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The spokesman for IU-Greens in the city of Murcia, Esther Herguedas, said today that the reform of the local administration of the central government, "especially detrimental to the public and will cut essential public services."

Herguedas was speaking against the session while participating in the rally called against that reform, together with the coordinator of IU-Greens in Murcia, Francisco Muñoz and Council of Antonio López de Segura Molina and Francisco Vicente.

Also participating in the call of the secretary of the formation of the left, José Manuel López, and the coordinator of the Presidency, Sergio Ramos.

The mayor has indicated that the reform raised the Government of the Nation "was sloppy from the technical point of view" and "political nonsense that invades regional powers."

It has been thought that the reform "finishes with the principle of local autonomy" is "ideological centralist" and also "will not serve to save, but to gain private companies at the expense of eliminating public services."

"The reform goes with the sole will and the imposition of the PP, which has refused to agree to any political force, and thus breaks with the tradition of consensus was on the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces," he added.

Furthermore, "resurrects the county councils, undemocratic institutions of Francoism" she added Herguedas, after which he insisted that "not going to solve the problems of the municipalities, which require more skills, more local autonomy and more funding from the state. "

He recalled also that IU has submitted to Congress an amendment to the bill all of this reform, as well as a set of partial amendments, which were rejected by the PP.

The project is expected to be debated next Monday in the Senate and, upon approval, will be returned to Congress.

For his part, the head of Municipal Policy IU-Greens in the Region of Murcia, José Luis Alvarez-Castellanos, said that the law "is a coup in the making and involved a radical model of local government proposed in the Constitution. "

"Removes skills, subtraction human, financial and material resources to municipalities, eliminates the continuity conditions and services, generate more loss of jobs in the public administration and bankruptcy over 30 years of municipal democratic history," he asserted.

IU-Green has been advanced that will perform a wide mobilization throughout the region to explain to the public the consequences of this reform will have on public services and local autonomy.

Source: IURM