Pressure mounts on accounts office

[NewsWhore]

Over the past week or so, pressure on the Chamber of Accounts (CC) has increased with citizen groups calling for the resignation of the entire panel of magistrates. The Chamber of Accounts is responsible for overseeing the government's management of funds, and earlier this year the magistrates voted a huge salary increase for themselves, despite a Presidential decree on austerity. On Tuesday, Citizen Participation, the Ce-Mujer group, the Women and Health Collective and the Citizens' Forum went to the Senate to hand in a memorandum requesting the resignation of the Chamber of Accounts. The groups accuse the CC of having lost credibility for the exercise of its functions. The document was signed by thirty civil society organizations and more than 170 individuals. The group disagrees with Presidential legal advisor Cesar Pina Toribio or the director of the Department for the Prevention of Corruption (DEPRECO) Octavio Lister, who both suggested pardoning the members of the Chamber of Accounts since they had "rectified their mistake in time."

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