Work for the department, tomorrow assumes Graciela Echenique in deputies
Installed since mid -week in Montevideo, the former Secretary General of the Intendencia de Cerro Largo, participates in the preparatory activities of the National Parliament that this Saturday will enter a new legislature.
“We are taking this moment with great joy and a little nervousness because this is a different stage. What we are clear about is that we are going to work and we will work hard for the period that we have to be here ” promised Graciela Echenique In an interview with The daily professional.
“The expectations are many” He said minutes before entering a preparatory meeting that took place this Thursday, February 13 at 10. “We will be assuming tomorrow, February 15 at the time of 13. It will be a very emotional moment. At this point in my life, after having started the political career in the municipality of Friar Dead where I was two periods and then having passed through the intention. The culmination of my career is crowning with the Diputación. Always with the same desire to help and give a hand. While the resista body here will have us. ”
Echenique admitted that just over 20 years ago I would not have imagined all the journey he has made at the level of political representation positions. “I didn’t even think people could give me this possibility, support and affection, what is being promoted to one.” commented. “We cannot forget that we leave the dead friar” accurate. “We come from a small town inside Cerro Largo. Nor is that easy to make their way with your own list. Then came the alliances and agreements because we know well that no one can only come, not to be the great departmental lists that are not alone either ” said.
A project linked to health
The deputy of the National Party for the Department of Cerro Largo with her team is working on several issues. “The first thing we are going to present is that with a help from the Ministry of Public Health, the projects we had in the General Secretariat of the Intendencia can be extended to the rest of the country. We suggest that the municipalities do not come out so recharged ” pointed out.
“We must bear in mind that there were more than 20,000 people served in the four years. That shows clear that it is a necessity, a great need ” Graciela Echenique stressed.
“In the case of Cerro Largo there are 15 municipalities, but not all departments are so municipalized to sustain such programs for many should not be easy” said.
“While we were in the General Secretariat, from many intentions they called us to know how we had instrumented it.” revealed. “This is because it matters a lot to reach the farthest places” He added.
“I will integrate the Deputies Housing Commission, another issue for which I have worried a lot since I was mayor in the dead friar so we will see what can be done” concluded.
