mayor of Alicante luis barcala, planted Alicante NGOs this Tuesday by not going to the signing of the agreement “for an internationally cooperative public policy”. a document that signed during the last campaign and that it failed once in government by cutting the budget for that purpose. Who signed up José Luis Berenguer from Ciudadanos, despite bipartisan sniping in areas governed by his party.
This ONGD Valencia Coordinator organized the signing of the agreement this Tuesday in which all entities represented in the City Council participated (PSOE, Citizens, United Podem – Esquerra Unida and Compromís) except Popular Party and Vox. An agreement signed simultaneously in Valencia and Castelló, in which PP also participated.
In the capital of Alicante, the most notorious absence – though foreseeable – was that of the mayor: First time absence of the mayor’s representative As the representative of the coordinator noted, since this cooperation agreement was signed.
Barcala, which has signed a gradual increase in the cooperation budget in the 2019 campaign, cut the budget for these areas When he established the municipal government. Partners in full charge of the Equality and Cooperation Units during these four years, yes they re-signed the documentbut his spokesperson was on the scene (had to share the uncomfortable empty chair with Barcala) went fast avoiding subsequent media attention.
Among the commitments made by the different powers, the cooperation “by the municipal government” a stable public policywith technical and economic resources”, a gradual budget increase Up to 0.7% of the total is set aside before 2030, promoting “education for global citizenship and fair trade” and “promoting the improvement of the quality of management and accountability of municipal policy”.