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The right is using the wrenching economic crisis to dismantle the scaffolding of our democratic system.
His message is clear: the city councils are a fancy expensive municipalities left over, leftover councilors.
For Jose Francisco Bellod, Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Murcia, "the official data do not support this claim."
According to an article on his blog, our municipalism is pretty cheap.
Cheap, one might even say.
"Something different is that it can reorganize to be more fair and efficient," he explains.
According to data provided by the Ministry of Finance, spending on municipal governing bodies (the program budget where the cost is accounted Municipal Corporation) amounted to a meager 2.52% of total budgeted expenditure in 2011.
In the councils of the region, still less, as the expenditure is 1.80% of the total.
Therefore, "remove councilors fail to control the public deficit."
First, because, according to these official data, spending on government bodies is 0.12% of GDP, while the deficit closed 2011 with a -8.9% of GDP.
This means that 1% to reduce the deficit "should be eliminated all councilors and mayors of all Spain up to eight times."
Moreover, maintaining all municipal governing bodies costs 26 euros per person per year in Spain.
This figure drops to 17 euros in the region.
So why is this direct attack?
Very easy, because if you reduce the number of councilors in corporations, political groups will be affected minority groups, what exactly are the least paid money to not be part of the government team.
Moreover, in many cases do their work without receiving a single euro, remaining time to his work, his family or his well-earned rest.
Therefore, from the economic standpoint, the attack does not hold municipalism.
Only have a high cost in terms of democratic quality.
Thing different is that financial effects could organize things differently.
"There is often a gap between the means of justification available to the ruling political party and opposition groups," explains Bellod, something that undermines democratic control that they have commissioned.
There are also some tolerable inequalities between large cities and small towns or among agricultural and other richer.
In conclusion, our local democracy will be improved, but it certainly is very economical.
So, as Professor Bellod, "which look for another excuse to expoliarnos this piece of our battered democracy."
Source: IURM
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