Jose Garcia Murcia, spokesman councilor and candidate for mayor of IU-Green has explained his group's proposals on citizen participation, with the aim of boosting this fundamental issue to a municipality.
Thus, he said that citizens and political institutions must come together, and that the local government has the duty to constantly hear the voice of the neighbors and must promote projects and activities undertaken by the council are perfectly in tune with citizens so that it has a voice.
The mayoral candidate said that the purpose of government action is to develop a Comprehensive Plan for Citizen Participation, priority in the electoral program of IU-Greens, to make visible the opinion neighborhood.
Among the methods of participation to the plan, García Murcia has highlighted firstly, the need to create new rules for public participation, as adopted on April 14, 2011, it has not even started, and no It served.
Thus, IU-Green says bet on the creation of sectoral councils of youth, sports, culture, and women, among others, to have real capacity of proposal and decision.
Garcia Murcia has underlined its intention to repeal the current regulation of neighborhood councils and districts, noting that in the spring of 2016 elections would be made to democratically elect representatives to the neighborhood and the village headman together.
Similarly, from IU-Greens argue that want to start another council, the Advisory Council of Cultural Heritage.
The council has said that although there have been performances in the historical district, it must make a firm decision for a comprehensive action plan in the historical district, so it is essential to move forward in the Cultual Heritage Advisory Council
Garcia Murcia has emerged as another important line in citizen participation stroke recovery, neighborhood action and community life of neighborhoods and districts.
Finally, the alcaldable by IU-Green has revealed that will be participatory and neighborhood to neighborhood assemblies where participate neighborhood associations and private individuals who do not belong to any association, and as an innovative issue for Lorca has proposed that henceforth citizens, neighborhood associations, neighborhood assemblies, etc., may participate in full through popular initiative plenary.
This will, in his view, a major innovation in the way to municipal policy and new impetus to citizen participation, because so far the proposals in full is made only by the political groups.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca