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The municipal groups of the PP, Vox, Platform Citizen "Now Totana" and Citizens have recently submitted a request addressed to the Mayor's Office urging the convening of an extraordinary plenary session in which, definitively and after several unsuccessful attempts, the Remuneration agreement for the members of the Municipal Corporation, both the Government and the opposition, for this term.
The petition signed by a total of ten councilors of the aforementioned municipal political groups was signed by check-in on August 8, so the mayor, Juan José Cánovas, has until September 4 to call this extraordinary session, every time you receive and know a specific proposal from the applicants.
The current legislation allows the opposition groups to formally request this extraordinary plenary call, although it is the Mayor's office who will raise the proposed agenda for the session once an agreement is reached.
This situation of political and institutional blockade has led to the fact that no corporate, nor the six of the municipal government formed by Ganar Totana-IU or the rest of the 15 corporate opposition, have received a single euro since the formal formation of the new Municipal Corporation on June 15, although the new municipal political and administrative structure for this mandate was set up in mid-July.
Since then several meetings of spokesmen and two municipal plenary sessions have been held, one extraordinary and the ordinary one corresponding to the month of July, in which it was tried to determine, without success, the amount of compensation for assistance to collegiate bodies, grants to the municipal groups and compensation to councilors with exclusive dedication.
This matter was discussed, specifically, in the extraordinary plenary session of July 15, not being approved after several amendments were submitted by the opposition political groups;
and in the ordinary one of the 31 of the same month, being withdrawn by the Mayor's Office "in the absence of consensus and its political instrumentalization".
On July 8, the first Board of Spokespersons was held to address this issue and, since then, it has only been addressed by changing position in the form of amendments in both plenary sessions but without any result or specificity.
Despite this situation, those responsible for the different areas of the City of Totana are already developing their governmental functions in this political context for two months, new in this institution in the recent democracy.
In this regard, the first mayor, Juan José Cánovas, reiterates his position of permanent dialogue and his approach to reach meeting points that allow the normal functioning of the City Council.
In addition, he said that he is waiting for the municipal groups requesting the plenary to look for real alternatives that will allow the elaboration of a concrete proposal that will enable the government and the opposition to develop their management and control work, respectively.
Cánovas advocates maintaining avenues of dialogue before the request for extraordinary plenary sessions in August and regrets that the issue of compensation can be used "as weapons of revenge or blockade of minority governments", as is the case of Totana, with six councilors in the Government of the 21 that make up the Municipal Corporation
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana
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