Jones promises to rescue image Municipal League and supporting small cabildos

The ruling reformist Johnny Jones argued that you are looking for the General Secretariat of the Dominican Municipal League to push an agenda of improving her image "service status" and to help the mayoralties small to meet their obligations municipal.

Jones, who was nominated by the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) and endorsed by the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), stated that he is considered the candidate of consensus because the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) has also stated that it welcomes the decision of the majority.

Promised that after the 26th of this month, during the Assembly of the League, to be held his work consist "giving Advisory Councils nationally, much more timely to the municipalities of fewer resources, small, with no possibility of way of creating internal technicalities, departments that make good management".

During u000aan interview in the newspaper "El Boulevard with Paul McKinney", by CDN 37, Jones added that also intends to promote education in the Councils to "create a citizen again... a toilet culture, a culture of recycling, a culture of management of the environment".

Said that he has been working to achieve that the mayors have the ability to make sound management, which can be accountable, who know that they are managing public resources and to do "in a manner transparent and having all the accounting instrumentation that City Council to exercise clearly and effectively its functions".

Jones reiterated that transparent funds in the Councils is crucial because the mayors are civil servants who are closer to the population.

"The official (the Mayor) is evaluated every day, hour to hour," said the candidate to lead the League.

Said that you to achieve u000agreater efficiency, since the League funded courses and workshops with the Chamber of Auditors, the Auditor General's Office, "so that these officials have the will and the tool to carry out its work effectively".

It expressed its appreciation to Amable Aristy Castro, former Secretary of the League; and Fidias Aristy, current Secretary, which as a reformist leaders have made "a great job" in favour of the cabildos, "but lack a change of thinking of the people around the League".

He said that the municipality has been creating the conditions for greater participation in the national budget and the League manages a percentage of the money, but said it must be done in a way transparent.

Jones considered that there has been progress much because already procurement are carried out through public competition, applies the participatory budget. "We must project transparency, subject to procedures", pointed.

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