The theater of the Sociocultural Center "La Cárcel" hosted yesterday the holding of the extraordinary plenary session of the inauguration of the second round of municipal government in which Andrés García assumes his new position after being first deputy mayor during the first two years of Mandate, and thus relieving the outgoing mayor of Ganar Totana-IU, Juan José Cánovas.
The solemn ceremony was attended by a large audience that filled this socio-cultural infrastructure, among which socialist mayors of different Murcia municipalities and national deputies and in the Regional Assembly of this same party, as well as militants and sympathizers of the party of the new mayor and Neighbors in general.
Among them were the general secretary of the PSRM-PSOE, Rafael González Tovar, and the socialist deputy totanero, Alfonso Martinez Baños, among others.
SPEECH:
For many people, in which I include myself, a council as a municipal administration can not be a cold entity and oblivious to the most direct problems of citizens and their daily reality.
The municipality is a natural organ of coexistence in which the person must be developed with total freedom.
In the administrative system in force and in the vast majority of cases, it disappears to give place to the individual ..., a simple number among the masses (people), which over time has been losing almost all the feeling of belonging to the community In which he lives.
This is one of the biggest problems that we all have to face.
The articulation of the necessary means so that the people have a voice in the local governing bodies and that way they can recover their protagonism.
To this problem about citizen participation, today is accompanied by the economic crisis that we drag the vast majority and what has been called "globalization."
International economic phenomenon that has originated with its expansion, the loss of national sovereignty, the destruction of the identities of the people, its small industries or handicrafts and the prevailing dominance of the liberal economic paradigm that offers us the worst of their faces.
Revitalizing the municipality and putting it in the forefront of politics, is to give back to the individual his community dimension to rooting people to their land, their traditions, their crafts and, ultimately, their own way of life.
The municipality must be an organ of full citizen participation and political parties must be mere intermediaries of the people who inhabit these local entities.
But democracy is restricted to depositing the vote in a simple urn from time to time, dispossessing the citizen of the legitimate power that belongs to him.
Faced with this representative system of political parties, where these are the main protagonists.
We must defend the municipality as a natural and direct organ of popular participation by which its inhabitants can have voice and decision in the daily politics that affects them under the principle of subsidiarity.
Citizens should be the ones who will direct the municipal administration directly.
Municipalities, in turn, should be conformed in higher communal bodies that would allow the structuring of a state model of deep democratic, natural and social root without the interference of the incomprehensible autonomous administrations imposed during the transition.
Under this model of MUNICIPALIST administration, and thenceforth, the Spanish people would regain lost national sovereignty.
Since this would not be an abstract idea of ​​government born only of a Constitution, but its origin would lie in the popular management of municipalities and the same social sovereignty emanated from these natural bodies of coexistence.
The person, free individual and in turn a social being member of a community, is the center of the being of this worldview that must necessarily start from the same political power but under a system of direct election of representatives and a strict separation Of powers.
Economic self-management is another fundamental point in order to manage our taxes and for this we have to delegate to the municipality the collection and management of most of the taxes we pay.
Like being able to assume direct competences, as for example, could be the management of public health.
Finally, to say that Municipality as it has been exposed and the self-management of this by its own neighbors under a system of direct election of its political representatives.
They are the fundamental bases for the formation a true formal democracy in Spain on the one hand, and on the other, for a more just redistribution of our economic resources.
So that it is the own Spanish town, that can govern the destinies of its nation.
Mayor, congratulations and many thanks to all.
