Evolution en the Intendance of Cerro Largo, ultimately the debt was doubled
The main reference of list 738 in Cerro Largo, departmental mayor since 2010, has been characterized by studying in detail so many five -year budgets that are presented in each administration start, as well as the successive accountability.
Under repeated opportunities the legislator of the Frente Amplio warned the Executive about the possibility of going through financial distress in case of not changing the course in terms of resource management.
“Already in the first years of Botana, back in 2010 and 2011, large deficiency began to be seen in deficit.” The architect Pablo Guarino recalled.
“A few days ago I published a graph on social networks where it was appreciated what the debt of the intention was at the time of assuming Sergio Botana. It was around $ 127,000,000, a figure that had been reached after the governments of Rodolfo Nin, the period of Villanueva Saravia and the governments of Barreiro. It was a manageable amount” considered. “With another much lower budget, which must also be said” He added.
“When he entered the Botana Administration, already in the first years you begin to see larger deficits. In the first years he practically doubled those 127 million pesos” reported. “That’s when we started warning that these things were happening” recalled.
Guarino said that when they analyzed what were the causes of that deficit, it was clear, which was repeated during the 10 years of management and then in the Yurramendi Administration, which was the product of the item 0 that is composed of the operating expenses and personal remuneration. “Especially for using the tool, which has done much bad to the department, of compensation” said.
“The last administration of José Yurramendi, who arrives at the Intendencia on a bid against Dr. Pablo Duarte who is now the Secretary General as the change. When his government team entered, he attended the Departmental Board to explain the budget with Rafael Rodríguez and Accountant Gomez, they talked that they had encountered an absolutely disorderly house, with a very negative way to make the expense and that they came to put the house in order. It was that people accompanied Yurramendi “ Pablo Guarino said.
Ultimately the debt doubled
“Today, after 5 years, the results have been very sad. During the last five -year period Yurramendi doubled the debt that Botana had left” He revealed during the live interview of The Professional Radio. “It takes it from 650 million to 1,380 million, numbers as of December 31, 2024” accurate. “According to what Mayor Morel and the Treasury Manager said, in these 6 months of 2025 the numbers climb 1,610 million pesos” He added.
“That generates what we are living today, a financial crisis that we had been anticipating. The snowball did not stop growing. In the last accountability that we analyzed at the Departmental Board we were clear in that warning: we told them that they did not take measures at that time in the medium term the situation was going to exploit” Guarino said.
“There the unanimity of the mayor of the National Party, which responded to José Yurmendi and those of Pablo Duarte and Morel, approved accountability. I do not know if they did not study these numbers or had a plaster hand, but the truth is that all the mayor of the National Party approved how it was managing and the debt that was growing” The departmental legislator of the Broad Front remarked.
