translated from Spanish: Ricardo Monreal provides clipping thousand 500 million pesos in the Senate

during the morning of Wednesday the President-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, along with Ricardo Monreal, near Morena Coordinator in the Senate, held a breakfast with Senators elected announcing a possible reduction of more than a thousand 500 million pesos of the legislative branch budget.
Was Ricardo Monreal Avila, who explained that, even without that approved the measure to sent on wages and privileges in the Senate, they will begin to act on the issue, which intend to reduce the budget of the legislative branch, of the Chamber of Senators, by 30%.
Next the bed morenoite Coordinator explained that in the current budget, organs of direction of the Senate have already raised to finance 5 thousand 200 million pesos, “but we believe that applying a deep austerity policy we could decrease more than a thousand “500 million pesos and thus we want to raise it to the next Secretary of the Treasury, to 2019 the Senate budget provides for this reduction”.
It added that without putting at risk the current workings of the thousand 400 million pesos that remain for the exercise of the budget for the year underway, be saved when less 500 million pesos, which are already made corresponding financial runs.
“This is an agreement that was reached jointly and to detail it formed a Commission headed by José Antonio Álvarez Lima,” he added.
He explained that measures must be taken to achieve marked reductions as the Elimination of the policy of insurance of medical expenses higher as of September 1, as well as the insurance of individual separation and fund savings for officials. Also the complement of bonus will be cancelled and stimuli will be suspended by concept of evaluation and performance.
They also plan to cancel supports such as gasoline, phones, automobile, power, that will reduce the ceiling of recruitment of staff from senators and committees, staff of fees, as well as the number of commissions and travel abroad, among other measures.
After explaining this, Ricardo Monreal said that they eventually the excesses and privileges and eco-called for public authorities, autonomous bodies, institutions, municipalities, local congresses and public universities to decrease the cost of the Government for the benefit of the population.
Finally, he emphasized that a special effort will be made to achieve a consensus with the rest of the political forces represented in the Senate of the Republic, by privileging dialogue.
During their turn at the microphone Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged the austerity program and reiterated that during his tenure it there will be a real independence of powers.
“We are going to be very respectful, I sold it to saying, there will actually be an authentic rule of law, there will be independence, autonomy powers, division and balance of powers; It will not be the executive authorities ‘power’ “, said the President-elect.
After hearing presented by Monreal savings plan, the Tabasco said: “I have no more than express, this will be the speech, possibly, more sober, more austere, more short of those who have said in recent times, just thank you very much, say that this support Yes” It is”.
 

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