Dictator Daniel Ortega ordered his political operators used as deputies in the National Assembly to approve the last reform of the year to the General Budget of the Republic (PGR) for 2024 and reduced billions of córdobas to care institutions such as health, education, housing , and others that did not execute the amounts assigned for the year and those millions were reallocated to the Army, the Police, the Ministry of the Interior, the Presidency and in the so-called “unforeseen expenses”, among other institutions who received smaller amounts.
The Official Gazette number 234 of this December 18, publishes Law 1231, “modifying law no. 1177, Annual General Budget Law of the Republic 2024”, in which the administration of the dictator Daniel Ortega orders, according to article 1, to increase the General Income Budget “for the budget year 2024 in the sum of C$12,067,434,134.00 (twelve thousand sixty-seven million four hundred thirty-four thousand one hundred thirty-four córdobas net).
Article 2 of the budget modification approved by the Ortega legislature increases this year’s General Expenditure Budget by an amount of C$7,633,796,013.00 (seven thousand six hundred thirty-three million seven hundred ninety-six thousand thirteen), of which C$5,615, million were reallocated to other institutions for current expenses and C$2,018 million for capital expenses.
They take millions from health and education for not executing them
Likewise, the reform of the income and expenditure of the State orders to reduce the budget items for this year, which is about to end, of 20 public institutions for not executing them on time, for a total amount of C$6,751,745,016.00 (six thousand seven hundred and fifty one million seven hundred and forty-five thousand and sixteen córdobas).
Among the affected institutions are public social assistance entities such as the Ministry of Education (Mined), which was stripped of C$31.9 million. They took C$1,015.7 million from the Ministry of Health (Minsa); The Supreme Court of Justice is reduced by C$19.7 million.
Meanwhile, they take C$2,243 million from the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (MHCP). The so-called “Allocations and Subsidies Item” is reduced by C$1,683.9 million.
They also reduce the amount of C$138.2 million to the Emergency Social Investment Fund (FISE). To the Institute of Urban and Rural Housing (INVUR), C$48.5 million. National Forestry Institute (Inafor), the sum of C$64.2 million. Nicaraguan Institute of Municipal Development (Inifom), the sum of C$47.94 million.
From the universities and higher technical education centers, Ortega orders to strip them of the sum of C$735.7 million, a sign of the contempt of the dictatorship of the Autonomy and 6% of the university budget, one of the reasons that the tyrant Ortega used since the opposition to send the students to set the country on fire.
In addition, they deduct from the universities, for the consumption of Electrical Energy, Water and National Telephony, the sum of C$99 million. They also reduce “Contributions and Contributions to International Organizations” by C$235.8 million.
Likewise, they take away C$36.2 million from the Fund for the Acquisition of Social Interest Housing and the “Unforeseen” item of C$1,151 million.
They continue to reward institutions such as the Army and the Police with millions
The reform to the Budget Law ordered by dictator Ortega allocates the billions of córdobas reduced to social assistance institutions to other institutions, among which the entities used as the spearhead in repressive actions stand out.
Ortega gives the Sandinista Police an “extra bonus” of C$193.8 million and the Army an “end of the year gift” of C$106.6 million.
Likewise, the Ministry of the Interior is given the sum of C$671.6 million to spend in the last days of the year and the Public Ministry, C$16.8 million.
Meanwhile, the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), in charge of riggedly executing the confiscations of property from denationalized and exiled opponents, is given C$504 million
The sum of C$6,881.4 million is reallocated to the Allocations and Subsidies item. This is the biggest reallocation Ortega has made. Under this heading, the state administration includes “budgetary credits for institutions that are not included in the budget of the Central Government ministries.”
The second largest reallocation is for the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MTI), one of the institutions that have signed million-dollar commitments with private Chinese companies, they reallocate C$4,395.7 million.
And in third place in reallocated amount is the Nicaraguan Social Security Institute (INSS), which received C$2.9 billion as “budget support” and C$226 million as “state contribution.”
In addition, the National Assembly, in charge of approving laws tailored to the dictators Ortega and Murillo, is rewarded with an increase of C$10 million. Ortega pays the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR), an institution classified as “unfunctional and inefficient,” for his silence in the face of state corruption with C$4.3 million;
Other institutions that received millions in the last days of the year are: The Mayor’s Office of Managua (C$289 million); To the collective urban transport cooperatives of Managua and Ciudad Sandino, the Sandinista administration assigns C$300 million.
As a subsidy to national transportation (Sandinista cooperatives), C$300 million; Nicaraguan Gas Company (Enigas), with C$243.3 million. The Presidency of the Republic, C$20.6 million; The Technical Standardization and Quality Commission with C$3.6 million, among others.
