Ministries of Economy, Agriculture and Housing, Ombudsman, moon angel, conveys grievance files, information requirements or considered decisions. According to the statistics available on the website of the regional ombudsman, the Ministry of Treasury and Justice follows the Consell departments that are most meticulous in sharing information. These statistics refer to files already closed between 1 January 2022 and today.
In local governments, El Campello and Aspe are the most opaque, followed by Orihuela, Torrevieja, Benidorm and Santa Pola. These data only confirm the long condemnation of Luna. lack of transparency It is a fact that causes many complaints from council members and citizens due to the fact that consultations and information are not transparent. In this sense, the institution received more than 200 protests from council members who could not reach the documents.
not the answer
The Ministry of Economy did not give a single reply to the Ombudsman. It did not cooperate in any of the 26 complaints that were closed. Moreover, in four of them, he did not respond to either requests for information from the ombudsman or their opinion. Management. The second position is occupied by Agriculture, which cooperated in only one of the twenty complaints filed by Luna, meaning it did not cooperate in 95% of the cases presented to it. The podium was closed by Vivienda, who was uncooperative in 31 of 47 complaints representing two-thirds of the total. Among the top three ranks, the Treasury ranks fourth. In six cases out of ten closed complaints, 60% of cases did not cooperate. Justice after the Treasury, which of the 53 complaints out of 19 files did not cooperate, 36%.
After these five departments, there are three other ministries that generate the most complaints in terms of the sectors they address: Equality, Education and Health. However, there is a big difference between them. area volume Aitana Mas, vice president of Generalitat, and two others. Equality is the one that has received the largest number of complaints ever reported by citizens to the Ombudsman. However, their failure to cooperate with the ombudsman barely exceeds 10%.
Equality did not cooperate in 90 out of a total of 800 grievances closed, representing 11.25% of the total. Education accumulates 197 closed complaint files, 19 of which is 9.64% of the total amount, with which it does not cooperate. Finally, there are 176 closed complaints with which Health did not cooperate with 24 complaint files, which is 13.64% of the total. Ministries of Regional Policy, Innovation and Transparency, institution statisticsbecause they did not receive citizen complaints.
In this context, it should be noted that the conflicts between the Ombudsman and Equality were highly publicized, especially during the period when former Vice-President Mónica Oltra was in charge of the ministry. The institutional relationship has improved a lot with the replacement of Mas. test statement of intent The reason Crevillentina rerouted the deal was because one of the first meetings she had after comforting Oltra was with Luna herself. Despite this change of course, the Ombudsman gave Equality a new setback a few weeks ago, accusing the Ministry once again of obstructing one of its investigations, alleging a day care facility.
local assets
Apart from Consell’s divisions, El Campello and Aspe take the cake in regards to the state’s local units. ten of the municipality of l’Alacantí complaint files closed and in no case did not cooperate. The same general assembly reaches Aspe in its case with eight complaint files. In a similar situation, Orihuela cooperated in only one of the fifteen complaint files she had closed. That is, it did not respond in 93% of cases.
The other major town in Vega Baja, Torrevieja, appears to be the next municipality after Orihuela. The Salt city management team responded to nine of the 21 files, representing 43% of the total. The list continues in Benidorm. In the tourist capital of the Costa Blanca, there was a 40% collaboration with four of the ten files submitted. First positions provincial classification They close with Santa Pola, which stopped responding in a third of the cases: ten out of 29.
The lack of cooperation between ministries and municipalities, which emerged from the statistics on the institution’s website, confirms the long-standing complaints of the Ombudsman, who attacked the administrations for their lack of transparency. «Medium and large municipal buildings cannot be allowed to disregard the basic rules of the functioning of the municipality. democracy“As in the province of Alicante today,” Luna said in her speech at the Municipal Forum organized by INFORMACIÓN at the end of last November.
bone scan
The Ombudsman’s remarks provided an X-ray of the situation currently unfolding in multiple assemblies, where opposition legislators and citizens in general receive silence in response when they request information or make a complaint. This lack of transparency ombudsmanAs well as violating fundamental rights, it jeopardizes even the continuity of the democratic state. “Now democracies die from destruction, permanent disrepute and deterioration in the functioning of governments,” Luna added.
Another of the evils that the Ombudsman always underlines is that when they are in opposition, there are entities that make claims, arguing that government teams put many barriers to providing them with documents and information in order to carry out their duties.power controland when they jumped into government after the election they said they changed their criteria and acted like they condemned it. When asked about progress in this way, the political leaders of the entire color palette gawk at us saying that we must work for transparency and get their hands on all the necessary mechanisms and resources so that mistakes don’t happen. In practice, however, this rubbish is empty.
Mayors in the municipalities of the state’s two most populous cities, Alicante and Elche, Diagnosis. “You have to work to be more transparent,” admits the popular Luis Barcala in Alicante. “We’ve made a leap in transparency in recent years,” adds socialist Carlos González from the city of Elche.
Elda and Alcoy have the best track record.
In terms of transparency, not all is bad news in the province of Alicante. There are municipalities that meticulously fulfill their obligations. These are the states of Elda and Alcoy, municipalities ruled by socialists Rubén Alfaro and Toni Frances, respectively. In the case of the town of Elda, we collaborated on the fifteen files submitted to it that were already closed. Alcoy also arrives at a plenary meeting, with eleven of the eleven cases answered in his case. These data refer to settlements with a population of more than 50,000. Regarding municipalities with a small population, Calp gives a full response.