NewsWhore
11-27-2008, 03:20 PM
The executive vice-president of the Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (Finjus), Servio Tulio Castanos Guzman, warned yesterday that the Congress cannot continue to pass a budget law that violates the country's own laws.
He called for Congress to create a body to monitor the implementation of the laws that set out the minimum percentages for different entities that are not being met in the budget disbursements.
At the same time he said that public officials' assets should be audited and that anyone who doesn't submit to the process would be penalized and their pay suspended.
On the issue of complaints by Supreme Court president Jorge Subero Isa who has asked for more funding for the judiciary, Castanos Guzman said that it is certain that the justice system needs funds for developing programs as well as for implementing projects. He said that what causes greatest concern is the fact that the law has not been followed in terms of the funds assigned to the Justice Ministry. He revealed that the complaint that was made by the courts is the same as the municipal governments or the Ministry of Education that do not receive the percentages approved by law.
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He called for Congress to create a body to monitor the implementation of the laws that set out the minimum percentages for different entities that are not being met in the budget disbursements.
At the same time he said that public officials' assets should be audited and that anyone who doesn't submit to the process would be penalized and their pay suspended.
On the issue of complaints by Supreme Court president Jorge Subero Isa who has asked for more funding for the judiciary, Castanos Guzman said that it is certain that the justice system needs funds for developing programs as well as for implementing projects. He said that what causes greatest concern is the fact that the law has not been followed in terms of the funds assigned to the Justice Ministry. He revealed that the complaint that was made by the courts is the same as the municipal governments or the Ministry of Education that do not receive the percentages approved by law.
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