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The IU-Greens spokesman in Murcia, Esther Herguedas, said today that the City "has made little progress in transparency" and that high score on the report by Transparency International is "the result of a technical operation a real improvement in the information and citizen participation. "
In your opinion, with respect to previous years the municipal website "has only improved in the publication of municipal budgets," while "the other issues remain virtually unchanged."
Herguedas noted that the evaluation method proposed by Transparency International is a pre-completed questionnaire with indicators or questions, grouped by topic, which in reply is a link to the website of the local authority which evaluated find the information on this indicator, it must be checked by the related authorities.
If the information is published, the indicator gets a 1 and if it is incomplete, a 0.
This is titrated from 1 to 100.
The spokesman acknowledged that the links exist and lead to information, but has said that in many cases the content does not provide information on the functioning of municipal life, "beyond the regulations and the composition of certain organs."
"We understand the complexity of a study of this type may not result into more depth, but that is why we think that the data must be interpreted with caution."
Also pointed out that "while obtaining these qualifications Murcia City Council charged 1.55 euros for any copy of document" which "in many cases difficult access to administrative files consist of thousands of pages, establishes procedures citizen participation which is required by law in August and excludes many groups of citizens participation in local councils that it creates, and thus become mere decorations maybe computed in polls transparency, but they are useless. "
Source: IURM
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