Uruguay
Front Broad Front councilors requested that Guillermo Besozzi be summoned to the Soriano board
The opposition bloc asked that the mayor explain the contracting of private mechanical workshops and the controls applied to spending. The request also seeks to learn how the referral of municipal vehicles and machinery is decided.
The Broad Front councilors’ bloc in the Soriano Departmental Board submitted a note to the body’s president, Nilda Costa, requesting the appearance in chamber of Mayor Guillermo Besozzi, according to Caras y Caretas Uruguay.
According to the document cited by that outlet, the request seeks for the departmental chief to provide detailed information on the contracting system, operation, oversight and execution of spending linked to private mechanical workshops that work for the Soriano Municipality.
The councilors said that in recent years the municipality has allocated public resources to the repair and maintenance of municipal vehicles, machinery and equipment through those services. In that context, they raised the need to deepen oversight of the internal procedures that determine when a unit is sent to a private workshop.
Among the points they seek to have clarified are the mechanisms used to decide the referral of vehicles, the selection of the establishment, the officials responsible for making those decisions and the technical, administrative and economic criteria applied in each case.
According to Caras y Caretas Uruguay, the request also mentions public statements by Besozzi himself about the selection of companies, price comparisons and repair times. On that basis, the councilors asked to know precisely whether there is a general protocol for these contracts, how price comparisons are documented and which officials or authorities authorize the referrals and the spending.
The note requests that the matter be included on the agenda of the next regular session so that the plenary can decide on the summons. Days earlier, moreover, the Departmental Board unanimously approved a request for the Court of Accounts to intervene to audit spending on mechanical workshops, according to the same outlet.
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About this note. Written by El Notero with assistance from artificial intelligence, based on what was published by the cited outlet. El Notero did not conduct its own reporting on this event.
