The councilor Asís Cano Cetina deplores the exclusion from the Mérida City Council in the work to define the project redesign of Paseo de Montejowhich considers a lack of respect.
This lack of respect, he points out, is not only for the municipal authority but for all Merida residents.
It also emphasizes that the only formal and legal representation of the City hall falls to the mayor Cecilia Patron Laviadabecause this is what the citizens decided at the polls.
The councilor is referring specifically to a meeting scheduled yesterday at the Great Museum of the Mayan World under the call of Institute of Mobility and Territorial Urban Development (Imdut), in which the topic was addressed “Road Infrastructure in Paseo de Montejo.”
At that meeting, according to the invitations issued to a select group, representatives of state and federal agencies, as well as representatives of civil organizations, attended.
Among the “representatives of related institutions and organizations” who would attend, Julio Adrián Gorocica Rojas with his position as councilor of Mérida. He is coordinator of the Morena faction in the Cabildo.
The invitations have the signature of Iraq Greene Marrufo, general director of Imdut.
In this regard, Asís Cano says the following:
—We are surprised that the Imdut, as a department of the State government, sent a written invitation in which it shows the exclusion of the City Council in something that should be of interest to each and every Meridan.
—In addition, from what we saw, councilors from the same party where the director of Imdut comes from participate in that meeting. Obviously, they do not have the legal representation of the Commune.
—It is important to note that this representation is exclusively held by the mayor. It is, by the way, a representation that gave him the vast majority of Meridians and Meridians at the polls.
—No agency, of any order of government, has the power to unilaterally choose the interlocutor that suits it or suits it. To do that is to trample on the will of the people who elected their representatives in the elections.
—This is clearly a lack of respect, not only to the City Council and the mayor but to the people of Merida.
—With this type of behavior it is evident that they do not want to listen to voices with which they might not agree and they do want to listen to those that are comfortable for their positions from the State government.
-He The City Council headed by Cecilia Patron has at all times been respectful and has maintained a spirit of collaboration for the benefit of citizens, with the conviction that it is the best way to provide results for the people.
—The best example of this spirit is that from the City Council we accompanied the signing of the collaboration agreement of the metropolitan area of Mérida last August. By the way, it is an agreement that must be regulated by Imdut itself.
—In the particular case of the topic that has been discussed in recent days about the redesign of the flower beds that the State government intends to carry out on Paseo de Montejo, The mayor has been very clear in her position that any project of this type must start from a consultation that include the voices of everyone, starting with the citizens who use this route and of course from the Mérida City Council, as the order of government closest to the citizens.