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Murcia UPyD spokesman criticizes the strengthening of the role of councils provide more power to provincial councils, "whose members are democratically elected by the citizens"
Ruben Juan Serna, spokeswoman for Progress and Democracy Union in the city of Murcia, said that the resolutions adopted by the Council of Ministers for the rationalization and sustainability of local governments "are not aimed at an effective solution to the problems."
To UPyD Murcia this reform raised the Government does not come to solve the fault current system further having a character "regressive and undemocratic" to give more power to local councils, "whose members are democratically elected by the citizens."
According to Serna what you get with this reform is to "strengthen the provincial powers and the ability of placing the big games."
"We claim to be political transparency citizens who decide on elected officials and power quotas for political parties, which are now elected provincial deputies."
Furthermore, the reform does not address the merger of municipalities which for Serna "is a process that must be initiated through a serious and rigorous study leading to the merger of the municipalities under 20,000 inhabitants."
"We must learn from what made citizens throughout Europe, merging municipalities to reduce operating costs and gain efficiency and quality service delivery."
In the section highlights positive issues limiting the salaries of mayors and the new distribution of powers, "measures UPyD takes several years defending".
"The positive understand that will mean, in the case of the City of Murcia significant savings of several million euros" after returning skills Education and Health in the Autonomous Community, "services now provided by the municipality and that our view is not competent, "he concludes.
Source: UPyD Murcia
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