In connection with the topic of financial supervision and the supplementary budget which was discussed this week in a public meeting, independent parliamentarian Ryçond Santos do Nascimento considered it appropriate to share a summary of the public financial policy that Aruba has known since Status Aparte to illustrate the reason why we are where we are today.
Disastrous finances since 1986
Thus, since 1986 Aruba has never had a budgetary cycle in order, which complied with the laws of financial control. “Never delivered the budget on time, no government complied with our accounting law when executing the budget, never presented the supplementary budget on time and year after year prevented the Algemene Rekenkamer from taking a proper control and delivering it back to the Parliament on time”, Santos do Nascimento said.
The reality of Aruba is that there has never been an orderly financial administration, which forces you to wonder what Parliament has been doing all this time. When did Parliament send a finance minister home for financial mismanagement? When has parliament dismissed a minister president or cabinet minister for financial mismanagement? Never”, he added.
It is obvious that the democratic party of Aruba is simply not working; the budget law of the parliament of Aruba is simply not working and that is because since 1986 pure knikkers have been sitting in Parliament.
AVP and MEPs have been meeting since 1993
It was further noted that Aruba obtained its Status Aparte to become independent in 1996. However, neither Henny Eman nor Nel Oduber wanted independence and lobbied with the Netherlands who agreed to scrap independence from the Statute, under the condition that financial administration would be the issue to be discussed. That’s the protocol that AVP and MEP jointly signed with the Netherlands in 1993.
Later, it was Nel Oduber herself who sent a letter to the governor asking the Kingdom to intervene against the then government and it was the MEP of Evelyn Wever-Croes who produced the document Feestvierend ten Ondergaan to ask the Netherlands to intervene. In a letter they explicitly state that the Dutch intervention in 2015 was in place and necessary for Aruba. However, now he wants to take another tone. The AVP and MEPs are once again arguing against supervision. Why? Because they want the feast to continue.
Santos do Nascimento: ⁇ But if we want to have a country for our children and grandchildren, a country that offers real opportunities, not the current education and employment system that is a disaster, and a country where citizens and businesses can have different perspectives, we have to act differently. ⁇ That’s why it’s important that we have financial supervision. MEPs and AVP themselves have in the past often sent letters to the Netherlands confirming that they receive significant supervision.
The future of our children and grandchildren requires good administration
Finally, the independent parliamentarian wishes people to remember that it is the madness of these two parties that has created a debt of 6 billion florins that is our national debt. Then you have a government that takes a lot of money from the people, about 1 billion florins a year through taxes and revenues, but that doesn’t want to have its financial administration in order. If we want our children and grandchildren to have a chance to prosper, we must work on good governance urgently. Without good governance, government services will continue to be of inferior quality, education will continue to be a disaster and citizens will have no prospect of transforming their salary from 2,500 florins to one of 5,000 florins or more.
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