The Socialist Group in the Tinajo City Council has denounced "the authoritarian attitude of the mayor Jesús Machín and his government group" in relation to the recent initial approval of the municipal budget, held “without minimum guarantees of transparency or institutional respect.”
“We appeared at the plenary session with deep concern. Not because of the content of the budget, which undoubtedly deserved an exhaustive analysis, but because of the absolute lack of rigor in the procedure for debating and approving a document that marks the economic and social course of our municipality,” said the socialist spokesperson, Begoña Hernández.
The socialist councilor explained that "last Tuesday, at 3:00 p.m., the Finance Commission was convened to discuss the budget, and less than 24 hours later the plenary session was called for its approval, with a file of 26 files and without real time for its study."
“This lack of respect for debate times is no coincidence. It is a reflection of an authoritarian attitude, of a mayor and a government group that shun debate and despise the role of the opposition,” Hernández stated. “And the most serious thing is that this contempt is not only towards the PSOE councilors, but towards all the citizens who voted for us to carry out a work of oversight and proposal. Silencing the opposition is silencing a part of the people of Tinajo,” she continued.
For the PSOE of Tinajo, what happened with this budget "not only demonstrates an absolute contempt for dialogue, but a way of doing politics based on imposition and opacity." “Democracy is built with confrontation of ideas, with public debate, not with haste or concealment,” added the socialist spokesperson.
“We are not here to obey orders, we are here to defend the interests of our neighbors, to guarantee that every decision is made with transparency and responsibility,” concluded Begoña Hernández. “Impositions do not replace debate, and democracy is not built with despotism, but with consensus,” she stated.
