For a week, in the Mayor’s Office of Masaya nobody knows where the mayoress, Janina Noguera, is. Sources close to the commune have revealed that the Ortega official left the country to accompany a delegation from the regime on a special visit to China, a country considered the new political ally of Daniel Ortega.
On June 29, the councilors were summoned for the last time for an extraordinary session at the mayor’s office at 8:00 in the morning, but hours before the emergency meeting was to take place, the Council secretary annulled said call. . It is presumed that the session was to report on the absence of the mayoress in the municipality to go abroad.
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Since then, the councilors have been waiting for the new call for the ordinary session for the month of July and their respective “diet”, which by municipal agreement must be delivered to them every second Saturday of the month, in this case, it should have occurred on July 8. A councilor from this city assured that Noguera’s absence has delayed the issuance of checks, and therefore, the corresponding session for this month.
«For the ordinary session (in July) they sent us to say that it was suspended due to force majeure and that for this time -as an exceptional case- it does not have a date. They have not paid us the diet », he confirmed.
Award from El Carmen, but they disrespect laws
Another anonymous source, close to the Sandinista party, revealed that Noguera was selected from El Carmen, the headquarters of the dictators, in Managua, to accompany a delegation that is visiting China, she even announced that she is expected to return this Monday, July 17, and participate in the celebration of the 44th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution.
This past Sunday, July 16, official media confirmed that a delegation from the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), invited by the Chinese Communist Party, completed a 10-day work schedule in the Asian country “with the aim of strengthening the ties of cooperation and brotherhood» between both nations.
It is known that the dictatorship delegation was made up of Noguera and the mayors of Nueva Guinea, Rivas and León, as well as the director of INATEC, Loyda Barreda; the president of the CNU and rector of UNAN-Managua, Ramona Rodríguez; the director of INTA, Sury Zamora; the vice minister of agriculture, Ivania León; and various propagandists from official media.
Noguera violates Law 40, says expert
A former official of this mayor’s office pointed out that the departure of the mayoress of Masaya, without prior notice to the Council, which is the highest authority, violates autonomy and Law 40 or Municipal Law. Likewise, he affirmed that the official has a time limit to be absent from her seat in this commune.
“If the highest authority, which is the Council, was actually respected, she should have informed that she had that trip to China, inform about what the management she is doing for the municipality is, so that the Council authorized her absence. She is not absolute, so she should have reported her tour,” she said. “It’s in violation” of the law, she added.
In the graphic, the Sandinista mayor of Masaya, Janina Noguera, addressing the public during one of the most recent political acts in that city.
For the former councilor, Noguera should have reported his absence -as a last resort- with the vice mayor or secretary of the Council, and assured that he cannot remain absent from Masaya in a secret way and without notifying the reasons since -in his opinion- “it is not the municipality can be stopped because she is not there ».
In this sense, he warned that the councilors have the right to claim “absolutism” from Noguera, in Masaya, however, he clarified that when municipal autonomy was lost, the Law was only written on paper and in practice it is not complied with. For this reason, he affirmed that any attempt to protest or claim by the councilors for the Noguera case could cost them their position, or even their dismissal, as has happened with other Sandinista officials in the country.
“They have the right to complain internally because if they protest before the Council they run the risk of being separated from their position, because we already know that these (positions) are assignments and not by popular election. Here they invent any anomaly and dismiss you », he valued.
Ortega annihilated autonomy
On the other hand, since a kind of “entourage” between mayors and the President was created, municipal autonomy has been lost, the former councilor highlighted.
In this sense, he explained that the mayors are subject to fulfill functions ordered from the Presidency, that is, many of the agendas, programs and projects are directed from the central government and not according to the needs of each municipality.
“We all looked at the coincidence that last year, on a certain date, it was time to remodel the parks and it was at the national level, and it was not something that the municipality really needed, but rather because it was a government order. From there we see that there is no authority, only orders from up there are carried out, “he concluded.
By: United Voices.
