Margarita Cabello called to exercise “social control” over the Attorney General’s office in the face of excessive “presidentialism” in the Petro government
On the morning of Friday, September 27, during her participation in the National Congress of Merchants held in Barranquilla, the Attorney General of the nation, Margarita Cabello, pointed out the current political environment, which she pointed out for the excess of “presidentialism”. .” , which could lead to possible cases of abuse of power.
The official assured that it is essential to maintain the balance of democracy in the country social control over the public prosecutor’s office, which in turn is in charge of decision-making in cases of corruption and instability. Otherwise, according to him, the panorama will not change.
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“There is a more important control, and we need it from the Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office to be stronger and more assertive, and that is social control. Corruption, instability, the progress of excessive presidentialism and insecurity will not stop unless citizen control is exercised over the authorities.” were the statements of the public prosecutor.
The official stressed that citizen participation in preserving democracy is essential in public office, stressing that oversight bodies are key to functioning as “supports and balances in times of uncertainty.”
“We demand that government institutions be aware of their mistakes, weaknesses and shortcomings, help them, because our task is to promote harmony between the governing bodies and the control bodies and to ensure that they take on their functions directly and with determination,” Cabello emphasized. .
Prosecutor Margarita Cabello also referred to the statement of William Dau, the former mayor of Cartagena, who was barred from public office for nine years by order of the Attorney General’s Office due to alleged contract irregularities during the covid-19 pandemic. In his statements, Dau criticized the watchdog’s decision to archive the investigation against former ICT minister Karen Abudinen. For the former local president, it is evident that there is no impartiality in the Ministry of Public Administration.
Dau compared his case, which consisted of signing a contract to purchase tests for COVID-19 during the pandemic, which subsequently showed irregularities, with the case of Abudinen, who was involved in the alleged diversion of $70,000 million in a contract awarded to the Population Centers. This contract was part of an advance payment for a project to bring internet to the country’s most remote rural schools, resources that have not been recovered to this day.
For Dau, the Attorney General’s office is politicized: “Margarita Cabello is the spokesperson for Álvaro Uribe and Iván Duque, she is the spokesperson, she expresses her opinion on national political issues that do not concern her, what she has to do is solve them and punish the bandits,” he declared in front of the microphones of W Radio.
Cabello said that in this case action was taken against the officials who formally awarded the bids and contracts. “Did the former minister sign any document? That’s my question. In the case of the former mayor, who was the one who signed and authorized everything? The difference between the two cases is profound,” stated the public prosecutor.
According to what he reported Spectator, One of the main reasons for Abudinen’s acquittal in the Centros Poblados case would be that on September 8, 2020, the former minister delegated functions to her general secretary, Adriana Vanessa Meza. prioritize, implement and manage the pre-contract, contract and post-contract stages of the Ministry’s contracting processes through the signing of an administrative act.