The Government of Quindío expressed the intention to support the proposed state decentralization model through parliamentary exercise.
By: KarenLisethe Wood Castro
Bogota DC, June 15from 2024 (Senate Press)Regional leaders, academics and citizens of the coffee region made their contributions in the eighth audience public about autonomous regions, led by the president of the Senate.
Get to know the territories, their realities and learn that they are all differentSoare in the same department, it is essential for autonomy to be provided and accompanied hereenes they know whatand Citizenship needs.
“We mayors know them because we live and are from the territory, we know the realities, it is like searching alternatives real to be further easy access to all types of projects”, mayor of Córdoba, Quindío, Guillermo Valencia.
For his part, the Dean of Legal Social Sciences of the Alexander University von Humboldt of Armenia, Diego López, indicated that lUniversities play a fundamental role in the process of construction of a regional state model, “universities are the calls to give continuity to what is collected of all that exercise in Colombia”.
The delivery of skills, resources and reformulation of territorial tax systems, will contribute to the regions having fiscal autonomy.
“The autonomyIa fiscal, the territorial tax system, requires a restructuringa modification, So has been evidenced by the national government itself, but we consider that the actions have been slow”, Secretary of TreasuryArmenia, Yeison Pérez.
Decentralization will also serve to ensure that problems such as unemployment experienced by the regions can focus on local investment and initiatives that contribute to regional development. that the responsibilities assigned are equal to the resources and needs that occur in the regions, it must be essential for it to be executed correctly and to generate development throughout the territory.
“The government of Quindío considers this opportunity favorable to join the need that all territories have today regarding the possibility of state decentralization to achieve, among other achievements, territorial equity through closing the gap and overcoming centralism. “, he stated the Secretary president of the department, Amanda Tangarife. during the meeting where mayors and leaders of the region assured that if this model became a reality, problems in sectors such as security, health and infrastructure could be addressed more quickly.
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