The president recognized the progress of the 23rd constituency of the Juan Gualberto Gómez Popular Council, where he exchanged on actions based on social care and community development, and highlighted the discipline, cleanliness and organization achieved there.
During the closing exchange of the visit, Díaz-Canel was interested in the organic functioning of the PCC, insisting that attention to grassroots organizations and work planning is vital, and the relevance of continuity to maintain unity.
It was known that Unión de Reyes manages to be a surplus municipality but its indicators can still improve much more as unnecessary budget expenses are made, greater tax discipline is required and there are four thousand fines to be collected that would contribute eight million pesos.
Promoting electronic payment, especially in agricultural establishments, combating tax evasion, working on cost sheets in both the state and private sectors, and combating excessive and speculative prices stood out as tasks in which to advance.
Díaz-Canel pointed out that it is necessary to organize a work system that fosters relations between the state and the private sector, with the clarity that the private cannot replace the social, and erase the myth that the private works well and the state works poorly, each sector. It must have its useful space in society.
Mario Sabines Lorenzo, first secretary of the PCC in the province of Matanzas, recognized that the municipality has a lot to work on in the improvement of the socialist state company, the combat in cyberspace, and self-sufficiency based on food sovereignty.
During the exchange, they emphasized the relevance of care for the vulnerable in the municipality that is the oldest in the province, which indicates the need to increase the number of grandparents’ circles and nursing homes, and improve the housing fund.
Also this Saturday, accompanied by Sabines Lorenzo and Marieta Poey, governor of Matanzas, the president visited the Octavio de la Concepción polyclinic, located in the town of Alacranes; and at the Municipal Agroindustrial Company of Unión de Reyes he spoke with the workers and insisted on applying science and innovation.
