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Murcia Change will take to the Plenary next Thursday a motion for the Council of Transparency of the Region to control compliance with the obligations of active publicity and the right of access to public information, collected in the state law of Transparency and Good Governance, by the City Council.

The councilman who will defend the initiative, Sergio Ramos, explained that the aforementioned rule was approved by Congress in 2013 in order to strengthen transparency in public activity in the administrations, guarantee access to information and establish the obligations of good government that public officials must meet.

However, in the Region of Murcia, the Legal Council decided that its 45 municipalities are exempt from complying with the basic state regulations, so that the citizens of this autonomous community "are in a situation of inequality in relation to the rest", what is "a violation of the right to equality" included in the Constitution.

Ramos has insisted that although Murcia has been recognized for its high standards by Transparency International, the reality is that "they can not be verified by the Transparency Council", which has had to reject requests referring to the right of access to the information presented by citizens of Murcia.

The legal group Las Vías brought this situation to the attention of the central government, which has urged the opening of procedures to adopt the necessary measures aimed at guaranteeing equality and the right to information of the population of the Region of Murcia. protection of a report of the State Advocacy.

In this report, this body expresses that in the absence of the assumption of an autonomous community of the powers that the law of Transparency and Good Governance, the application of Article 155 of the Constitution, referring to forced compliance, prior request to the regional president is appropriate. and the approval by the Senate majority of said obligations.

Source: Cambiemos Murcia