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Councilman Let's change Murcia Sergio Ramos said today that the inclusion of the direct election of mayors in the pact signed by PP and Citizens is "an attack" on municipal democracy because "will empty of powers plenary sessions of local councils" and end the control of the action of government meetings by the public.

For Ramos, "improve democracy" in the municipalities is the opposite to what raises this measure referred to in the pact.

"It is necessary to give more power to the full who are representing citizens and citizens because that may be exercised real control and participated in regard to the decisions of the government."

The mayor has argued that the PP and C's intention with this proposal is to end the audit and programmatic agreements derivatives political spaces that represent the popular unit, as have occurred in consistories like Madrid or Barcelona, ​​where teams Government are led by formations of change.

"Improving local democracy is not compatible with a municipal government that does not reflect the majority of the votes expressed in the elections", said Ramos, who said "a municipal list may not have the majority of government and, consequently, the mayor, if it has the support of most voters. "

In this regard, he recalled that Article 140 of the Constitution provides that the vote of neighbors is equal and therefore should have the same value and produce the same effects in the election of councilors.

He has also warned about the fact that the attribution of the mayor or mayor to the most voted would lead to the paradox that could be aldermen and councilors who had received less than 20 percent of the vote, which, based on the results of recent municipal elections, would mean that the number of municipalities whose mayor would not be supported by the majority of voters would be majority.

Ramos has predicted that if the measure reaches formally presented, Let's change Murcia start a round of contacts with other candidacies of popular unit and municipal groups left for protest actions.

Source: Cambiemos Murcia