Together we must develop a government that works for the people
How to strengthen government management in the provinces and municipalities and, in turn, to contribute to the development of the economy and greater citizen participation in decisions was the focus of the intense day this Monday in a meeting of the presidents of the People’s Power Assemblies throughout the country to those instances, headed by Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, President of the Councils of State and Ministers.
Summarizing the meeting, Diaz-Canel assured that the objective is framed in the purpose of strengthening the working relationship between the central government and the territories, for which a work system has been designed that includes visits to them.
He emphasized the conditions that should exist to have a more efficient public administration, which not only implies the availability of material resources, but also work styles and structures, an adequate training policy of cadres with revolutionary sensibility and restlessness, without bureaucratism, with a spirit of collectivity and permanent linkage with grassroots. “Together we should develop a government that works for the people,” he stressed.
A picture that is not sensitive does not act, it bothers him that people pose problems, he said, while exhorting him to work with fewer obstacles and bureaucracy, and to continue prioritizing attention to the population.
We have to look for a more transparent government action for the population, which knows what we are doing, where the priorities are going, which are a function of development and their needs. This is a guarantee of people’s participation in decision-making, he added.
In his intervention, he emphasized aspects of the international situation characterized by a neoliberal colonization offensive, media manipulation, the proliferation of fake news, increased confrontation and harassment by the United States against nations in the region, including Cuba, against which the application of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act is still latent.
That is why he took up again the three priorities in the government’s management set forth several months ago by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, who placed the preparation for defense and the economy at the same priority level.
The other was the constitutional referendum, which once it took place gave us a victory, a response to reaffirm the commitment of the majority of Cubans to the Revolution, said the Cuban President, who stressed that the economic battle continues to be the fundamental task, the most complex and of which the people expect the most, and in order to fulfill it, it is necessary to reinforce structures and means of management and the support of specialists in economic sciences.
(Taken from ACN in Spanish)
Written by Radio Grito de Baire
