What Are Residents Benque Viejo Hopeful For This Election?

Last weekend was bustling with activity in Benque Viejo, as both U.D.P. and P.U.P. candidates set off to continue their campaign trail and secure voters for the upcoming municipal elections. Leading the red campaign is former councilor and first-time mayoral candidate, Marco Tesucum, while the blue is led by current Mayor of Benque Viejo, Jorge Rosales. Tesucum believes that there is much social work to be done in the area with an emphasis on youth involvement, while Rosales seeks to further the development him and his team accomplished in infrastructure and industry development. Ultimately, it will be the voters who decide who is most fit to fill the positions. We visited Benque Viejo to find out what the residents of Benque Viejo are most hopeful for this election, Here’s News Five’s Britney Gordon With that report.

 

Britney Gordon, Reporting

Although quiet in the weeks approaching elections, Benque Viejo is still decorated with banners and flags, signaling the big event to come and the PUP and UDP parties are both hard at work on their campaign trails trying to secure the votes for the big day. The UDP candidates who were out in the afternoon comprised of Mayoral candidates, Marco Tesucum and his councilors who emphasize their desire to assist the youths in the community through sports programs, jobs, and education.

 

Marco Tesucum, Mayoral Candidate, U.D.P.

“We are looking forward to work with the institutions, the high schools especially, and try to assist them as much as we can with students. Many students go to classes without, um, breakfast perhaps, or even though they might go, but they might not have for lunch. So we are planning, for example, on a Saturday, they can work at least half day and they can earn some money for OUT 2:00 their week”

 

The PUP candidates are comprised of current mayor, Jorge Rosales and his councilors who are seeking to further their infrastructural work and create job opportunities.

 

Jorge Rosales, Mayoral Candidate, P.U.P.

“We will try to implement two hundred thirty works like call center and remove the where the, bus terminal is at the moment, which is not a terminal. It’s just a parking area where they’re parking and move, uh, Make a central bus terminal by the cancha where that’s where the call center will be and that will bring in the socio-economic businesses to a point that will be the center area of OUT 3:51 Benque Viejo”.

 

But what are the residents of Benque Viejo asking for come March sixth? We asked a few residents what they are hoping to see implemented in their hometown. Some residents expressed a desire to see further infrastructural development.

 

Britney Gordon

“What are some concerns that you have about Benque and what are you hopeful for this upcoming election?”

 

Elias Castellanos, Resident, Benque

“Well, just to make them fix good then streets.”

 

Britney Gordon

“What’s one change that you would like to see implemented as a result of the upcoming elections?”

 

Raul Jimenez, Resident, Benque

“Well, one result I would like to see is that they can kind of fix the streets because there’s where Like places, like up there, there’s like a lot of streets that have a lot of holes, so when it rains a lot, it gets really muddy, really horrible to be in there.”

 

Alongside the roadworks, a reoccurring issues was the need for jobs in the area.

 

Marion Ali

“The next municipal government, which will be elected on March sixth, what would you like for them to address?”

 

Errol Coleman, Resident, Benque

“As I have been seeing from them is that they have been working on it, make them keep it on working and on, and if they could develop more, what. We have not been seen here in Benque or what we usually is, we need is that create more employees for the youth that they come on for from high school or whatsoever. It’s, they prefer to go outside. It’s something that we doesn’t have as much as creating maybe one call center here. Jobs, like great jobs so that people could have their money.”

 

Britney Gordon

“What are you hoping come out of this election?”

 

Gustavo, resident

“We all hope that if the government changes or not we need jobs in this town. People are jobless here.”

 

Whether the vote will skew red or blue, only time will tell on March sixth. Britney Gordon for News Five.