In a statement shared on its official social networks, the House of Ecuadorian Culture Guayas Nucleus ratified that this Thursday, February 17, the elections of its new board of directors will take place. The vote will take place in the auditorium of the Provincial Delegation of Guayas of the National Electoral Council (CNE), located on Democracia Avenue, from 08:00 to 17:00. Members of the Nucleus and artists and cultural managers are reminded that they must be registered on the electoral register.
The vote takes place three days after the electoral debate, held on Monday, February 14. Until December of last year the candidatures of Luis Naranjo Espinoza, Andrea Crespo, Ermel Aguirre, Martha Rizzo Gonzalez, Miguel Cantos Diaz, Ibsen Hernandez Valencia Y Virgilio Aray Valverde. In a video published by the CCENG of the meeting, which was broadcast live on Facebook, Crespo was not present.
election debate
The candidates presented their campaign proposals, responded to the concerns of the Provincial Electoral Board and also answered questions from the media representatives.
the plastic artist Miguel Cantos He proposed his provincial plan for a culture of collective development, which, he said, he has been preparing for two years with more than a hundred independent activists. He pointed out that his plan contemplates four lines of work: the link with the community; education and cultural training; administration of culture, arts and communities; and heritage.
Virgil Aray defended the inclusion of young artists to generate opportunities and promote health within the sector, working with agreements. In addition, she said, it will integrate rural communities, as marginalized actors of the cultural union and will seek financing with international cooperation.
As a researcher, Martha Rizzo He assured that he will collect information from the 24 cantons of Guayas to draw up strategies consistent with the needs of each sector. Its proposal is based on three axes: management, training and bonding. It also offers to create a culture anti-corruption commission to audit the previous four years and its own management. In addition, he said that it will promote employment in the artistic sector.
Ermel Aguirre He indicated that many of the actions of his future management are already in operation, such as the Edupedia virtual library. Likewise, it promotes a historical audio library. “We have to work hand in hand with technology,” stressed the candidate. He will ask the Government to hand over to the CCE-NG one of the state channels for the development of an educational channel that works 24 hours a day.
louis orange He stressed that he will promote the formation of seedbeds in the other cantons of the province, outside of Guayaquil. Even, he added, it will raise the levels of professionalization by improving the continuing education agreements that the Nucleus maintains with universities and institutes in the city.
Ibsen Hernandez is committed to working on three axes: reactivation, proposing actions so that artists and managers find development routes; strategic, which has to do with the unification of cultural actors; and transparency, so that citizens know not only the efforts of the entity, but also the destination of their investments.
Last date
The election takes place after several postponements, which come from last year. Initially it was scheduled for Friday August 20 and Saturday August 21, when all the nuclei had to renew their directories.
The process was left without effect due to a protection action taken by the Ab. Roberto Napoleón Angulo, M. Sc., judge of the Civil Mercantile and Tenancy Judicial Unit based in Guayaquil. The lawsuit was filed by candidate Martha Rizzo González. The judge’s decision had been given by a challenge to her register.
A new date had been set for December 9, but it was canceled because the CCNG “did not have the updated biosafety protocols required by the Intendancy,” Miguel Palacios Frugone, president of the CCE-NG Provincial Electoral Board, explained at the time. from October 20. He was referring to fire permits, operations plan, insurance policies, among others.
For this reason, December 28 had been chosen to finally fulfill the vote. However, in that same month that date was ruled out, for which he had selected January 12. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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