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San Pedro del Pinatar this weekend hosted the Fourth Conference on Citizenship, which this year have focused on "Strengthening Civil Society.

Strategies before the crisis. "

The mayor of San Pedro del Pinatar, José García, inaugurated the conference by stressing the need to rethink new strategies involving more to society and help to make democracy sustainable.

"It is fair and legal voting every four years, but it is unethical to leave open letter to politicians during this time.

It is therefore important to work and govern with the citizens, because the common horizon should be the quality of democracy. "

On Friday afternoon the conference focused on the practical side, where projects were presented and raised associative means of financing them.

Thus, the head of the European point of Citizenship in Spain's Ministry of Culture, Augusto Paramio, dealt with the possibilities of financing projects Europe-wide association.

Paramio explained that the European point of Citizenship host of competitive programs, which should consist of several countries and are evaluated by a committee of experts from the European Union and compatible with other government grants.

Following the intervention of Paramio, we developed a panel of good practices in partnerships involving Hippocampus, who presented the project "Seahorse commitment of everyone," Majabuka, who presented the workshop "Experience Pinatarense" and Sakiais Ken Dikela, which dealt with the "Schools of Knowledge and Citizen Participation."

The second day focused on the theoretical dimension of civic participation and its impact on the responses to the crisis.

Professor of Political Science and Administration, University of Murcia, Luis Ramiro Fernández, opened the day with the paper "The associations in Spain."

Luis Ramiro said the low rate of association in Spain and raised as the main causes lack of association culture, working hours and leisure time.

Also reported that some regional governments, citing the economic crisis, are dismantling the social structures that served to balance the actions of public authorities, such as unions, who are experiencing a weakening of its power in civil society.

Later speaking professor of sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​Oscar Rebollo, with the conference "Participatory Methodologies to the crisis."

Rebollo opened his address by identifying the reasons for the participation in politics and improving governance through government networks, the increase in the quality of democracy in front of the discrediting of politics and the strengthening of civil society it has the capacity to influence.

Before the crisis, which poses Rebollo as "fraud" requires a strong civil society and organized to dispel the idea that this is inevitable and that they are the same people who have gotten into it that we have to take.

And stressed the importance of fostering a participatory society at large, because the political culture in Spain is based on the precept "You do not worry, we'll fix it" and, according Rebollo, you have to start telling people dealing, we must restore public problems and promote their involvement in solving them from a compromising position and realistic.

The deputy general manager of Citizen Participation of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Fernando Pinder, closed the conference with the conference "Social Organizations and the quality of democracy, a challenge of today."

Pinder influenced the need for partnerships and civil organizations involved in politics, as citizens are required to build and sustain the democratic system and criticized that, at present, "the public is by protest and not by the proposal , thinks that politics is complicated and seeks only short-term objectives. "

It therefore submitted that the challenge of the associations, as representatives of citizens, is the ability to create your own project with active influence in policy, to defend ethical values ​​and, thus, strengthen the democratic functioning.

Concluded that to achieve this involvement is necessary to dismantle the idea that politics is only of politicians and believe in it as the mechanism to solve the problems.

Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar