For the first time in 16 years, the Transparency and Social Control Function (FTCS) holds a session in the territory and they started with Loja. During the event they analyzed the Anti-Corruption Law project and collected proposals from citizens to incorporate it.
Circumstances
The FTCS, or better known as “the fifth power”, is made up of 8 institutions: General Comptroller of the State, Ombudsman, Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (Cpccs) and the superintendencies of Economic Competition (before Control of Power of the Market), of Banks, of Companies, of the Popular and Solidarity Economy and the Superintendence of Territorial Planning, Use and Management of Land; and its purpose is to implement, promote and monitor the principles of a democracy with regulated institutions, with political and social rights and with a public control system that incorporates citizen participation.
In this sense, the session held by this entity, on Friday, February 9, 2024, in the Aula Magna of the Legal, Social and Administrative Faculty of the National University of Loja followed the objective of encouraging citizen participation and strengthening the Function between the State and civil society; For this, the agenda had 9 points, which were approved by 6 of the 8 members.
The comptroller general of the State and president of the FTCS, Mauricio Torres Maldonado, mentioned to Diario Crónica that they discussed several issues, among them, the election of employees of the institutions to be part of the commissions that carry out the competitions of the different authorities of control; With this, they will prevent them from being biased and not choosing honest people.
Some agreements were also made and a commission was appointed to work on the Reform of the Regulations of the Transparency Function, which will analyze gender parity and other issues that are not in the regulations, that is, try to improve the standard.
Furthermore, “we are examining the draft Anti-Corruption Law that we plan to deliver to the National Assembly before the month of June, where legislators will have an arduous mission to approve it or not,” he said.
He added that, among the points of the session, they included welcoming the citizens, “who gave us their criteria that it should be placed in our law. There were nearly 50 associations and social groups and those who were heard as much as possible were heard; The important thing was to know their proposals in the preparation of the National Plan for the Prevention and Fight against Corruption,” he stated.
The FTCS Coordination Committee has adopted the policy of developing sessions in the territory in order to bring public institutions closer to the people, since the entity’s desire is for citizens to be empowered with social control, because they are the first supervisors of political power.
Contributions
From the Private Technical University of Loja (UPTL), 3 topics were raised related to the role of the academy in the fight against corruption: teaching, connection and training. “From university classrooms, let us encourage and avoid academic practices such as plagiarism and academic fraud,” said Diana Moreira, dean of the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences. (YO)
