Full initially approved the budget 2017 marked by financial expenses

Dénia City Council held an extraordinary plenary session Wednesday to approve initially the 2017 municipal budgets. The government team, made up of PSPV and Compromís, has had the support of the Podemos and GDCU councilors, while both Ciudadanos and the Popular Party have abstained from voting.

Although Citizens said that these budgets have had "greater transparency and participation than other years", the municipal group has not supported the document, abstaining from voting. Its councilor, Sergio Benito, has affirmed that they have lacked movement, on the part of the local council, to get the Generalitat to take over the management of the Santa Lucía Residence for the Elderly, a center that has a cost of 1,5 million euros per year for municipal coffers.

Otherwise GDCU has been to a very critical group to the document however has supported. Councilor Miguel Llobell regretted that have been submitted in form but not in time, and that has not been followed by a new budget line. Llobell said that "it is observed that they are not budgets with a social aspect where their financing has been considerably increased", Referring to aid school canteen. He has also denounced the decrease in the budget of Civil Protection, which fell by 13%, and the increase has been made in batches of productivity in the chapter staff.

For its part, the Popular Party has expressed surprise that the group will support a document Compromís "in which the fiscal pressure on citizens has not been reduced by a penny", since years ago, the councilor Josep Crespo "He did not vote in favor of any issue that meant an increase for single-euro citizens".