President Gustavo Petro and controller Carlos Hernán Rodríguez.
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This Tuesday, at the Casa de Nariño, the President Gustavo Petro possessed the lawyer Carlos Hernán Rodríguez as comptroller general, after the full Congress elected him last week with 265 votes. He entrusted him with taking care of public money.
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“The Comptroller’s Office, as an independent body, has a fundamental job of keeping money and fighting corruption. That public money is not undermined and that it has efficient use. The Comptroller’s Office has been able to detect, in the year of covid, for example, a leak of money that did not go to the Social Rule of Law,” Petro told Rodríguez.
The president added that Rodríguez comes to command the Comptroller’s Office in times of tension, but that these mean change and stated that: “in my government there have also been inefficiencies because we have lacked speed.”
Subsequently, the president emphasized the debate taking place in Congress on the statutory education law, saying that it remains to be defined whether or not access to public education is a fundamental right in the country.
He concluded by reiterating that the Peace Agreement, signed between Colombian government and the extinct FARCgives you free rein to make changes in the law with the aim of complying with what was agreed.
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“A national agreement so that the rules can change when they oppose it. This does not mean National Constituent Assembly“It means changing the rules if necessary, and it has various instances, sometimes it is a government decree,” he expressed.
The new comptroller promised to recover $10 billion for the Comptroller’s Office and pointed out that he will only stay for two years to finish the management for which he was elected in 2022. He added that he will give all the guarantees for the entity to continue carrying out its functions, especially in the fiscal responsibility processes that it opened. the entity.
