Gloria Silvia Orellana
@Editorial DiarioCoLatino
“What I want is for the mayor of San Salvador (Mario Durán) to let the poor people sell in the center,” asked José Elías, a street vendor who carries all his merchandise in his arms, including screws, padlocks, keys and tongs, which he offers daily in the streets of the Historic Center of San Salvador.
The new 44 municipal councils that will be elected next Sunday, March 3, and that will take office on May 1, have shown off at the closing of the campaign with sunrises, community cinema, flags, key chains, caps and aprons in search of the vote which turns them into popularly elected public officials. Oros, offered “parties” with renowned orchestras, such as Nuevas Ideas, in Santa Tecla.
The festivals at the end of the electoral campaign were an option as in San Miguel. The Nuevas Ideas parties and the PDC celebrated with concerts; and in Santa Tecla the official party also celebrated the closing with a festival in the Plaza de la Cultura.
However, the population seems not very enthusiastic about voting, like Francisco López, who came to the holy mass in the Metropolitan Cathedral. “I don’t want to go to vote because they don’t respect the vote, they didn’t respect the opinion,” he said, mentioning all the news of the irregularities during the voting closing process and the recount to elect the new legislature that will dominate the official party. New Ideas, in the presidential and parliamentary elections.
“If I decide to vote, I will do so so that it is difficult for them to do all that business of counting votes again like with the deputies. “Where people were deceived in the most savage and shameless way,” López reiterated.
Meanwhile, the candidates for San Salvador-Centro, such as Mayor Alejandro Nochez, of Ayutuxtepeque, who tried to talk to the vendors about his work platform, but was expelled by a CAM agent, from the Mayor’s Office of San Salvador, who did not He listened to his arguments that if he became mayor of San Salvador Centro, this would be part of the territory to be administered.
This led him to report it on the social network This motivates me to continue working,” Nochez reaffirmed.
Which filled the current administration of the Nuevas Ideas party, in San Salvador Centro, chaired by Mario Durán, with criticism from the followers of Mayor Nochez.
On the other hand, Simón Paz, for the FMLN party, councilor of the municipal government of Mejicanos, carried out a mega day of visits to municipal markets and popular neighborhoods such as La Málaga and Santa Marta, in San Salvador Centro.
The proposal of Simón Paz, who was mayor for the FMLN party, his campaign proposal was to “create a social fabric and Consultative Council for Citizenship San Salvador Centro”, which specified that it would be made up of people with a lot of experience from the municipalities of Ayutuxtepeque, Mexicans, San Marcos, San Salvador, Santo Tomas and Santiago Texacuangos
The Citizens’ Consultative Council for the municipality of San Salvador Centro will be an instrument that will help strengthen the administrative exercise and bring transparency to municipal works, Paz announced, when he launched his electoral proposal during his campaign that closed on Sunday with a caravan through the streets of San Salvador.
Simón Paz pointed out at that time that the municipality of San Salvador Centro involved working for 1 million 58 thousand people, a “big challenge”, but he considered that his 6 years of experience in the commune of Mejicanos gave him a wide margin over the management of this new municipality of 6 districts.
For the official party, Nuevas Ideas, Mario Durán seeks re-election for San Salvador-Centro, and who is awarded the revitalization of the Historic Center, along with the recovery of the streets of San Salvador, through the eviction of around 6 thousand street vendors without offering them a place to market their merchandise. And the remodeling of the Historic Center is the work of the Executive.
The revitalization of the Historic Center includes nearby corridors and phase 2, the section of Rubén Darío Avenue, Arce Street, Morazán Avenue and the 1st and 3rd North Avenues. That adds up to 36 blocks without informal sales.
Durán, before being mayor, was Minister of the Interior of the government of President Nayib Bukele, and when he worked for the first time, in the municipality he was a councilor of the Mayor’s Office of San Salvador (2015-2018), as director of Municipal Development, in his membership of the FMLN.
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