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House criticizes the municipalities and citizens are the forgotten by the Executive

The financial reality is that municipalities are the forgotten by the Government of the Nation.

The Mayor, Miguel Angel House, which opened this morning the Third Conference on Local Finance dedicated to debt, reported that in recent years the executive headed by Rodríguez Zapatero has used its effort to negotiate financing with state government, "ignoring at all times to the municipalities, which is tantamount to saying that ignoring citizens. "

House calls for stable funding for municipalities for the services they provide because "we are not an administration that generate spending, but services such as lighting, street maintenance, street cleaning, security, social welfare, the operation of schools, sports facilities, etc.

Are necessary services for the citizens can live. "

However, the response given by the National Government is that local governments have increasingly less resources.

Besides the cuts in transfers from the State this year establish other complementary measures "will further hamper our ability to meet our commitments with suppliers," says the Mayor.

Since 2008, there has been around between 10% and 12% less income, less transfers, "which makes us almost 30% of cumulative decline," said House, adding that by 2011 will require the return of some progress that was awarded to "the result of improvisation" of the Government of the Nation "when they said in 2008 that there was no crisis."

In this sense, the Mayor complains that "not only receive less, but we also demand more, while not sit down to negotiate something fundamental like a law on financing of local governments to give us stability we need."

Within the national deficit, only 0.5 of the 12 points correspond to the 8,100 Spanish municipalities and all public debt in Spain, is attributable only between 5.5 and 6% to the municipalities.

"Our contribution to the indebtedness of public accounts is minimal and yet we are asked more and more efforts, such as preventing access to credit or use of our resources to meet payments to suppliers", denouncing the mayor House.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia