Both the government opposition and members of the Multicolor Coalitionquestioned the budget increase to the Mixed Technical Commission (CTM) of big jump for 200 million pesos, to which the Minister of Economy, Azucena Arbeleche, justified the portfolio’s decision by establishing that they already had a fixed budget since 2015 and it was a “reinforcement”.
Yesterday, during the session of the Budget Committee integrated with Tax authorities of the Senate the first delegation of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) where the advances in economic matters were marked during the penultimate year of the management of Luis Lacalle Pou. On the other hand, the government’s decision to increase the budget by 200 million pesos to the Mixed Technical Commission of Salto Grande.
The demands of the opposition and the ruling party
The first to receive criticism was the president of the institution, Carlos Albisu, who, according to the senator for the Broad Front, Alexander Sanchez, “He should have left a long time ago.” “Salto Grande has become a den of political clientelism protected by the President of the Republic (Luis Lacalle Pou) and the Minister of Ministry of Economy and Finance. And what is sadder is that, when the Foreign Minister is consulted, he laughs at the Uruguayans and does not answer, ”said Sánchez.
The Broad Front will determine this week if it calls Albisu to court or interpellation due to his management. From the opposition they understand that the MEF due to the increase in the budget Chancellery – because it is a body shared with Argentina – and at the same time Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining already whatthat it is an energy policy and has a link with National Administration of Electric Power Plants and Transmissions (UTE).
For its part, the budget increase also resonated with the pro-government bench. The senator for Open Town Hall, Guillermo Domenech, established in a press conference that the budgetary reinforcement to the CTM caught his attention and assured that the government must be transparent in expenses. “There are multiple needs in various sectors of national activity, and apart from being careful with the use of money, it seems good to me that the population has accurate and reliable information on what is being spent,” he established.
In addition, the white senator, Sergio Botana, He told La Diaria that it is necessary to draw up a separate statute for this body that is shared with Argentina. “big jump It is outside the legal jurisdiction of our country, a separate statute governs there. Therefore, that is the first thing we have to finish, and for that I hope there is political will on the part of the FA”, remarked Botana.
The explanation of the MEF and the CTM
Faced with the claims of Senate, The Minister of Economy assured that the budget increase occurs because it has not been updated since 2015 and is precisely a reinforcement. “As far as the MEF is concerned, it was a item reinforcementsince the budget was fixed since 2015. That is, there was no royal increase, but a fixed budget was adjusted. Regarding the management or destination of these resources, it is not something that is the responsibility of the MEF”, said the minister.
For his part, the president of the CTM, assured El País that the organization has an annual item of 744 million pesos that has not been updated since 2015 and that UTE contributes another 200 million. In this sense, he clarified that those who asked for more money were the directors of the broad front when they were part of the Uruguayan delegation of CTM asking for 256 million pesos in 2017.
Regarding the questioning of increase in officialsAlbisu assured that it was at the time of the pandemic that Argentine employees could not enter the Uruguay, so 30 more people had to be hired as security personnel. On the other hand, he added that the CTM invested more than 57 million pesos in social responsibility last year with the aim of promoting regional development and the Scientific and Technological Educational Pole Opened in September 2020.
Source: Ambito
