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The Councillor for Finance, Bartholomew Pallares, considered very urgent reform of local funding that would ensure the provision of all services, some of which are by no jurisdiction of the municipalities, and has criticized the new setback will consistories to suffer from the funds of the second Plan E.

Pallarés recalled that 30% of the budget of the municipalities are committed to providing social services, care for the disabled, domestic violence, elderly, education and unemployment, among others so that they are skills that are improper leading out to be the closest institutions, representing an expenditure of more than 7,000 million euros a year.

A lack of funding is added, said the popular mayor, a deep economic crisis is causing a lack of liquidity and severe reduction in income that leaves many municipalities to the brink of collapse.

To this must be added the limited support provided by the Zapatero government because, as explained, the municipalities seem to have become an uncomfortable issue for the central executive and finance has been postponed until 2011.

The PP mayor has criticized Zapatero has become violate another commitment to the citizens, for in his investiture debate in 2008 announced that it would address the financing of autonomous regions and municipalities simultaneously to provide financial stability to public services we provide .

"Second Local Investment Fund, another error"

He also claims that the Government has approved a new Local Investment Fund in 2010 for 5,000 million euros, which again does not address the real needs of municipalities and has demanded to be allowed to devote 60 Consistories % Fund payments to vendors and invoices, and that the plan can be collected only for these purposes to 20%.

He has also said that the first plan Zapatero has emerged as a real fiasco because neither has managed to create the jobs that were promised has not solved the main problems of financing the municipalities.

One of the measures that would improve the municipal coffers would be recovery for the City of VAT generated by contracting the work of Plan E, which could be allocated to current expenditure of local authorities.

It has also considered a "paradox" that the objective of this plan is intended to investments in a preferential curiously powers are those of the municipalities, such as technology.

Source: PP Totana. Foto: archivo Totana.com