The expenses to attend the pandemic carried out by state governments and direct awards authorized by the federal government are the topics most awaited by the members of the Surveillance Commission from Camera of Deputies, who this Wednesday will receive the first reports corresponding to the Public Account 2020 by authorities of the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF).
It will be held at 11:00 am in a virtual event, which will be headed by the Superior Auditor of the Federation, David Colmenares, and by the deputy Marcela Guillermina Velasco González (PRI), technical secretary of the commission and who attends in representation of the president Mario Alberto Rodriguez (MC), who is convalescing after having tested positive for Covid-19.
Due to the fact that it is confidential information, the number of reports that will be presented in this exercise is still unknown; However, legislators foresee that there will be between 250 and 400 of a total thousand 523 to be delivered by the end of the year, according to the agency’s annual program, and that they will be divided into federalized spending of branches 33 and 28, financial compliance and performance.
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“Delivery will be a very small percentage of everything they are going to deliver at the end of this year. Historically, the first delivery of the reports of all the audits that are practiced in every year is very poor, and it is due to the fact that the planning that begins in February and they have very little time to work, so the progress they have by then they are very poor.
“Without being a guess, I can almost assure you that what we will see are audits that have already closed of small agencies, but of what we would expect of social programs or large works such as Maya Trend, for example, I don’t think this Wednesday will arrive ”, he explained to THE UNIVERSAL Mario Rodríguez, president of the Commission of ASF surveillance, who is breathing with the help of an oxygen tank.
The entities that are being more audited in the CPublic Account 2020 They are the states, municipalities and mayors of Mexico City, with 1,30 studies that will be revealed before the end of the year; the federal government, with 113 audits, mainly the secretariats of Finance and Public Credit (48); productive state enterprises (58); Communications and Transportation (48); Social Development (206); education (75), and Health (33), among others. All reports must be delivered before February 2022, so it is expected that only a part will be received this Wednesday.
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After the formal act, which considers an initial message from the owner of the ASF, a position by bench and a final speech by David Colmenares, the legal representatives of the ASF will deliver the physical reports to the commission. This event will be in person and is expected to begin at 12:00 hours.
The most anticipated issue for opposition deputies, revealed RodrÍguez Carrillo, are the audits related to the direct awards that the federal government authorized after the arrival of the virus SARS-CoV-2.
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“Many of the contracts for the health area were by direct award without tenders, we believe it was 50%, and although supplies had to be purchased with some speed, that does not justify that the information has not been made transparent, so we are waiting to see what we find these issues in the reports ”.
In contrast, the deputies of Brunette and its allies are waiting to know how the entities spent the resources that the federal government granted them to address the pandemic.
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