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Congress | Jorge Muñoz presented a project to create a Mayor’s Office of Lima | Politics


The mayor of Lima, Jorge Munoz, presented last Friday a bill before the Congress of the republic in order to create a Mayor of Lima to improve strategies in different parts of the city, given the expansion of infections by the new coronavirus (COVID-19).

Indeed, through a statement, the Municipality of Lima (MML) indicated that this new figure would exercise jurisdiction over planning and urban planning, citizen security, solid waste management, markets, among other relevant matters.

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Thus, the districts that make up the capital would be associated in five territorial units: North Lima, South Lima, East Lima, South Spas and Central Lima.

This with the objective that in each one a territorial mayor’s office would be constituted, which would promote and manage the development of the constituencies that comprise it.

“What is sought, through this initiative, is that, as the highest local government body, it constitutes a Mayor’s Office regarding the new territorial units that would make up the area of ​​the province ”, said the mayor on his departure from the legislative Palace.

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It should be remembered that Jorge Munoz He had already advanced that this project seeks to have “the necessary powers” for a greater mayor’s office and thus be able to bring together all the district mayors and work together to reduce the impact of the global pandemic.

In the same way, he explained that the current political-territorial division that the State It makes the actions that are taken much slower and that in crisis situations, such as the current one, a series of deficiencies are exposed.

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“The proposal that we have presented creates the figure of a mayor and five mayors who respond to the same number of associations that we have at the moment,” added the mayor.

Finally, the current system means that the various authorities have total autonomy of their districts, thus complicating the coordination that must be carried out to combat the coronavirus and the reason why he took this project to Parliament.

Communiqué from the Municipality of Lima on the project for a Mayor’s Office of Lima.

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