The first round of these meetings based on technical and institutional information will be concluded on the 22nd, explained the head of the Executive Planning and Programming Secretariat, Luz Keila Vilchez.
This Monday it will be the turn of the Office of Social Work of the President’s Wife, on the 21st it will be the Ministry of Defense, while the Ministry of Food and Food Security and the Ministry of Interior will be closed, he explained.
The transition process continues to progress positively, said members of the organizing committee, which included the Banco de Guatemala meeting.
The offices delved deeply into aspects of planning, programming, goals and outcomes, apart from the challenges to be overcome, they expanded.
In the area of public finance, on the one hand the head Edwin Martínez and on the other hand the delegate of the elected board Jonathan Menkos exchanged strategic information.
The first meeting took place on October 10 at the National Palace of Culture (government headquarters), where the current government set up an office specifically for leadership transition meetings.
The dialogue with the teacher María Mercedes Arce, delegate of the Semilla party, was attended by the heads of the Labor and Social Department, Rafael Rodríguez, and the head of the Culture and Sports Department, Felipe Aguilar, as well as other officials.
The Minister of Energy and Mines, Manuel Eduardo Arita, received the engineer Óscar Villagrán to carry out the exchange of important information about the institution, the central organization announced on the social network X.
Teams appointed by the government and elected President Bernardo Arévalo resumed the transition process on October 4, two days after road blockades demanding the resignation of Attorney General Consuelo Porras.
The winner of the election was forced to leave the country temporarily on September 12th because the Ministry of State (MP) intervened in the vote by searching mailboxes containing ballot papers from the first round of voting on June 25th.
While the prosecutor’s office continued its maneuvers, Mayan indigenous authorities from the 48 cantons of the Totonicapán department and social organizations promoted protests in defense of the popular will expressed in the elections.
The mobilizations of hereditary leaders and several merged units changed their strategy by focusing on a sit-in in front of the MP headquarters that has been going on for 43 consecutive days.
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