More because of the recession than because of the health contingency, the governors and mayors of Mexico have had to face unprecedented pressures without the fiscal systems being sufficient to cover essential public services.
During the biennium that is coming to an end, the decrease in income flows – a product of the fall in collections – aggravated the effects of the republican austerity policy implemented by the Fourth Transformation.
The days when public-private partnerships and debt securitization were common will not return. And less, with the warning of the Ministry of Finance to state governments, about excessive indebtedness.
Now, relentlessly, the federalization of the payroll of police officers, teachers and health workers is advancing, while states and municipalities have lost the ability to finance mega-works of infrastructure.
It is the time for the collection of local taxes on elementary public services. In Puebla, 136 mayors and a block of local legislators – who according to unconfirmed versions were advised by former presidential candidate José Antonio Meade Kuribreña – proposed a “right for public lighting”, which would be entered into municipal income laws.
The former state leader of the PRI and president of the Finance Commission, Jorge Estefan Chidiac, was the main promoter of this measure that the inhabitants of the capital of Puebla, San Andrés Cholula and San Pedro Cholula, will not pay.
The Puebla legislators did not ignore the criteria of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation on the DAP, which has been the subject of various unconstitutional actions in which it has been argued that it is materially a tax on the consumption of electricity, same which corresponds to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federation.
However, the DAP would be paid by two out of every three poblanos, but after the closure of the regular session of the LXI Legislature of the local Congress, 136 applications have accumulated, from the same number of municipalities, which now want changes to their laws from income. The Standing Committee must resolve within the next 72 hours. And ultimately, it will be the Court.
SIDE EFFECTS
FACED. In the background, after the News Divine tragedy, Joel Ortega returned to public service in the six-year term of Miguel Ángel Mancera to take charge of the SCT Metro to lead the efforts to modernize the network that guarantees the connectivity of the metropolitan area of the CDMX. In due time, he revealed structural failures in the Golden Line and again confronted the ebraristas. Even before, he never stopped having contact with those close to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and in this six-year term he was close to joining the government intelligence apparatus. Now, many see him behind a movement that seeks to take administrative control of the main campuses of the National Polytechnic Institute, whose students are due to return to face-to-face classes in just four weeks. The teachers and the support and assistance personnel are scheduled for next January 4, 2022. In that institution, in charge of Arturo Reyes Sandoval, there are other disputes in the making, among them, the allocation of the millionaire contract for the cleaning of the academic and administrative units, whose assignment is overshadowed by accusations by the links that the industry businessman, José Juan Reyes Domínguez would have with Javier Tapia Santoyo, according to complaints from his competitors.
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