/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-infobae.s3.amazonaws.com/public/DJ3RNOVZGBFFBF24XEWFAOKS7Q.jpg "López Obrador will lower wages and eliminate bonuses from his government to fight the coronavirus")
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, presented this Sunday your economic emergency program to face the coronavirus pandemic, what so far it has left 79 deaths and 1,890 positive cases And it has become one of the crucial challenges for the president since he began his six-year term in late 2018.
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The Mexican president, from the National Palace, announced that he will apply republican austerity with more rigor in his government and therefore will lower the salaries of high public officials and will remove the bonuses from the position of deputy directors even that of the president himself.
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“In this transitory crisis it’s up to everyone to do their part“, Said the Tabasco, that for the preventive measures against COVID-19 offered his report, one of the most important and expected of his mandate, without the presence of his cabinet or special guests, not even the presence of his wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller.
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The government’s economic measures also include the reduction of advertising expenses, per diem expenses and operating expenses. “You will save on purchases from suppliers and the costs of public works with consulting and service companies,” he explained.
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But, despite the intensification of one of his most emblematic policies, the President stressed that “there will be no dismissal of state service workers at any level“, But they will demand” more efficiency, delivery, spirit of service and total honesty.
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The measures of the Mexican government against the coronavirus
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The president specified a series of measures to carry out what he called “economic reactivation” of the country. The Tabasco summarized them as the sum of three basic elements: “greater public investment for development, full employment and honesty and republican austerity”.
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Among the main ones is the creation of a 35,000 million fund from the ISSSTE (Institute of Security and Social Services for State Workers), to grant personal loans of between 20,000 and 56,000 pesos for the benefit of 670,000 workers at the service of the state.
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Also, the Infonavit (Institute of the National Housing Fund for Workers) and the Fovissste will allocate 177,000 million pesos to grant housing loans during these nine months for the benefit of 442,500 workers. This, in turn, will generate 270,000 new jobs.
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