda United-Greens propose to limit the use of contracts negotiated without advertising for "exceptional and justified" uses.

Martín said that "advertising in contracts is the best guarantee that companies will be awarded the best prices, services and results."

In addition, it allows to involve the opposition in the processes, "would reduce any suspicion on favory dealings would serve to know the criteria and priorities of the City in terms of hiring," he explained.

"Citizenship requires transparency and commitment of the administrations with an efficient management of the public coffers, which is incompatible with the opaque practices of the PP in Lorca," Martín said.

At present, any public contract whose amount oscillates between 18,000 and 100,000 euros can be granted through the negotiated process without advertising.

If it is works, the amounts go back to a fork between 50,000 and 1 million euros.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca