SENATE President Edith Deleon Guerrero last week issued a “Report to the People” touting her legislation and community projects that she said promoted transparency, fairness and quality life for the people of the CNMI during her first two years in office.
Deleon Guerrero won a Saipan Senate seat in 2020.
From January to December 2021, she reported that 49.4% of her office expense was for personnel; 30.6%, office operations; 14.3%, community work; 5.2% travel; 0.5% fuel; and 0%, monthly subsistence allowance.
In 2022, her office’s personnel expenses went up to 68.7%; office operations, 13%; donations and contributions, 16.4%; travel 0%; fuel 1.8%; monthly subsistence allowance, 0%.
The CNMI’s first Democratic and female Senate president said her mission is to “promote and create a government of the people that truly and sincerely lives up to its promise, lives up to honesty and transparency, and takes care of its islands and its citizens [while] provid[ing] opportunities to all and not just for a few.”
She vowed to help create a system that promotes fairness and equality whether it is for business or employment; a government that is respected regionally and internationally; a fiscally sound and healthy government with well-managed and sustainable industries for everyone’s economic prosperity.
Deleon Guerrero said she is committed to help improve and protect the living standards of families and children, and is encouraging citizens to freely express themselves without fear of their government.
She said she will “invest in our human capital assets for our…economic advancement [in which] families and individuals alike are empowered to grow and aspire for greater success.”
She said she will likewise develop “a system of services for long-term care” and work toward “improved and affordable infrastructure for our people and for investor confidence.”
In addition, she said she will promote “a system of consumer services…that promote efficiency,” and will “encourage and promote a system of leaders elected by the people who honor and promote their people….”
She is also for securing “our home where national security is cherished and honored in union with the U.S. under the Covenant.”
Edith Deleon Guerrero
