Socialist spokesman, Pedro Lopez, the mayor of Murcia requested to give the necessary instructions to immediately terminate outside counsel contract signed by the Department of Finance with the company Consultores SA Public Administrations linked to the former director of CAM, Roberto Lopez Abad, whose arrest has been ordered today.
For Lopez, "is very negative story published today by the media that the City is relying on a signature of chief and senior savings for tasks of financial advice and goes completely against the image that public institutions must offer at this time where you have so many sacrifices to the citizens. "
Therefore, the PSOE spokesman calls for immediate suspension of this contract, which also was awarded 19,360 euros by the Governing Board, without public competition, and hopes the mayor camera perfectly justified the need for this external service.
In addition, Lopez expressed his rejection of this type of consultancies that provide services that can perform perfectly municipal officials are fully qualified.
"This gradual outsourcing generates no benefit to the City, is a totally unnecessary expense," concludes the PSOE councilor.
Finally, Lopez harshly criticizes the policy of privatization of public services and remember that in this term and has requested the suspension of several advisory services, consultancy and technical assistance worth $ 4 million.
Source: PSOE Murcia