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| The initiative would start with a meeting of the two or three dozen largest municipalities in Spain to become a "pressure group "| Sosa reproaches the Lorca rulers for their conservative profile in terms of public revenue and their regressive fiscal policies that punish those who have the least and reward the powerful Pedro Sosa Martínez, IU Municipal Spokesperson, explained this morning one of the main proposals that his Group will defend in the municipal plenary session next Monday, a motion that focuses on Lorca as a large municipality (the second in Spain) and on the need to "meet" other Spanish municipalities that present the same uniqueness of the breadth of their territory.
That meeting would lay the foundations for a common front that claims before the regional, state and even European administrations, the difficulties and the greater public spending that large municipalities have to face to face public services and the competences that are their own .
A municipality with a highly concentrated population in a small territorial space is not the same, explains Sosa,than another like Lorca who has to bring public services to towns that are many kilometers from the center. The IU councilor has begun to reflect on the income policy of the Lorca City Council.
Since the Spanish political transition and the arrival of democracy to the municipalities, says Sosa, the municipality of Lorca and those who have governed it throughout this time has traditionally been a very conservative municipality, little given to entering into novel municipal public policies , reluctant to adopt in its territory the most innovative political experiences in the areas of municipalities and its powers, and very suspicious when it comes to betting on cooperation and establishing political relations with other Spanish municipalities with which we share similarities, or proximity, or common problems ... To show a button, it is significant that the city of Lorca, governed by some or governed by others, is so reluctant to bet on economic saving measures that, a priori, seem as effective and as attractive as those arbitrated and publicized by the Federation Spanish Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) around the Central Contracting.
We have tried actively and passively, and there is no way.
And this despite the fact that we are convinced that the coffers of the City Council of Lorca today would have enough millions of euros more if, from the first moment, our City Council would have attended the initiative of the Municipal Group of IU to join, as most of municipalities of the CARM,to that Central of the FEMP for the contracting and payment of services as costly economically as the one that has to do with the supply of energy. The same happens with the most innovative experiences, actions, decisions and public policies related to municipal taxation.
We have tried it on all fronts: motions, amendments to fiscal ordinances, political agreements.
And nothing.
There is no way.
And the only certain thing is that the City Council of Lorca has spent decades making the burden of municipal taxation burden the shoulders of the vast majority of its citizens, without daring to review in the least the structure and content of an old local tax.
, "old" and unjust - in order to provide it with greater and much needed tax justice.
And here, again, the same thing happens.
It does not matter who governs.We do not leave an iota of a tax scheme that other municipalities have been overcome for years with the effective implementation of taxes and fees through the approval of tax ordinances that, when directing their gaze to those who have greater economic capacity (large corporations, large fortunes, electricity companies, telecommunications, multinational distribution companies, large commercialization chains, etc.), can thereby alleviate the local tax burden for all citizens. And since there are not two without three, Sosa will propose a new initiative, which has also historically been part of the political program that IU offers to the citizens of Lorca, and that at one time (in the mid-nineties of last century) It was also part of the demands of the Lorca City Council and the governments of the moment.
We refer to the need to value one of the most marked singularities of the municipality of Lorca: its wide territory, its great extension. We live in a time where municipal political experiences intersect every day, actions are coordinated to take advantage of "economies of scale" in this area of ??municipalism, municipal pressure groups are formed, with more or less defensible objectives, which, we well know, they affect public budgets, the distribution of subsidies, or even the wording of the laws.
From the "tourist municipalities", which even have their own article in the basic law of local haciendas, to the "depopulated municipalities" of the so-called "emptied Spain" of whose group we are also part, passing through many other categories nucleated around the most disparate circumstances. At this point, it seems clear that the intention of this motion is to promote, putting the municipality of Lorca as a pioneer of this initiative, the establishment of relations with the twenty or thirty largest municipalities in Spain, with the aim of putting in common experiences of municipal management conditioned by this circumstance (breadth of the territory) and its incidence in the provision of local services to citizens: transportation, citizen security, cleaning, supplies, traffic, public roads, social services. A second objective of this initiative would be to claim that condition and its incidence in the greater economic effort that large municipalities must make to provide the various public services that are their own before the state and regional administrations.
In short, it would be about claiming the establishment of new criteria for the distribution of public resources - European, state and regional - beyond those that have traditionally been turned to tax and budgetary regulations, related to the right population and fiscal effort of their citizens. The IU agreement, textually says: "The Department of Finance will elaborate a strategy aimed at establishing cooperative relations with the twenty or thirty largest municipalities in Spain, with the aim of sharing municipal management experiences conditioned by the size of the territory and its incidence in the provision of local services, as well as claiming this condition before the state and regional administrations and its incidence in the greater economic effort that large municipalities must make for the provision of the various audiences that are their own " .
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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