The proposed law which will transfer the management of many of the services currently controlled by Town Hall authorities with less than 20,000 inhabitants has been heavily criticised by the Mayor of Calasparra and the regional Socialist Party.
The Mayor of Calasparra, Jesu Navarro, has warned that municipal areas with less than 5,000 residents could lose their local administrations.
Secretary General of the PSRM-PSOE, Rafael González Tovar, claims that the draft law reforming local administrations is “ an attack on direct democracy which are the Town Halls.”
He says the reform will “remove competence from 28 municipal areas in the region with less than 20,000 inhabitants, some 62% of the total of local adminstrations, and this will open the door to the privitization of services.”
At a meeting between the local mayors and spokespersons from Socialist run administrations in the region he told members: “ many basic services such as water and cleaning the parks will pass into the hands of the regional government. This will lead to a deterioration of these services at the point of delivery to our residents.”
