The president of the organization, Miracle Navas, has reported at a press conference that the government is breaking the law by not moving the $ 288 million Fades 2020 arrears.
The president of the Corporation of Municipalities of the Republic of El Salvador (COMURES), Miracle Navas, explained this Friday in a press conference that the director of COMURES plans to travel to the United States to request support from the US Senate for the government to comply with the payment of Funds for Economic and Social Development (Fucking), which owes them for 7 months.
December ended and the Ministry of Finance did not transfer the $ 288 million of the Fodes that owes them to the mayors since last year, when this obligation is by law, so also the mayor of Santa Tecla , Roberto d’Aubuisson, of ARENA, noted that the government is committing a crime.
The mayors affiliated in COMURES externaron that the Minister of Finance, Alejandro Zelaya, has external that he prefers to pay the external debt before the Fodes, that this obligation is not his priority.
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“We are prioritizing expenses, we have said we will not stop paying external debt and fall into a default to pay the Fuck. We also have suppliers without payment, we have several situations that we have to solve …”, the Minister of Finance stated this Thursday.
“What Zelaya is admitting is that he is a confessed criminal, because he has publicly admitted that he is worth the law,” said Aubuisson.
The decision of the mayors to raise their annoyance to the US Senate, comes as a result of which several mayors have had to suspend the payment of salaries and suppliers and have failed to comply with community works.
In the east of the country alone, eight communes had to close due to non-payment of the Fodes, the mayors reported.
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“The government cannot enforce the law when it feels like it,” Santa Anna Mayor Milena de Graó said.
According to the deputies, the non-payment and the expressions poured by some civil servants like Zelaya, show that there is “embezzlement of funds” on the part of the government when not fulfilling the obligation to pay the Fuck to the mayors, since the law obliges to the State to transfer 10% of tax revenue to municipalities.
In fact, one of the two vetoes that President Nayib Bukele made on the sources of funding for this year’s general state budget, is on a loan that the Assembly allocated to pay the outstanding Fuck to the localities.