Taxi driver will assume the Azuay drivers’ union after defeating the list that managed the union for 12 years

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After twelve years, the Azuay Professional Drivers’ Union will change its leadership. In the elections held this Saturday, the majority of union members decided that Patricio Narváez, a taxi driver with more than 50 years of experience behind the wheel, will direct them for the next four years.

The counting of the votes ended at 9:45 p.m. on Saturday. Of the 1,661 votes, 60 were invalid, 4 were blank, 658 for list 1 (of the current secretary general); list 2 was supported by 939, a figure that allowed him to beat whoever wanted to assume a fourth consecutive term.

During the electoral campaign, list 2 was represented under the slogan “Work, transparency and service”, aspects that, according to the candidates, are included in their work plan to establish a productive, efficient union, of service to the member and that be accountable.

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For this reason, their first official measure will be to request an audit to find out the real status of their entire professional driving school, the high school, the gas station, the funeral home and the other services they offer to citizens.

Based on what he finds, he also intends to make his own mark by implementing a low-interest housing plan financed through his own credit union. But he will also maintain the projects undertaken, such as the vacation stay that is being built in the Santa Isabel canton.

Likewise, he offered to modify the statutes, because they are currently with a “lock” that prevents allowing partners access to certain information or returning after a voluntary departure.

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Patricio Narváez has been driving for years. His father, Alejandro Narváez, was a taxi leader in the city and also became general secretary of the union, but died while he was in office, which was later assumed by Mesías Vicuña (the current secretary). He says that since he was a child he accompanied him at work, and since then he fell in love with the job. (YO)