Strengthening Municipal Supervision Bills: Urgent Action Needed to Control Corruption

2023-06-12 14:45:51

To control cases of corruption, deputies from all sectors highlighted the importance of giving urgency to bills that seek to increase supervision in municipalities.

As a result of the discussion of projects that seek Strengthen control tools in municipalitiesdifferent parliamentarians requested a greater urgency to discuss these initiatives.

This, within the framework of the corruption scandal involving the former mayor of Vitacura, Raúl Torrealba, and his collaborators.

situation that led to creation of an investigative commission to follow the case and that had as its first exponent the comptroller general, Jorge Bermudez.

In the instance, the authority stressed the project entered by the deputy of Humanist Action, Thomas Hirschwhich intends grant powers to the control entity to oversee public money.

The foregoing contemplates funds that receive corporations y Nonprofit organizations linked to municipalities, but which are private.

Another project in the matter is the one that proposes expand citizen participation mechanisms and “raises levels of probity y transparency in the municipal management and of corporations and foundations of municipal participation”.

the deputy Joanna Perezpresident of the commission and one of the authors of the initiative, delivered details About this.

Meanwhile, the deputy CEO, Ruben Oyarzowhich also sponsored this initiative, highlighted the relevance of moving forward in these projects.

Comptroller Jorge Bermúdez also highlighted some of the initiatives that are in this line, such as the one dispatched by Congress that establishes a new statute of protection in favor of the whistleblower of acts against administrative probity.

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