The Councillor for Citizen Participation, Juan Carrion Tudela says that members of the Socialist Party can not ensure that he has been the council that has lowered the municipal investment in development cooperation, "because in 2000 the Socialists only allocated 72,000 euros in the budget, 8,000 euros less than now. "
The mayor explains city coffers are still available 80,000 euros for investment in development cooperation this year.
Carrion stressed that the government has had to lower the municipal investment due to the economic crisis, but despite the situation "is still injects more money than when they ruled, so they are not best placed to discuss the issue."
The mayor explains, through a comparison of investment in the Department for Development Cooperation, which in 2004 was allocated € 120,000 in 2005, 150,000 euros in 2006, 155,000 euros and 170,000 euros last year.
On the other hand, the socialist party Carrión asks how they know the amount to be allocated to associations in the budgets of 2009 if not yet developed, so they "can not say that it will record huge sales."
