Following the announcement of the presidential initiative that seeks to eliminate, among other things, the Executive Secretariat of the National Anti-Corruption System (SNA), experts believe that the door is being opened for a possible dismantling of this system, in addition to endangering civic participation. . the fight against this plague.
Francisco Ciscomani Freaner, president of the Coordinating Committee of the National Anti-Corruption System, believed that the said proposal could be more expensive in the long run and could affect the autonomy of the SNA.
“What I think is the president’s intention is to save resources within the public administration’s expenditure to allocate to the programs we know about, but in the case of the Executive Secretary, it seems to me that the president is probably not well advised. , because it is an executive arm that promotes cooperation between various institutions and government orders
“In addition to an institution that costs virtually nothing, as he planned 220 million in 2017 and for today works with 124 million and 20% less than his staff,” he said.
After explaining that among the tasks of the Executive Secretariat, led today by Ricardo Salgado Perrilliat, is citizen coordination between government bodies, working with local systems, evaluating the models for combating corruption and implementing The National Digital platform of the national anti-corruption program launched, the president of the CPC also highlighted the work done with international organizations to fund studies on the matter.
So, he thought, the institution should triumph, as it goes beyond the men and women who can make it up, since this secretariat is the body that represents society.
“When we send this work to a government agency or entity, we remove the social factor from the system, that’s why we are concerned,” he stressed.
He also warned that if the president’s initiative is approved, the tasks of the secretariat could pass to the Citizens’ Participation Committee (CPC), which will have to be provided with additional resources and posts to carry out the task of coordination.
“In the end, it could be more expensive than maintaining the secretariat, which costs almost half of what it cost in 2017, as it is subject to the whole issue of austerity and savings,” he said, while he emphasized that this body does. not having their own offices or any other kind of expenses like car rental.
“Death Punch”
In turn, Mariclaire Acosta Urquidi, former president of the SNA Coordinating Committee, warns that eliminating the Executive Secretariat from this system will give it a “death blow” as it will begin with a dismantling of the system, mainly in civil matters.
The expert recalled that this secretariat, in addition to being a technical area, is the channel through which the CPC can put forward proposals for a national anti-corruption policy, giving citizens a voice in the fight against this scourge.
Acosta Urquidi also warned that the promoters of the SNA from the beginning emphasized that the coordination with the various entities should take place through an autonomous one, as it was based on the idea that no one accepted or accepted the system as their own. not, and has independence. , especially for the government entities.
Likewise, he believed that this initiative could be part of the president’s intention to obliterate the SNA, as these intentions were marked by the whole time in which the CPC was headless and the lack of interest in appointing the missing members.
While the motivation for presenting this proposal also comes from the president’s rejection of autonomous bodies and their functions, it is clear that he prefers to centralize power.
In the past, Ricardo Salgado Perrilliat said he was satisfied with what was done in the Executive Secretariat, “we did what the law required us to do, we did a lot without having the resources. “I started with a budget of more or less 220 million pesos, today I have more or less 120 million pesos, but it’s because we wanted that budget, the budget we have is enough to work,” he argued. .
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx