The 48 Cantons of Totonicapán issued an announcement to touch upon the price range enlargement initiative, initiative 6403 proposed by the Authorities and the Ministry of Finance and which was introduced to the Congress of the Republic.
“We demand that the extraordinary contribution to the departmental improvement councils (Codedes) be corrected, utilizing technical standards to fight poverty, starvation and the inclusion of indigenous peoples, who’re essentially the most weak inhabitants,” they acknowledged.
In accordance with the 48 Cantons, the Authorities introduced a price range enlargement for Q14,451 million by which it included extra assets for the event councils for Q1,675 million.
This enlargement within the Codedes, “doesn’t reply to any technical standards and assigns solely Q39 million to the division of Totonicapán.”
“It’s not attainable for better assets to be assigned to a municipality in comparison with a division as an entire, so this isn’t an accurate allocation, however fairly opaque to the well-being of the folks and denotes political functions,” he famous.
In accordance with the 48 Cantons, the above shouldn’t be regulated, however the criterion of utilizing the constitutional rule to allocate assets has been utilized. “On this case that criterion was modified; “Apparently a political criterion prevails,” they added.
One of many doubts that arises on this initiative, “is that it isn’t widespread to go away unspecified bills within the price range, for instance, within the enlargement there are Q639.3 million for contingencies and Q83 million for contributions for institutional strengthening.”
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“We demand that President Arévalo and the Ministry of Finance, in addition to the Congress of the Republic, change the allocations in response to transparency, the inclusion of indigenous peoples and improvement,” they acknowledged.
The 48 Cantons indicated that the persons are ready “for the actions which can be being carried out and if needed they’ll take motion once more to defend the folks.”
The Ministry of Finance was consulted and Minister Jonathan Menkos indicated: “we respect the opinion of 48 Cantons. We now have despatched a proposal to the Congress of the Republic concerning the extraordinary contribution, which represents section 1 in using the Growth Councils to bolster investments within the territories, particularly in water, sanitation, schooling, well being and rural roads.”
He added that if accepted by Congress, the extraordinary contribution will barely symbolize 1.3% of the full expenditure price range, “so that is solely a complement to the 98.7% of bills and investments which can be executed by the remainder of the establishments and entities.”
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