Xàbia, along with other 12 municipalities of the Marina Alta has adhered to the will of the Minister of Transparency, Social Responsibility, Participation and Cooperation, Manuel Alcaraz, of the Code of Good Government of the Generalitat with which he wants to demonstrate a more transparent management and good governance to fulfill its responsibility towards citizenship.
For Alcaraz, signing this code supposes "a brake on abuses of power and an instrument to monitor the action of public representatives". The conseller has stressed that if the consistories comply with these agreements and be integrated into the day to day, "relations with citizens would be more friendly, calm and based on trust and respect."
In the act several consistories of the Marina Alta participated as Gata de Gorgos, El Verger, Dénia, Ondara, Ràfol d'Almúnia, Xaló, Orba, Els Poblets, Parcent, Pego, Benissa, Xàbia and Pedreguer.
The Code of Good Governance combines clearly legal norms with criteria of conduct, democratic values and ethical principles such as integrity, sobriety, exemplariness, responsibility and cooperation, raising them to mandatory compliance by senior officials of the Council and public sector instrumental and of all those who voluntarily adhere to it.
