translated from Spanish: Governments of Uruapan and Tacámbaro, in favour of participatory budgeting

Uruapan, Michoacan.-the municipal Presidents of Tacámbaro and Uruapan, Salvador Barrera Medrano and Victor Manríquez González, pronounced that Michoacán has a law of participatory budget, as Deputy Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla proposes to ensure that communities and colonies are not marginalized from the development of the municipalities, thus reported it in a statement.
In meetings with municipal authorities and heads of both municipalities tenure, Ramirez Bedolla explained that the essential of his initiative approach is that at least 15 per cent of municipal discharges is destined to the participatory budgeting; i.e., that the inhabitants of holdings and communities can determine the fate of that resource, and to follow up on your application.
In meeting with heads of tenure of Caltzontzin, Jicalán, San Lorenzo, Angahuan, new Zirosto, Santa Ana, Jucutacato and Capacuaro, the Secretary of the city of Uruapan, Jesus Torres Santoyo, it manifested itself in favour of participatory budgeting, but it proposed that law is specified hierarchy of priorities to ensure that public resources be invested in public infrastructure and services with high social impact.
Akin to the fourth transformation Deputy added that his initiative of law, largely, is intended to benefit the indigenous peoples of the State, since their forms of community organization would allow the implementation of budgets participatory; “in addition, originating communities are which hold major lag in public infrastructure, so it should participate in the definition of the destination of the resources that the City Council invests in work”, he stressed.
The Mayor of Tacambaro coincided with the heads of tenure of the municipality in which the creation of a National Committee of participative budget will encourage strategic investment, transparent processes of allocation and implementation of works, as well as optimizing the exercise of public resources.
Finally, Ramirez Bedolla told heads of tenure of Uruapan, once integrated the participatory budget law initiative, shall be subject to consultation citizen before submitting it to the State Congress.

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