Guatemala, Guatemala
The president of Guatemala, Moving away Giammattei, He said Friday that his predecessor, Jimmy Morales, is the “example of what I should not be.”
The president spoke at a press conference about the “inheritances” he received from the Morales Administration, which concluded on January 14, and also stressed that every day discover more surprises left by previous officials, after a month in office.
The Morales Government “He left us with more debt than anything else,” said Giammattei, who in these 30 days has struggled to display an image of a hard-working and hard-working man, with extensive working hours and inflexible in his fight against organized crime with four states of prevention. decreed in the council of ministers.
“But, do you know that they left me (the previous government)? The example of what I should not be,” said the president.
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Giammattei, who during the transition of powers – between last August and January – criticized several decisions of Morales, lamented Friday that he inherited 110.9 million dollars of “drag (of the previous Administration)” that must incorporate “to not affect municipalities “, although it has a” limited “budget.
The ruler added that Morales had promised him “in this same hall”, from where he offered the press conference in the National Palace of Culture (Government office), a “box of 1.8 billion quetzals (more than 234 million dollars) but no, it was barely 600 (millions of quetzals, about 78 million dollars)”.
The amount of these trawling works will be analyzed in a probable “budgetary readjustment” that the Giammattei team.
Because the draft budget that Jimmy Morales Failed in his attempt to pass in Congress last November, Giammattei must face his first year (2020) with the same amount projected for 2019: a total of 88,243 million of quetzales (around 11,475 million dollars).
The relationship between the current president and his predecessor was also broken by an immigration agreement signed by the Morales Government with the United States in 2019, and he was never transferred to the ruler’s team during the transition stage.
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