he public money is managed to discretion

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The public money is managed to discretion
By: Carlos Damián July 24, 2012
This project unfulfill goals and it doesn't arrive to the programmed production
México. - It is accused Felipe Calderon’s government of concentrating resources on the Ministry of Treasury (SHCP, in Spanish), for 22 thousand million pesos that would be managed to discretion by the federal administration. Cesar Augusto Santiago Ramirez (CASR), of the parliamentary fraction of the PRI, and secretary of the Commission of Budget in San Lazaro building revealed that in 2010, and in accordance with the revisions elaborated by the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF, in Spanish), the federal government supervised the list of the main one partially them bet centers registered in the country, among them the casino Royale that was attacked by drug dealers in Monterrey, N. L.

The legislator about the report of Results of the Analysis of the Public Accounting 2010, it exposed that of each 10 audits, seven present problems. A fourth part of the total is negative verdicts; other fourth part is qualified as exceptions -the organ inspector it made delicate observations -; and a fourth part is cases in those that the entity could not emit opinion because the revised public section didn't give them the required information. And a fourth part is only positive. "It is for example the first time that there are so many audits and the most important federal government's sections, in the energy sector there are 24 negative verdicts; in the Ministry of Treasury (SHCP), 16; in the Secretary of Public Education (SEP), 13; in Agriculture (SAGARPA), 11; in Communications and Transports (SCT), 11."

The CFE and the oil project, they are cases of the administrative disorder
The opacity has penetrated in the sphere of the federal public service in all its instances, such it is the case of an “audit that sanctions to the Committee of External Credit because it didn't implement the programming analysis, budgetary, exercise and pursuit of projects financed with public funds whose figures was the following ones: 300 million Eurus and 14 thousand 180 millions of dollars of external credit of the organisms of direct budgetary control, neither the levels of their payment". The federal administration through Treasury, it has been reserved a I mount extraordinary of readiness, for 2010, and the reported quantity is of 22 thousand million dollars, that is to say, it has money in small safe, to invest the money where more it interests them.

Legislator CASR exposed the classic case of Pemex in the oil area of Chicontepec like paradigm of the government's administrative disorder. "In that case they offered that we would obtain 0.055 cents of utility, for each invested dollars. They justified the excessive expense in that oilfield, and then the Congress authorized to the company property of the state that spent what needed, and for each dollar the commitment was a gain of 0.055 cents; the result is that for each invested dollar, the treasury has lost 0.02 cents. It didn't only win but rather the Mexicans see every day lose dozens of millions of dollars. "In the case of the bills of the Federal Commission of Electricity (CFE), the company charged a high volume for the consumption with the approach of estimating rates”, “and one didn't go to millions of homes to take readings."

The reported audits are the tip of the iceberg
The observations that the ASF formulated to the Camera of Senators about the construction of its new headquarters, are hardly the tip of the iceberg", Ricardo Monreal Avila noticed (RMA), coordinator of the legislative group of the PT. As long as Fernando Castro Trenti (FCT), of the PRI, president of the committee for the Public Donation’s administration of the construction and equipment of the building of Reforma and Insurgentes avenue, recognized that 10 months after they were changed Xicotencatl building, they don't still receive formally what was programmed as Palacio Legislative neither date still exists. In turn other legislators demanded that responsibilities should be delimited with penal accusations against those responsible for the flaws and anomalies in the property locate in Reforma avenue, and in no way to stay in the impunity as always happens.

Legislator RMA emphasized that the most recent report in the ASF, where he gives faith of the no fulfilment in normative dispositions, among them the excessive delivery of premature payments to the manufacturer for almost 43 million dollars, among other, it corroborates that that him and other legislators have denounced on the anomalies and the confused points in the construction of the expensive headquarters. He insisted in that “there is infinity of irregularities and until illicit that have not wanted to clear up, as the decision of to buy construction materials abroad that is the case of the cared black marble of China, and desks, seats and other real state, acquired in Spain and Italy", as if the country was a banana island and none of the objects will be manufactured and they didn't have such construction materials.

The legislator extends from the PT when considering that it is surely balances that allowed “to inflate the costs and put up the price of the work artificially". November of 2011, 4 the subdirector of Fiduciary Administration of Banobras, Alejandro Bustos, informed in the senatorial headquarters that the building would delivering in 30 or 40 days, since that bank has carried out the verification of the quality of the processes that manufacturer Gami made. However three months later that has not happened. The legislator of the PRI FCT has indicated that everything that is rejected that doesn't count with the conventional quality and that it sanctions all inconsistency. As for the observations of the ASF, it considered that they should be assisted and to clean up what is susceptible of making it. "The instruction given to Banorte Bank and the personnel of the Senate that it is responsible for the finances of the building, is that it is thoroughly revised any irregularity, settle down fines and the corresponding penal accusations are even presented, in the event of illicit", and practical of corruption because the public resources are not given to anybody, and less to men corrupt that inflate the public bill.

"The ASF notices to the CFE that should adjust its acting and to attach to established approaches for collections of the rates. This recommendation goes to the company property of the state so that it revises all the billing of the 6 millions 524 thousand 66 users of the area of the Mexico Valley, and carry out the corresponding adjustments in favor of consumers". The legislator of the PRI (CASR), he announces that the commission of Constitutional Points is in process of solving an initiative to reform the articles 73, 74, and 79 of the Mexican Constitution to endow the ASF of teeth in such a way that has revision abilities and punishment for corrupt officials (thieves), already in these times they are sanctioned only administratively in some cases, because the Ministry of the Public Function only disguises since in fact its functions it doesn't punish anybody. (La Jornada, crisis global, p.p. 2.3, 14 de Julio, 2012).