"Even with a moratorium on the payment of debt, we have seen the per capita investment go down while expenses that do not affect the neighbors, such as protocol and representation, are increasing without control," says local spokesman José Luis Ros
Citizens have criticized the economic situation presented by the municipal government in the General Account of 2017, which has been approved in the extraordinary plenary session this morning: "According to the data of the Account we have had a surplus of 1.7 million when half of 2017 the Ministry of Finance postponed the payment of 2.4 million municipal debt.
Without this moratorium the City of San Pedro would have presented a deficit of 700,000 euros that would have forced to eliminate almost all the investments or would have produced a second intervention of the public accounts ".
In addition, the orange spokesman José Luis Ros, regretted that "we find on the other an excessive expense in items such as protocol, representation or telephony, which really do not impact on an improvement in the conditions for neighbors," said Ros.
The spokesman stressed that the PP government team "is unable to amend local accounts, and that despite having had a moratorium to pay 2.4 million euros of debt.
Not even with that 'megacommodin' have they been able to bring decent accounts that showed signs of economic recovery. "
In this sense, Citizens has been especially critical with the increase in spending on gratuities, which has gone from 99,000 euros to 165,000, which add up to 42,000 euros in unnecessary and dispensable protocol and representation expenses, "when the initial forecast was just 4,700.
What we see is that they have no problem in increasing these expenses, but in what affects the neighbors and services, they go to the cut and fall without any shame, "Ros added.
Finally, the orange spokesman harshly criticized both the delay in the payment of rickety subsidies to groups such as the Peña del Caldero or sports and socio-health associations as a policy of subcontracting: "They have allocated 563,000 euros to a garden care contract when We have the worst gardens in the history of San Pedro.
They have outsourced services for 5 million euros in 2017 and the truth is that we have to question their ability to sign contracts and choose advantageous options, because that huge amount of money is not affecting the situation of the people from Pinar del Rio, "lamented José Luis Ros.
Source: Ciudadanos Región de Murcia