Civic Participation - corruption prevails

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The general coordinator of Participacion Ciudadana says that new laws and departments set in place by the government to fight administrative corruption have had a "virtually invisible" effect. While presenting the civic group's annual report yesterday, Santiago Sosa mentioned that the procurement law, laws that regulate public credit handling, the treasury, internal controls and budgetary allocations had been aimed at achieving greater transparency. In his report he said there is no evidence that the government's conduct when in comes to public spending has changed for the better after the passing of these new laws. He said that use of public funds is neither transparent nor efficient and that the political and social prospects are not favorable for governance and respect for citizens and the constitution. "It all indicates that we are before a new model of personal concentration of power not in the hands of one party but in those of one leader," he said. He said that efforts to violate the constitutional principle of separation of government branches have continued, as evidenced by the way in which the new judges at the Central Electoral Board (JCE) and the Chamber of Accounts were appointed. The same applied, he said, to the commission that advises Congress on any conflicts involving modifications made in the Senate to the bill that establishes the Constitutional Court.

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