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Now Murcia and change have filed a motion in Parliament on Thursday for the Corporation to join the defense of local autonomy, as have municipalities of Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Cadiz and Valencia, and claim the central government a new law Local Rules, known as 'Montoro Law', to replace the current that has been "a significant decline" in public services.

Through this initiative, these formations have pointed out that the current legislation was proposed by the PP "under the pretext of waste, overlap and the financial failure", but the reality is that its effects have led to a worsening of benefits offering municipalities, increased privatization and a reduction of municipal powers.

This situation has led the parliamentary group United We Can-In Comú Podem-In Marea has introduced in Congress a bill to temporarily return to pre-2013 consensus and implement urgent measures to enable the consistory, until there is a new law on Local Government, provide essential services.

One of the arguments of this proposal is the need for locally constitutes a fundamental space for defense and the fight for social rights and lay the foundations for the new municipalismo of the century, with the aim of increasing the powers of the entities local;

promote a new system of local funding and to ensure transparency and direct participation of citizens.

Participatory process to develop the new municipalismo

For now Murcia and change, it is necessary that the central government a participatory process in which local authorities, associations of municipalities, civil society and citizenship, where the foundation for the construction of the new municipalismo be developed are represented rests involving an increase of the powers and strengthening of public services.

"Ultimately, it is about building cities with rights, against which meant the law of the PP, which has amputee democratic guarantees, representation and citizen participation, cutting social services they provided in municipalities satisfactorily and attacking the competence of the autonomous communities and local autonomy ", have concluded.

Source: Cambiemos Murcia