The former director of the National Administration of State Water Works (OSE) for him Broad Front and current candidate for senator, Edgardo Ortuño, pointed out the authorities of the state company as responsible for the critical financial situation that the company is going through, according to the warning Office of Planning and Budget (OPP).
The OPP warned about “significant diversions” in the cash register OSE regarding the financial execution of the first four months of the year. With this background situation, the director of the state agency, Fernando Blanco, He warned the president of the public company, Raul Montero, that it is necessary to “take measures” to “reduce expenses” and not make new “increases”, with the aim of balancing the figures for the second half of the year, “reducing the projected deficit and the need for financing”.
Asked about this by Radio Carve, Ortuño said that the situation that the OPP is now aware of is in line with what he himself denounced when he left the board of directors. OSE to dedicate himself to the campaign as a senator from the Artiguista slope, of which he is a leader.
For the Frente Amplio party member, the crisis in the public company is the result of a mistaken policy developed by the authorities, which aims, fundamentally, at reducing the number of employees and, therefore, at outsourcing various services that have increased costs.
“Today the OPP itself, of this government, is highlighting a deficit very important and worrying of the accounts of OSE due to the increase in personal hiring and the “outsourcing”, He said, adding that since the current board of directors came in, 25% of the workforce, approximately 1,100 employees, has been lost.
“During the administration, a policy of investment cuts and budget adjustments was developed, and now, in an election year, an attempt is being made to reverse this situation, with an injection of resources that also impacts the imbalance of the accounts and generates a very significant debt, which leaves OSE in a critical financial situationand which practically constitutes a time bomb for the next government, with a level of indebtedness that amounts to two and a half times the income of “OSE”, Ortuño emphasized.
The former director of the public company estimates that it has a deficit of 200 million dollars to date, which will become 400 million dollars if the agreement is completed. Arazatí project. In turn, the indebtedness This would amount to 1.5 billion dollars, a debt that would have to be paid by the next government and which would put at risk the development of essential water and sanitation works.
Optimism for the elections of the Frente Amplio
The leader of the Vertiente Artiguista also referred to the National Convention of the Broad Front which took place on Saturday at the The Galpón Theatre, in which the program of the eventual government of the left-wing coalition and the presidential formula that will compete in October were confirmed, as a “very positive” convention.
“This is a program that aims to transform the Uruguay for the benefit of the vast majority of the population. The priorities are for the country to return to growth in a development perspective, with improvements in the quality of life of the population, and with a strong emphasis on the return of a government that is distinguished by honesty in its procedures and in its way of governing,” said Ortuño.
He also pointed out that the country requires a change of government since the current one “has not solved the main problems of the country and the people, has not fulfilled the electoral promises made five years ago, and has also been involved in scandals successive links to facts of corruption”.
For the remainder of the campaign, the Broad Front He will visit all the departments, focusing on regaining contact with the people, which has been lost mainly in the interior of the country. “We will carry out a campaign with a lot of closeness and a lot of presence in the territories,” said Ortuño.
Source: Ambito
