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The mayors of the districts governed by the PSOE (Nonduermas, Javalí Viejo, Puebla de Soto, Corvera and La Murta) met today with the Socialist candidate for Mayor of Murcia, Pedro Lopez, to convey the extreme hardship that will to be the Municipal Councils after the cuts it made the City Council in the last budget reduced by more than half the items for current expenses and making investments disappear almost completely.

All village headman Socialists have agreed that "this danger reduction of subsidies they receive from municipal boards hundreds of associations important to the social life of the parishes (women's centers, senior centers, vegetable garden clubs, youth associations and sports) and warned that in the air celebrating the festivities. "

They have also warned the City that "the maintenance of municipal facilities, especially schools, will be very difficult to be in good condition by reducing the economic resources of the municipal boards."

Faced with this situation stifles the hamlets, the Socialist candidate for Mayor of Murcia, Pedro López, explained that a district such as El Palmar with 22,000 inhabitants have more than 360,000 euros for its entire Municipal Board when a city like Las Torres to gossip with a similar population has a total budget of more than 30 million euros and 11.8 only for investment.

For Lopez, the solution to these inequalities passed "by betting on a real decentralization based on the direct election of village headman, giving more powers to the municipal boards and expand the budget to comply with the Rules of Participation and District ".

For his part, Antonio Vigueras, village headman of Nonduermas noted that "games have been declining year by year from 2008 to disappear investments while current expenditure is reduced by 10% yet."

In addition, the village headman of Javalí Viejo, José Francisco Navarro, states that "citizens of districts should not be the only ones to pay the economic mismanagement of the mayor of Murcia. Taxes are for all and cuts must also be, of this how will the districts drowning suffocate the economic resources of the municipal boards. "

Source: PSOE Murcia