Peru President: Articulating Gov't efforts will lead to strengthening public investment

18:00 | Lima, Feb. 3.

It is necessary for the three levels of Government to continue joining efforts with the clear objective of strengthening public investment, democratic institutionalism, and the closing of social gaps, President Martin Vizcarra affirmed on Monday.

During the inauguration of "Haku Wiñay Project Workshops: Efforts articulated with regional and provincial governments for the permanent removal of poverty," the Head of State stressed that the commitment with authorities and prioritized works will lead to directly benefiting citizens and making progress, in terms of closing social gaps.

"When we get together, we are able to achieve satisfactory results. If we work together, we will meet the goals and improve citizens' standard of living. We, the authorities, have this objective, but if the national focus is not articulated with the regional and local ones, then it will be difficult to be implemented," he expressed.

The top official stressed that there must be a balance for economic growth to become a real development tool for all Peruvians with a view to the country's Independence Bicentennial in 2021.

In addition, the statesman mentioned it is necessary

to boost the State's presence aimed at attending to the citizens with most needs in the national territory, since there are districts that register 80% poverty rates, which must be urgently reversed.

Thus, he underlined, it is important to add all efforts in order to achieve true synergies and meet citizens' needs.

Likewise, the President stressed that the articulated work and compliance with actions —since the first day of the current year— have allowed the Executive Branch —together with regional authorities and municipalities— to achieve a better budget execution.

"We started the first month (of the year) with a budget execution 90% higher than that of 2019, and we achieved it because together we have set goals, we work on them (…)," Mr. Vizcarra stated.

He explained that —in January 2019— the budget execution was around S/540 million (about US$159.9 million).

However, last January, it was possible to exceed S/1 billion (above US$296.20 million), which proved that the articulated efforts pay off and are feasible.

En el lanzamiento estuvieron presentes la ministra de @MidisPeru, Ariela Luna, 15 gobernadores regionales y 25 alcaldes provinciales de distintas localidades del país. pic.twitter.com/vQFJtQQyUn
— Presidencia Perú (@presidenciaperu) February 3, 2020

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Published: 2/3/2020

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