Councillor for IU in the city of Murcia, Esther Herguedas, today denounced the delay in filing the 2011 municipal budget and has been attributed to a "necessity" of the PP to "avoid" there is a public debate prior to the plenary which will be discussed herein.
According Herguedas, the departments are presented to the media his plans for this year can not be quantified, although the budget has not been presented, which "eliminates the debate and political groups can not discuss the proposals in the light of objective data on incomes and expenditures. "
Has shown its concern that the process for submission and approval of the budget is settled in a hurry so that it passes unnoticed as possible to the citizens, to which is added the traditional opacity of the council and represents a decrease of right to information the neighbors. "
In this sense, the mayor has said it will continue to work "for greater transparency in municipal management," while advocating the need for participatory budgeting as an instrument of democratic that both need this municipal institution. "
Source: IURM