The Mayor of Jumilla Francisco Abellán and Deputy Mayor Jesus Sanchez have appeared at a press conference to make the determination on the conclusion of the Council called on the Mayor yesterday by the President of the Autonomous Community of Murcia, Ramón Luis Region Valcárcel.
The first mayor of Jumilla has indicated he would have liked to attend the Council of Mayors, but he could not because that day was voted the Law on Financing of the Autonomous Communities in the full Senate, an issue that was known by the President Valcárcel and knowing this, called the Council of Mayors of the Region of Murcia from one day to another, being justified the absence of the Mayor of Cartagena in order to attend the plenary of the Congress of Deputies as a Deputy in the said institution, and the Mayor of Jumilla in order to attend the full Senate as the senator.
Abellán has said it is very suspicious that Mr. Valcárcel since in June announced in the debate of State of the Region, which was to convene the Council of Mayors, we did not convene in September to demand that the commitments he has with municipalities of more and better funding for projects of municipalities, such as in education, health, agriculture, water purification, etc., which are also regional competitions and was included in the general budget of the Autonomous Region in 2010.
It is precisely now that the spark you, Mr. Valcárcel, an overnight meeting of the Board of Mayors, to use all the mayors as claimants of the solutions of the Region of Murcia, which many of its responsibilities to him against Zapatero.
Therefore, Abellán has said that no one voice in the 45 municipalities, because Jumilla not share, nor is Valcárcel comparsa the whim of the use of the mayors as if we were "old rags" against President Zapatero has invested in the municipalities of this region in the years 2009 and 2010, more than 360 million euros.
It is suspected that the Federation of Municipalities of the Region of Murcia (FMRM), we do not have gathered to demand the president Valcárcel solutions to municipalities in the face of regional budgets of 2010, which shows that the FMRM is dead, which does not for almost nothing, it costs money to municipalities, and is in the hands of the Mayor of Murcia as chairman, being a political body serving the interests of President Valcárcel and PP strategy in the Region of Murcia.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla