This Thursday March 14th plenary Extraordinary, municipal budgets approved by an absolute majority of the People's Party met.
The estimates of revenue and expenditure for 2014 amounted to almost 35 million Euros.
Fernando Vera said that "2014 budgets are an economic absurdity, portraying paralysis of the governing Popular Party, unable to manage the painful financial situation that have plunged the hall".
The Municipal spokesperson Socialists stressed that "the elimination of Municipal Boards of Culture and Sports has not meant saving some, since the expenditure in Chapter 1, personnel, has seen increased by 23%, amounting to more than 13 million euros. "
Vera has also claimed that "the long-term debt of the City has exceeded 35 million, which means that each month the pachequeros have to spend 478,000 euros to pay amortization and interest, while social games are cut and worse the quality of services provided to citizens. "
Municipal debt has increased by € 12,600 per day on average during the last 5 years, the socialist mayor.
Meanwhile, the Secretary General of the PSOE in Torre Pacheco, Juan Salvador Sánchez, said that "while the City more than 600,000 euros a year is spent on confidence and 10 councilors released" municipal taxes not slow its rise.
This year, according to the complaint Sánchez, "put up in different sections and amounts varying between 7.7% and 11%, in addition to the rise of the tax or property tax, which is already one of the highest in the Region of Murcia ".
"We have prepared a series of amendments to try to improve these estimates for the accounts of the City, and provide greater social and civic dimension," said Vera.
The Socialist Group has introduced various amendments to eliminate unnecessary and wasteful spending.
Thus, the PSOE has proposed the reduction from eleven to three of the council released, elimination of staffing, rent reduction for public and private buildings external technical studies uses.
With these measures, the City could save 500,000 euros.
The Socialist Spokesman has proposed that these savings be invested in promoting employment, repair of rural roads, roundabouts and bad roads in aid youth and students without resources, promoting tourism, trade and brand "# DeTorrePacheco "and increased subsidies for NGOs in the municipality.
In the plenary budget Extraordianrio held on Thursday March 14, the Popular Party has rejected the amendments of the PSOE, and those of the other groups, and budgets have gone ahead with the votes of its 13 councilors.
During the plenary, Vera has asked the government team "to demand that the future president of the autonomous region a better deal for the town," he considers "mistreated by the regional administration Valcárcel," and has called on the Mayor greater rigor in the fight against the economic crisis plaguing the town.
Source: PSOE Torre Pacheco