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The spokesman of Cs has asked the Mayor of Murcia for the immediate convening of an urgent meeting to address, as the only point to be discussed, the system of minor contracts in the City of Murcia, a fact that today he has informed the Governing Board

The spokesman of Cs, Mario Gómez, has requested in writing to José Ballesta the urgent call for a meeting to address as a single item on the agenda the system of minor contracts in the City of Murcia and which has today transmitted in the Governing Board .

The Director of Legal Services of the City Council, as well as the General Intervention, the Chief of the Contracting Services and the Chiefs of Treasury and Accounting Services shall also attend this meeting.

In this regard, the spokesman for the orange formation has transferred to the councilors during the celebration of the Governing Board that this is an issue on which he has already been working in various meetings with the various directors and heads of services in the areas indicated.

Mario Gómez explained that during the meeting the conclusions of Instruction 1/2019 issued by the Independent Office of Regulation and Supervision of Contracts, an organ created with the purpose of ensuring the correct application of the legislation, should promote the concurrence and combat illegalities in relation to public procurement, whose reports "are mandatory for the public sector organs of the State."

An effective control mechanism

Likewise, the spokesman of Cs intends that in said meeting “a mechanism of clear and effective control over minor contracts in all municipal departments and services to prevent fraudulent use be established, reduce them to the exceptionalities established in the Contract Law of the Public Sector and put an end to the legal insecurity in which all the councilors are currently located �.

"We must avoid at all costs," he stressed, "that it is possible to incur a possible fraud of law and that the hiring of the City of Murcia remains in question, especially given the recent publications appeared in the media in relation to to the Pedanías case, in which alleged finger contracts and crimes of prevarication, influence peddling and embezzlement by the former PP councilor, Cristóbal Herrero, are investigated. â€�

For the mayor Mario Gómez, “it is a very serious and worrisome issue that requires an urgent meeting and the commitment of all councilors.

We must not continue another day allowing our Administration to continue using the minor contract as an ordinary procedure when it should be exceptional in our City Council.

Source: Ciudadanos Murcia