De Zárate: "We have reached a consensus with the groups that have worked and have made proposals to improve the budget"

Zárate accuses the PSOE of wanting to "paralyze the budget and the city"

The spokesman for the government team, José Ramón González de Zárate, said that "we have reached a consensus with the political groups that have worked and have made proposals to improve the budget," which will be pronounced next Monday in the information commission Estate.

De Zárate has stressed that Citizens (Cs) and Citizens for Benidorm (CBM) have been the two groups that have submitted amendments, collected reports from municipal technicians and held meetings with the government to improve the draft budget, which moved to all The corporation "just a month ago," last February 10.

The spokesman of the PP said that "since October we have made repeated offers to the groups to send us their proposals for the preparation of the budget," and has remarked that "this government has always been open to dialogue with everyone and to listen All "as was the previous year, when amendments were accepted and included in the draft proposals from different political groups, including" many of those submitted by Compromis". 

De Zárate has indicated that Cs and CBM have been the two groups that have responded to this invitation to improve the budget, adding that "that dialogue" and "that work" have allowed "a broad consensus on amendments Economic ". In this sense, he has clarified that the economic amendments of both groups have been accepted and included in the budget because "they are proposals to improve the city, the whole city, all neighborhoods" and are also "projects and actions that are in tune With what this government wants for Benidorm. "

The government spokesman has confronted "the work of Cs and CBM" with "the attitude and erratic strategy of PSOE spokesman Ruben Martinez," which "seeks only to paralyze and boycott the budget and interests of the city." De Zárate has stated that "the only proposal" has made so far the Socialist leader is "insulting and disparaging councilors who do work," and lamented that "the political group with more councilors and resources at their disposal has not done Absolutely nothing in a month ".

He also clarified that to date the PSOE has not registered any amendment or real contribution to the budget, beyond announcing in the press what are supposed to be "political amendments" apparently to the bases of execution. In this regard, he pointed out that the bases of execution have been drafted by municipal technicians following what is marked "the Law of Bases of Local Regime."

"We are very afraid," he stressed, "that the proposals that Mr. Martinez, other than the PSOE, are going to raise have nothing to do with budgeting or improving the city. Its only aspiration, from impotence, is to undermine the competences and the capacity that the Law grants to the governing bodies. "

De Zárate has concluded that "Rubén Martínez does not do any fault for this City Council to work. Now all they need to know is the PSOE. "