Jose Williams evaluates ‘everyone who works in the administrative part’ of Congress after costly hiring

Congress President, Joseph Williamsconfirmed that this Tuesday he evaluates all people who work in the administrative field parliamentafter a case broke out in the legislature about expensive contracts for goods and services.

In press statements, the President Board of Directors He said that the “restructuring of the administrative part” had already begun, while he declined to answer whether he demanded the resignation of high-ranking Congress official José Chevasco because of this case.

Williams He pointed out that the food contracts for congressmen, whose budget has been increased to 190 sols per deputy on plenary days through the addition, come from past years and do not depend on Board of Directors.

“Contracts, procedures, tenders are not an obligation Board of Directors”We don’t name the committees that will be elected, the administrative part looks at it, and the Internal Control Department exercises supervision,” he said.

The head of the legislature recalled that Congress took action after the scandal, requiring the Comptroller General of the Republic to conduct an audit and confirming that he had already discussed this with Comptroller Nelson Shack,

“I just agreed with the controller, the team has already been assembled (for verification) and today they start working […] Today, we have already begun to communicate to give them all the necessary information so that they can conduct investigations,” he said.

Contracts for the purchase of goods and services in Congress

Last Sunday, a week after the addition was announced that increased the budget for congressmen’s buffets, Sunday’s Panorama newspaper reported that in January 2022, Parliament approved an allocation of about 315,000 soles to purchase 1,600 meters of carpeting for various premises of the Legislative Palace. . In addition, it was reported that in April last year, the purchase of TVs for the entire Congress in the amount of SGD 138,350 began, and on October 17, 2022, two giant LED screens were installed in the room of Raul Porras Barrenechea after the payment of S/478,352.

After this last denunciation, the President of Congress, Joseph Williamsannounced that there would be a special review of the procurement processes for goods and services conducted last year in Parliament, and asked the Court of Accounts to review all these procedures.

A day later, a senior congressional official, José Sevasco, announced that parliamentary presidency ordered the reorganization General administration department, despite the fact that its current director has been in office for less than two months

“This provided an opportunity to review the various processes, and taking into account what was demonstrated through the press regarding these journalistic revelations, it was decided that the entire General Administration would enter into a process of reorganization in order to improve processes. , improving the quality of spending and improving the quality of human resources,” he said.