The Mayor of Totana, Juan José Cánovas, has raised a motion for the June Regular Meeting expressing the disagreement of the Totana City Council, which is clearly and emphatically pronounced in defense of the interests of its neighbors and against closure Of the Civil Registry Office that the Government intends.
According to the motion, this Mayor has been aware of the proposed amendment to Law 20/2011, Civil Registry that the Minister of Justice has delivered in the Sectorial Confederation of the corresponding regional councilors, which maintains the intention of Close most of the current Civil Registry offices, possibly including that of this municipality.
So far, and for almost 150 years, all the procedures that are carried out before any Civil Registry, also in this town, are totally close to citizenship and made by staff of the Court;
And in other municipalities by workers of the municipalities themselves.
The materialization of this project of reform of the territorial distribution of Civil Registries will suppose the removal of this public service from the citizenship because it would entail the disappearance of the offices of the Civil Registry in the majority of the medium and small populations, among which is the our.
It would therefore translate into the transfer of such records to the larger capitals, forcing the population of smaller towns like this to cover tens of kilometers to exercise their right or to go, paying the corresponding fees, to Offices or professional offices, as well as implying a deterioration in the social and economic dynamics of this municipality.
It is not even guaranteed that the neighbors of this town can continue to register their sons and daughters, as born in the town when they are born in county or provincial hospitals, causing, in the medium term, the inexistence of people born in this municipality .
The Civil Registry is a public service deeply rooted in this municipality, where the population has been doing the obligatory procedures for free and direct and where the neighbors and neighbors have been able to consult their background and those of their relatives, ascendants and descendants what now , With their disappearance can not continue to do.
This City Council, as it could not be otherwise, opposes this claim, which would also have a serious deterioration of the public service, eliminating resources and suppressing employment.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana