Adriana Urrutia after the resignation of a senior officer: “The president of the Congress should also take over the duties”

President of the Transparency Civil Association, Adriana Urrutiain dialogue with RPP newspointed out that the recent resignation of José Sevasco as Mayor of the Parliament should be accompanied by the reporting of the President of the Congress, Joseph Williams, about alleged excessive spending on goods and services in this state power.

“It is important that the Speaker of Parliament be held accountable. Senior officer, but the president of the Congress must be responsible for his own government, and take upon himself the duties that arise under his government. And not only him, but the whole Board of Directors who makes these kinds of decisions; take responsibility,” he said.

However, he considered it “very unlikely” that this would happen. Likewise, he called it “an aberration” for the national representation to incur excessive expenses.

“It is a delusion that in a country where there is a food crisis (…), we are talking about buffet 80 soles for representatives of the nation. And in a country where there is a social crisis, the exercise of political representation has led to the issue of public debate related to how congressmen dine, carpets for them, parking lots for congressmen, ”he said.

urrutia deems it necessary to reform Congress “that never again will congressmen who receive a substantial salary (…) which enables them to feed themselves from their own resources” incur this kind of excessive expense.

What does he teach us Congress Because they raise the alarm, demand a decision, and then the parliamentarians act as if nothing had happened,” he said.

“Need” to investigate the prosecutor’s office

With regard to the investigation that was carried out prosecution With regard to these excessive expenses, the president of Transparencia felt that clarifying the facts was a “necessary action”.

“The necessary action (…) is to collect information about the situations that led to these decisions, about the decision-making process within parliament on the contracting of a buffet, the purchase of carpets at an inflated price, including,” he said.

urrutia pointed out that when organic control systems are “relaxed”, “there is an increased risk of arbitrary decisions or processes that lead to abuse of power and promote corruption”.

“An investigation launched prosecution It is very important to collect information about the decision-making process (…) that led to such actions in parliament,” he said.

“I believe that this investigation should allow us to obtain these elements, identify those responsible and initiate a process of change in management. parliament”, he added.

On the other hand, the president Transparency He argued that there is a demand that the majority of the population demands, and that Congress doesn’t answer.

“In the latest IEP poll, parliamentary approval was found in almost 6% of the country’s population, with some territorial differences. On South Congress has 3% approval. This means that citizens believe that parliamentarians do not take into account national requirements,” he explained.

“More than 70% of the population is demanding elections (…) We are in a moment of political crisis that requires political measures to resolve this crisis. We citizens are not going to solve the crisis because they demand national measures (…) It is expected that this will be in a space in which 130 Peruvian men and women have been chosen to make these collective decisions, and they do not,” he stressed.