For this year, the 16 municipalities of Mexico City have a Participatory budget for more than 1,600 million pesos, with the resources it seeks to help improve the environment of the colonies, neighborhoods and original towns, informed the Electoral Institute of Mexico City (IECM).
According to the IECM, the more than 1,600 million pesos correspond to 3.75% of the total budget that the mayors will exercise this year, precisely, of these resources, 50% will be distributed proportionally among all the territorial units and the other half will be established by the Secretariat of Administration and Finance of the Government of Mexico City (according to the criteria of poverty rate, crime incidence, number of inhabitants and floating population).
Regarding the projects that are going to be carried out to improve the demarcations, the institute specified that these are the ones that will be the winners during the 2022 Participatory Budget Consultation.
“It is important that the neighbors of the different territorial units know the amounts that correspond to their neighborhoods, neighborhoods and original towns, by virtue of the fact that the viability of the projects that they register and promote must be technical and financial.”
On how the resources are distributed, the IECM announced that for the Álvaro Obregón mayor’s office the amounts vary from 285,000 to 2 million pesos, corresponding to the towns of Santa Rosa Xochiac and San Bartolo Ameyalco.
In Azcapotzalco, there are also cases of indigenous peoples, such as San Pedro Xalpa, San Martín Xochinahuac and San Juan Tlihuaca, where the amounts exceed 1 million pesos, while in the colonies, they range from 381,000 to more than 900,000 pesos.
For the Cuauhtémoc mayor’s office, the amounts vary between 1.5 and more than 2 million pesos, while Gustavo A. Madero has resources ranging from 400,000 to more than 1.5 million pesos.
In Iztacalco, the lowest amounts are around 900,000 pesos and the highest exceed 2 million; for the Benito Juárez mayor’s office, the budgets range between 800,000 and 2 million.
“Coyoacán has amounts that range from 400,000 to 1.4 million pesos; and in Cuajimalpa, where there are native peoples, the amounts range from 900,000 to more than 4 million; in Milpa Alta, made up of native peoples, the amounts They range from 2.9 to more than 7 million; in Tláhuac and Tlalpan, they range from 300,000 to 2 million; in Venustiano Carranza, from 700,000 to 2.4 million; and in Xochimilco, from 600,000 to 2.9 million,” detailed the IECM.
In Iztapalapa, the amounts range between more than 400,000 and 1.8 million pesos, in Magdalena Contreras, as well as in Miguel Hidalgo, they vary between 700,000 and 2.4 million.
The IECM recalled that the amounts allocated for the 1,800 territorial units can be consulted on the page www.iecm.mx.
“The amounts are available on the microsite enabled by the IECM on its website, with all the information on the Participatory Budget, and those corresponding to the original peoples of the city are also included, where the projects will be chosen through the mechanisms decided by their traditional authorities and its inhabitants, based on their uses and customs”, he deepened.