In the Encuentro interview with Julio Villagrán, the councilor of the Mayor’s Office of Mejicanos, Simón Paz expressed that there is no opening for the population of Mejicanos to know what the funds that come from the tax rates, the municipal fraction, have been invested in. of the FMLN have requested that all information on municipal activities be provided, but the municipality is not transparent with municipal funds.
“In Mexicans there was an excessive increase in rates, without having done a real study, without having made a consultation, in the long run there were increases of up to more than 150%, the population expressed their concern”said the former mayor of Mejicanos.
For the councilor, the reduction of municipalities was an electoral strategy that had no basis, nor were there technical studies, nor were there consultations about it, to know if the population really wanted this to happen. Now the new municipal governments will have to face new problems.
“The problem that is going to be assumed by municipal governments that exist that did not have the vision or the capacity or clarity of the task that they assumed 3 years ago, if mayors had been appointed with the clarity of the task that they assumed, we would not have problems… I believe “It would be a bad message to start the administration with that step of destroying and laying off employees in the different districts.”expressed the councilor of the Mayor’s Office of Mejicanos.
For the districts that will make up the municipality of San Salvador Centro, the scenario they will face is uncertain; it is not known the amount of debt that exists in each of the districts, nor the municipal finances that were declared in reserve for seven years.
“We do not know for sure the amount of debt that remains in the districts that are going to make up San Salvador Centro… We do not know how the finances are or the debts that we have, they went to the extreme of denying us the minutes of the construction council and the minutes must to be public because that is where the work of the municipality is reflected.”said Paz.