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The socialist mayor Juan Patricio Castro describes as "the height of shamelessness" the local government announced a debt living below this figure, when the report of the Municipal Intervention in the last quarter of 2014 is clear: the debt reaches 35 M € short term, 193 M € over the long term and € 943,388 of Urbamusa

Councilman Juan Patricio Castro Socialist Group regrets how local PP throws half-truths for their own aggrandizement.

In this case, Castro refers to the announcement by the mayor of Finance, Isabel Martinez Conesa, on a positive result in the financial statements for 2014, but without explaining that this result is mainly due to indiscriminate increases in taxes, fees and public prices that penalize families and companies are faring worse;

and the efforts of providers, which have ceased to count them bills, has not been paid in a timely manner, 17 million euros at year end.

"Only lack the budget surplus which boasts the PP, and which has not announced his figure, just say it's generous, approaching those 17 M € that the local government has failed to pay suppliers last year" says the socialist mayor.

The height of shamelessness

Also, Castro describes as "the height of shamelessness" the local government announced a debt living below that actually has the City.

According to the report of the Municipal Intervention in the last quarter of 2014, sent to the Ministry of Finance, the outstanding debt reaches 35 million short-term, more long-term 193 943 368 Urbamusa, which totals more than 229 million euros.

Unanswered questions

The questions that people in the street becomes says Councilman PSOE, is how it is possible that the City has surplus and keep raising taxes or not paid to suppliers in a timely manner;

or how can an outstanding debt of 229 M €, the best policy remains the borrow from banks.

"Twenty years with the same policy and increasingly deteriorated, with worse road infrastructure, particularly in the districts, as well as the public transport outdated and discriminatory public services, lack of cleanliness throughout the municipality, increased insecurity, the number of robberies have increased and not give solution as well as the imposition of co-payments and principal repayments on social services, "concludes Castro.

Source: PSOE Murcia