Compostela Aberta presents 20 measures for the new budgets | Radio Galicia

The local government of Santiago already knows the Compostela Aberta document with its proposals for the 2020 budgets. There are 20 measures that the progressive formation of the opposition considers to be “beneficial for the city”, among which are social rights, the pact for rural areas and the execution of the investments approved in the 2018 participatory budgets.

The CA municipal spokesperson, Martiño Noriega, focused on reeling off three points of the document. In the section on social rights, he stressed the need to strengthen the Basic Citizen Guarantee ordinance, to improve care for those people who are in a situation of social emergency. He also made reference to maintenance of the Home Help Service, with three million euros, and the boost of children’s basic income, with 650,000 euros.

Noriega stopped at the importance for the city of the pact for the rural, dedicating 2.5 million euros in investments, and an additional million for maintenance.

Also, requested that the investments approved in the participatory budgets be executed in 2018. Noriega believes that not doing so “would be like denying the participation of the people.” Therefore, it calls on the municipal government to comply, and then decide whether or not it wants to maintain this initiative.

The document of Compostela Aberta It also includes items related to women’s equality, with the maintenance of the Compostela Territorio das Mulleres program, the development of new equipment or the Municipal Center of Integral Attention to the Homeless People.

The plan to humanize school canteens, employment and reindustrialization measures, others to boost commerce and improve services, are some of the points that will be negotiated in the next meetings Compostela Aberta and government representatives, councilors Marta Abal and Sindo Guinarte

Progressive agreement

Martiño Noriega again regretted the delay in preparing the budgets and the accumulated delay. In this sense, asked the mayor of the city, Xosé Sánchez Bugallo, not to attribute this delay to the dialogue process. He assured that, even if he had an absolute majority, he could approve the accounts within the deadlines that the councilor manages.

In addition, he affirmed that “it is not normal” that they have been the first to make a proposal public, and asserted that “the delay from the tax ordinances is not understood”, since, from that moment, the income has been known.

Of all, he reached out again to the government to achieve a “progressive agreement”. Noriega did not want to mark “red lines” or percentages of compliance with Compostela Aberta’s proposal to support socialist accounts.

The municipal spokesman of CA understands that both parties will have to make concessions and abandon their starting position to reach a “point of equilibrium.”

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