| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | July 2009 
PRI Warns Calderón on Poverty
 Víctor Mayan - RUMBO de México
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July 22, 2009
 |  | We will be prioritizing all the programs that help fight poverty, mainly those which help many Mexicans in poverty to get ahead in these difficult times while the nation recovers its economic development and the needed jobs are created.
-Senator Manlio Fabio Beltrones |  | | |
President Felipe Calderón on Tuesday was warned that any attempt on his part to shut down anti-poverty programs will be met with a roadblock by Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) legislators.
Senator Manlio Fabio Beltrones, who coordinates PRI members in the Senate, said that in September, when his party becomes the majority in Congress, the PRI will introduce a bill to change the Social Development Law to prevent monies allotted to these programs from being used with electioneering ends.
Beltrones also took a brief moment to mention the President´s acknowledgement that the Gross Domestic Product had shrunk by 9 percent during the first half of this year.
"We began with a little, mild cold and ended up with a pulmonary congestion we still can´t get rid of."
Getting back to the subject of poverty programs, Beltrones said the PRI will not permit the president to "exterminate" those programs currently mitigating poverty in important regions throughout Mexico.
"Absolutely not, we will be prioritizing all the programs that help fight poverty, mainly those which help many Mexicans in poverty to get ahead in these difficult times while the nation recovers its economic development and the needed jobs are created."
He also emphasized that now is the time to overhaul the Social Development Law in order to prevent money used to fight poverty being applied to quotas political parties get.
"The delegates in the states do not have any knowledge of these social programs and the only thing they want is to use those resources so they can be candidates of their political party in the future. One of the elements the Social Development Law must have is to ban delegates from managing the programs, particularly those who have been candidates for a political party or leaders of political parties in their state."
PRI Senator Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera says social programs should be readapted so that their impact is more effective than in the recent past. |
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