## 3 Results
### Information about the Opposition  
In relation to the indicator on whether the heads of communication of the municipalities should also report on the opposition, the discussion group participants were clearly reticent. On this matter, for some of the participants their starting point is that they work to inform about the government and not about the council in general:  
_\"When we work on municipal government information, we obviously provide information and also an assessment of the institutional figure. The institutional figure, in my case, is the mayor and then the council, and so on. Yes, we do make one small point. We provide a space in a weekly magazine that we have in which, once a month, the parties have a space to contribute what they think. That contribution is made by them\"._  
(Technical Director of Communication)  
They also noted that, in addition, the public has all the information regarding the activity of the plenary sessions on the council website:\"We publish the complete minutes of all government bodies in which criticisms, questions, requests and the such like are included. (... ) However, I've always refused to post the opposition news on the website. At the beginning what I told them is that you had to explain who the opposition is, to prove with a photo, a cv or email and direct them with a link to their website, since they have a website and a blog\"._  
(Head of Communication and Press)  
In this respect, they reinforce the idea that transparent information on management is provided on council websites but that the news section managed by press offices is based on government information and that the opposition already has their own sites to disseminate information:  
\"From the point of view of the public, I think that they must be provided information on all this, on the administration, of course, on what those who govern do and also on what those who don't govern do, say or criticize. (... ) The opposition participate in certain collegiate bodies and have an opinion, in the plenary, in the plenary commissions, present motions in the district boards, etcera. (... ) It doesn't seem a bad idea to me to have a space on the website, but I also think that nowadays it's not very relevant from the public's point of view. The political parties themselves or the opposition itself already have more than enough means, much broader than the council website itself, to communicate these criticisms. They have their own press office, news, they have their own website, they have Facebook, Twitter\". (Director of Modernization and Quality)  
In addition, they state that the public is already clearly aware that news posted on municipal websites focuses on highlighting the good management of the government and that they act as communication offices of the mayor's office:  
\"Because citizens who are interested already know how to get to the opposition's critical news. What is understood by a further step to facilitate public knowledge from the council website itself? Well, you can't say no. Maybe access is better for the public, but I don't think it corresponds to a real need. That, in fact, I think, they already do that. There's no need to even wait for the debate on the state of the town, there's something similar to the state debate in the municipality. People look for those interviews that are already more in newspapers than on city council websites and they serve to find out the opinion of the opposition leader\". (Director of Modernization and Quality)  
They state that the public wants the information to be related more to the services provided by the city council than about the public debate between government and opposition:  
\"It would lose credibility in the face of the public (... ) What the public wants is to be told that if their street is dirty it will be cleaned quickly, that who knows how much has been invested into improving the pavements and the trees or that to submit such paperwork you have to go there and do it this way.