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IU-green: "The PP frontal attack on the Spanish municipalism" (18/07/2012)

Jose Garcia Murcia, councilman IU spokesman Lorca-Green has complained that the forthcoming reform of the Basic Law on Local Government expected from the report on the draft law on rationalization and sustainability of local government, from July 13 Council of Ministers, is done with the excuse of bringing it to the Budgetary Stability Law voted by both PP and PSOE, attacking the principles of municipal autonomy and sufficiency.

For IU-Green's excuse is false and that municipalities have enacted, long, compliance can not approve a balanced budget in any budget deficit and forcing them, should be the same, at the end next year to approve the budget with a surplus sufficient to cover the deficit.

Thus, they argue, was neither urgent nor necessary legal amendments to ensure that the first local case existed for a long time.

According to Garcia Murcia municipal economic problems stem from the historical failure of local financing and falling municipal revenues.

Thus, the spokesman recalled that the contribution of municipalities to the deficit of all public administrations in our country is completely irrelevant, so do not include such radical measures as envisaged to address a nonexistent problem or only minor, recalling that the average debt of the municipalities in this country is 3.4% in only 4/10 exceeding the limit of budgetary stability law, being the regional administrations and especially state, which accumulate more debt without them taken against this such measures.

Murcia Garcia said that some of the measures that incorporate this reform, abolished local authorities under the existing 3,725, the associations whose financial viability is not assured from its powers to be exercised by the provincial councils, which are reinforced and the elimination for the next elections in 21,338 councilors, municipalities can not have more than 35 councilors, among other issues.

The councilor says that the PP will not only see the duster, but his authoritarian tendencies, like the command and ordered them chirps all that sounds like autonomy.

For the formation of this reform is a left twist to the Spanish municipalism limiting their policy and management capacity.

Attests a stab in the back for municipalism Spanish, demagogic blaming economic problems exclusively to the salary of the council or the claim that in Spain there are 500,000 political and surplus.

Murcia Garcia stressed that this reform is an attack on the principle of local autonomy.

Introduce elements such as the ability of municipalities with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants may be deprived of its powers to provide minimum services by decision of the autonomous communities, clear attack on the principle of local autonomy, gives a legal and political preeminence to the regions about the council has no legal restraint and relegated to a role for municipal waste in the political content management.

It also denounces the council that this reform aims to reduce the PP municipal activity to a minimum.

In fact, regular, to conduct public economic initiatives by municipalities, it has to be approved by the governing bodies of the Autonomous Communities, with conditions so exaggerated and control systems as comprehensive, but can claim that they are not carried out.

What it does is change the constitutional model of the territorial structure of relegating the role of municipalities to mere delegations of the autonomous communities and the state, no political content and without management beyond what other administrations decide.

According to IU-Green project violates the provisions of Art 142 of the Spanish Constitution and if approved should be politically and legally challenging its constitutionality.

Similarly, the spokesman also reported that limited the competence framework of municipalities, disappearing any express reference to the responsibility for education and health that are contained in the current text, eliminating those relating to women's equality, protection of the environment or housing among others.

It also eliminates the second transitory provision of the current Law on Local Rules of the clause containing a residual competence has allowed municipalities have been able to make policies in areas other than the strictly defined.

On the other hand, for IU-Green is incomprehensible to strengthen the role of councils, especially when many critics call for its abolition inert given their skills

Since the formation of extreme gravity qualify policy not to make any mention of the funding needed to meet the challenges municipal and only mentions the obligation to fulfill the Law of Budgetary Stability above all, no mention even once the citizens and their rights and addressing the local financial failure.

On the contrary the transitional provisions in the bill establishing the obligation to assess the cost of municipal services by establishing three options for municipalities if they are deficient: either closed or privatized or are involved.

Management philosophy of high PP into law.

With regard to the more publicized by the media of this reform, the reduction of councilors, Murcia Garcia calls it attack on democracy.

As for the argument used leftover councilors, explains that many of these are not paid and claims that, without doubt, after the measure is the idea of ​​relaunching the bipartisanship from the latest trends that tend to diffusing, tearing the roots voice many citizens.

In addition, said that ending a key figure in the Spanish electoral map, ie the local party formed by independent neighbors and everything will be decided by the kind of parallel state that some are called PPPSOE.

In short, according to Garcia Murcia attacks democracy and want a country comfortable to hold, to the extent decided by the markets, the troika and big business, but not its citizens, and insists that it intended to end the "troublesome" municipal autonomy to municipalities leaving relegated to mere secondary service managers, seriously damaging to the districts and forgetting all about the promises and claims of democratic election of village headman, the possibility of neighborhood councils, and to form minor local entities, and of course to create new municipalities, measures that break with the tradition of consensus within the federation of municipalities (FEMP).

IU-Green only agrees with the fact proportional to establish consistent criteria and the wage of the councilors and mayors, concerned that this group has called for a while.

For these reasons, from IU-Green announced the presentation at the next plenary session in July of a motion for the strong statement against this reform, urging the national government to the crash.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca

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