The monthly council meeting in Ronda finally approved a significant and surprising anti-corruption measure that will see the personal financial affairs of all councillors and their spouses made available on the city council website www.ronda.es.
Aiming to exceed national transparency laws and prove to the people of Ronda that the council is committed to transparency, all parties represented in council unanimously approved the motion with the exception of the Izquierda Unida (IU) representative who didn’t attend for personal reasons.
The PSOE spokesperson Francesco Cañestro stated this move is in accordance with an agreement reached at the PSOE regional congress, though residents shouldn’t be too excited about getting to know all of their councillors private lives. The vote only provides for publicly available information to be published on the council website.
Ronda’s mayor Antonio Marín Lara described the motion as a triumph for the people of Ronda, and said the aim is to make publicly available information easy to access from a single page instead of requiring multiple visits to official offices.
The Partido Popular’s (PP) whilst voting in favour of the motion also warned that this measure may have a double purpose. Spokesperson Mari Paz Fernandez hoped the motion wouldn’t be used against councillors, citing a current investigation against the IU for irregular donations to the party as cause for concern.
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