A total of 2,161 votes were registered in this municipality
The municipal president of Jocotepec participated in the Popular Consultation of the Fiscal Pact
Héctor Ruiz Mejía – In the Southeast Region, the municipality of Jocotepec took the first place in citizen participation in this Popular Consultation of the Fiscal Pact.
The Consultation consisted of a single question: «Do you agree that every six years, the terms of the Fiscal Coordination and the way in which the federation distributes taxes should be reviewed, in order to decide if Jalisco remains or leaves the Fiscal Pact?»
Jocotepec was positioned well above Chapala(despite the population difference), which only recorded 1,369 votes far behind Jocotepec, which closed with 2,161 votes.
In third place was the municipality of Mazamitla, with 943 votes, and the last place went to Santa María del Oro, with 102 votes.
Thus, out of the ten municipalities that make up the Southeast Region, a total of 7,775 votes were cast, out of the 30,606 possible, which represented a 25.40 percent participation rate of the regional goal.
These were the results of this first democratic exercise that took place this November 27 and 28; there are still three more dates of voting for the state of Jalisco, which is expected to reach 33 percent of citizen participation. the required participation for the Consultation to be binding.
Municipal President José Miguel Gómez López was disappointed that Jocotepec did not reach the expected goal of 5,683 opinions, saying there were not enough ballot boxes and only four participation centers in the entire municipality.
«By giving us only four ballot boxes, we were deprived of the possibility of many people to attend, because people work and have things to do; this influenced the low participation», explained José Miguel.
The mayor added that, in the first stage of the exercise, only one of the four electronic voting booths set up in Casa de la Cultura José Vaca Flores Jocotepec, was in operation. This caused the process to slow down, so that, according to the mayor, who was present to exercise his vote, people got tired of waiting and did not participate.
The Popular Consultation regarding the Fiscal Pact had an initial cost of 22.5 million pesos with a total of 430 electronic ballot boxes, for which an additional budget of three million 388 thousand 813.30 pesos was increased; therefore, in the end, the budget used was 25.8 million pesos and 530 ballot boxes were installed. The Consultation seeks to convince the Federal Government to assign more funds to the State and different governmental programs of the municipalities.
Translated by Patrick O’Heffernan
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