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"It's an insult to the municipalities, which want to be the ones to pay the poor economic policy Zapatero."

According to the Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, who this morning in Madrid attended the meeting of the Executive of the FEMP, the measures relating to local government in the royal decree of the National Government to reduce public deficit are nonsense.

And is not the only problem, since it also will cause "the collapse of the municipalities and municipal-level economic activity."

Besides being the result of improvisation, "House says the decision to restrict access to credit to local authorities" is a sign that President Rodriguez Zapatero did not know what he does, as evidenced by the change that has taken today to do to render effective the prohibition of debt in 2010. "

Another serious consequence of the measure is causing legal uncertainty to be rescinded multi-year commitments or investments financed with European funds.

Chamber recalled that the municipalities are experiencing financial cuts two years as never before.

Between 2008 and 2009, this decline has resulted in 7,000 million euros less for municipal coffers.

"And all without dialogue, and consensus," he notes.

Murcia Mayor reported on the request transmitted to the President of the FEMP to require a total correction of this rule and not articulate any other against the municipalities.

In any case, "stressed House," the mayors want to open a dialogue between FEMP and the National Government in order to reach agreements necessary "so that from the municipalities to help overcome the severe economic crisis."

Thus, local authorities are committed to continue working in that direction but with a caveat: "without impositions that tend to exacerbate rather than solve problems."

The Mayor points out that municipal contracts possible to maintain the employment and economic activity and many small and medium-sized Spanish towns subsist on local public works contracts.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia