Just one request and one question per councilor, this will be the new regulations of the Plenary Session of CórdobaMANUEL MURILLO
Just a request and a question per councilor. That is one of the most notable novelties of the new organic regulation of the plenary session of Cordova that drives the People’s Party and wants to initially approve at the end of July. The current one, a compendium of rules that regulate the operation of plenary sessions, dates back to 2008 and was approved with 15 votes in favor of IU and PSOE.
The popular spokesperson, Miguel Ángel Torrico, explained yesterday that it is “an important modification” and that The objective is to adapt the regulations to the new legal and technological framework. «It’s about trying to make them full with much more content of interest and more agile», summarized the PP councilor. The proposal, in fact, goes through limit the number of requests and questions raised by opposition councilors to the municipal government on issues related to the management or progress of municipal projects. These requests and questions are made in the last part of the plenary session and in this mandate they are especially dilating, lasting more than two hours on average. The usual criticism of the municipal government is that the opposition reiterates in the plenary hall issues that have already been discussed in the permanent commissions, while the complaints of the opposition result in the lack of responses from the government team to the requests and questions that put to them, either in writing or in voice.
Image of the Plenary Session of Córdoba.
A request and an oral question by councilor
Specifically, the PP proposes that the prayers (the formulation of a proposal for action) and the questions (any issue raised to governing bodies) orals are limited to one per councilorly that there be a maximum of three requests and questions written by the mayor. The regulations currently in force do not include any limitations on the number of oral questions that opposition groups can raise with the government. In this way, it would go from an unlimited number of requests and questions that can be asked currently, to a maximum of 14 requests and 14 questions (so many councilors there are in the opposition) per session which would reduce the average time of plenary sessions.
Other modifications proposed are the elimination of the possibility of appointing non-elected members of the local government board and the section referring to the development of plenary sessions and debates has been revised.
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