The mayor of Soyapango says that until the Constitution is reformed, assigning the Fodes is an obligation of president.
While the President of the Republic continues to suspend the funds that by law correspond to the mayors and when he threatens to veto the budget allocation that the Legislature made to municipalities, several mayors expose a tight situation in their territories, which until and everything threatens to paralyze operations and suspend projects for the benefit of their localities.
The mayor of Soyapango, Juan Pablo Álvarez, states that his municipality is indebted to $ 8 million due to the lack of funds, and that the incomplete payment of the fund within the budget, would continue to affect the municipal projects and programs.
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“As long as the Constitution is not changed he (Bukele) is required by law, if he does (remove the Fuck from the budget) it is most likely that he will end up prosecuted at the end of his term. It seems that if he does not he (works) no one else can do it, he wants to centralize everything, ”says the Soyapango councilor.
He adds that at least 15 mayoralties are going through a difficult situation as they do not have the Fodes and that it is the population affected by stopped projects.
“Since he (Bukele) has confessed, it is most likely that we will put a warning (to the prosecution) against the president in view that he publicly admits that he is behind all this against local governments,” Alvarez says. .
The mayor of Santa Tecla, Roberto d’Aubuisson, clarifies that the Fodes goes for social works of infrastructure, scholarships, municipal clinics, nurseries, for the benefit of the population, are not funds that go to the mayors.
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“No one knows the needs of a population better than a mayor, because he is the official closest to the population. What the president (Bukele) is manifesting this (that money is lost in mayors) shows total ignorance of the function of what the mayors do and that’s worrying because he was mayor and at the time he was one of those who was fighting for the Fodes fund to be transferred when he was a month behind, and now he’s seven months behind. ” , exposes d’Aubuisson.
For her part, the Dean of Economics at ESEN, Carmen Aída Llaç, points out that the Executive has no room for maneuver to determine the percentage allocated to mayors, because it is a law that must be complete.
You need to see plans for public works
On Sunday, December 27, the government announced that next year the entire public works budget will be executed in just 4 months and that with the arrival of a new Assembly, which they hope will be favorable, it will manage new resources for projects.
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“I don’t see it feasible for the times they have shown in the execution. They don’t seem to keep their promises, the same was said of the hospital (El Salvador) and the bridge (Chichilco). The evidence in history shows us that they are too optimistic about the periods of execution of public works “, said Llaç with respect to the announcement.