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Councillor for Citizen Participation and Neighborhood Relations Cieza City Council emphasizes the importance of this event starting on Friday September 16 at 19:00 in the Auditorium of the IES Diego Tortosa.

Thursday appeared at a press conference the head of Citizen Participation and Neighborhood Relations in the municipality of Cieza, Nerea Martinez, to report that his delegation begins the political course with the realization of a 'Open Days on Participatory Budgeting' which will take place 16 and 17 September in the IES Diego Tortosa in the locality.

Martinez explained that these days involve the launch of one of the items on the 'Government Agreement' and 'one of the biggest bets of the government team and this council in particular: the Participatory Budgeting process.

A process that has a large institutional support after a joint motion of all political groups for the elaboration of participatory budgets for 2017, with a commitment to implement this process for deciding been approved at the regular full last June, initially the fate of a representative of the municipal budget investments "percentage.

The edila stressed that "the main purpose of the participatory budget is inserted into the annual budgetary cycle direct-democratic procedures so that decisions are not taken only in the political and technical level, but the population, through a process discussions and consultations, whoever determine and decide the fate of a portion of the costs, and where and when to make investments and what are the priorities, ie, participatory budgeting talk about money, but also new opportunities for participation, deepening democratic local life, to participate to decide ".

Nerea Martinez has stated that to implement this complex process is necessary to start with that information days to publicize what are participatory budgeting and bring the process to the residents of Cieza.

Therefore the aim of these open days is to know how they have developed participatory budgeting projects in other municipalities and start building from the experience.

Thus, the conference, organized in collaboration with the Collective PreparacCión, begin on Friday September 16 at 19:00 in the auditorium of the IES Diego Tortosa with first-person account of experiences in other municipios.La opening speech will run by Liberto Carratalá expert methodologies participatory budgeting and member of PreparacCión, a group that works with the City of Cieza in the design process to later give way to a table experiences of participatory budgeting which will involve representatives of two municipalities that are taking place at present these experiences, particularly Aspe and Molina de Segura, who will present their projects participatory budgets and proceed to a round of consultations and questions where attendees can answer your questions.

As for the speakers, there will be Jonatan Molina, Councillor for Citizen Participation Aspe, municipality where the participatory budgeting process began in 2015;

Antonio Saez, president of the Federation of Neighborhood Associations Interbarrios of Molina de Segura, a member of the team that led participatory budgeting in the municipality, and Jose Molina, chairman of Transparency Murcia. "As for Saturday 17 we have called this second part of the conference 'Building our participatory budgeting in Cieza and dynamic workshops on participatory budgeting'.

From 11 am different and dynamic workshops will be held with attendees.

The main objective of these workshops is to start defining between the neighbors what we want participatory budget Cieza.

They will be workshops therefore future scenarios that will work in groups, with pooled the results of each group, "explained Martínez.Finalmente, the Councillor for Citizen Participation has encouraged the residents of the municipality to attend both individually and as members and representatives of groups, associations and local entities "and we invite you to start and join together to design this new democratic process that starts in our municipality."

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cieza