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The IU-Greens councilor in the city of Murcia, José Ignacio Tornel, said today that the municipal budgets for 2014 are "regressing a municipality is unable to submit proposals to overcome the economic crisis."

Tornel, which was considered more appropriate the slogan "Taking the pulse" to set budgets, said that one can not talk of recovery when you have the same budget for 2013 and all this in spite of the increase in tax pressure on rates , charges and other taxes on last year.

The mayor stressed as significant evidence for this concept collection falls into three million and is described as "failure" fiscal policies Councillor of Finance, Isabel Martinez Conesa, "because instead of getting more money, have ensured that the stop people using public services ".

Going into some details of the municipal budget, has denounced the uncertainty Tornel that means having an income of other administrations that may not materialize, while has been critical with the aim of balancing the budget by selling public assets.

On the question of costs, has indicated that the reduction in staff notes that there are increasingly fewer municipal workers and poorer working conditions.

Councilman IU-Greens also criticized the "misleading propaganda" of the PP, who has been accused of "selling austerity policies when the reality is that current spending increases."

Deserve a separate chapter, in the opinion of the leftist mayor, all fixed costs of the contracts through which municipal services have been privatized and are a real drain.

These are street cleaning company, the privately run sports centers, leisure park Terra Natura or Tribugest company that increases your bill going from 7.5 to 9 million euros a year.

In this sense, Tornel said that tax increases citizens not used to improve services, but to fatten the profits of these companies.

To conclude been highlighted as significant fact that this year's budget in social assistance provide the same money that was budgeted in 2008 for ceremonial attentions, a fact that "denotes clearly the disastrous management of PP both in good times as in times of economic crisis. "

Source: IURM