Last week, the Comptroller’s Office removed the board of La Moneda by holding in an opinion that Minister Giorgio Jackson “did not comply with the necessary disregard” for getting involved in the negotiation to improve the Approval proposal regarding the reforms to the constitutional text .
This Friday, the entity led by Jorge Bermúdez adopted another decision on Jackson and took note of the resolution sent by the General Secretariat of the Presidency to print more than 700,000 copies of the constitutional text proposed by the Convention.
The decision arises in the midst of the judicial scenario that the minister is facing, since the Seventh Guarantee Court will review two complaints for the printing of said copies, after an appeal filed by deputy Juan Eduardo Irarrázaval (Republican Party) in which he challenged that said copies were printed when the Constitutional Convention had already been dissolved for an amount of $444,616,384.
According to official sources, the Comptroller’s Office ordered the taking of reason for the decree on the basis that the resources delivered to the constituent are still in force, according to the Budget Law approved by Congress for 2022.
And the parliamentarian’s complaint precisely pointed out that this action “is not authorized by the Budget Law for the Public Sector corresponding to the year 2022.”
Secondly, the supervisory body took into consideration that the board of directors headed by María Elisa Quinteros asked the General Secretariat of the Presidency – a ministry that by law was in charge of carrying out the work entrusted to the constituent – to disseminate the text constitutional.
In any case, the Comptroller’s Office could audit the execution of portfolio spending.
For some official voices, the resolution of the entity is a blow to the complaint that is being processed against him in court.
Jackson had said that “there may be some deputies who are bothered that people can read the text, but the Government has a duty to continue spreading.”