The Minister of Economy and candidate for president of Unión por la Patria (UP), Sergio Massaparticipated in a working group with representatives from national universities, NGOs, and civil society organizations and institutions for the “Commitment to transparency and democracy.”
“This signature of commitment document to promote the integrity system It will be from December 10, if God and the Argentines give me the responsibility of governing, It will be mandatory for each of our government officials to sign.“, the candidate began.
And continued: “It seems central to me to define a first concept, which is that what is public must be more cared for than what is one’s own, because what is one’s own belongs to each person and what is public belongs to everyone.”
“We have to build a stage in which ethics, integrity, the fight against corruption, and transparency are part of our work agenda, within the framework of a government of national unity,” he concluded.
In that sense, he added: “We are going to send and promote the new ethics law, because it sets a floor of conditions and minimum requirements in terms of transparency and efficiency of ‘public affairs’.”
Massa proposed that the Anti-Corruption Office be led by someone from the opposition
“Just as there are control bodies that are specific to the functioning of the Executive or Legislative Branch, that is why the greatest challenge to show our willingness to advance a serious transparency agenda is that Our proposal includes that the Anti-Corruption Office be led by someone proposed and approved by the first opposition bloc.«, he brandished
“Because it is a way to transfer and share responsibilities”hill.
And then he expressed that “we live in a technological age” so “I want every Argentine to be able to control the State accounts online from their cell phone.”
“On June 30, 2024, there cannot be any public agency or company that does not bid, contract and spend in what are the revolving fund mechanisms for direct purchases or electronic bidding.”
At the closing of his presentation, he continued: “In everything that is a conflict of interest, in everything that is control of ethical behavior, we have to take advantage of using Artificial Intelligence as a traffic light and alert mechanism for everything that is the warning regarding conflict of interest procedures, money laundering, crossing the information of each of the entities of the financial system, the control organizations and the tax information available for each citizen, along with the information that access from Argentina to database crossing agreements with almost 170 countries.”
“All this allows us to audit and follow the behavior of officials not only in our territory, but also internationally”he sentenced.
“The transparency issue obliges us more than other political forces, because it is one of the great issues that appear as a permanent pending issue before society.” And he added: “Many times, inefficiency is also corruption, ignorance of the State and its subject when it comes to assuming responsibilities, it is also corruption,” he concluded.