After pointing out that processing is now in the hands of Parliament, Garamendi acknowledged that as the bill is at the end of its legislative term, “it will arrive wherever it arrives”. EH Bildu believes that presenting it without time to approve it shows ‘little interest’ in stopping ‘irregular practices’.
Last Tuesday, the Council of Government approved the Euskadi Transparency Law project, which will now be sent to the Basque Parliament for processing. The Minister of Public Administration and Self-Government, Olatz Garamendi, has expressed her “great satisfaction” at having been able to prepare this text, although she has acknowledged that, as it is at the end of the parliamentary term, “it will arrive where it arrives.” EH Bildu has in turn criticized the fact that the presentation of the Transparency Law without time to adopt it shows that Lakua has “little interest in stopping irregular practices”.
The law aims, among other things, to guarantee transparency, citizen participation in public affairs and to facilitate accountability.
Furthermore, this standard provides for the creation of the Basque Transparency Authority – Gardena, an independent guarantee body through which citizens can file a claim when the right to public information is denied or is not what the citizen wishes. Likewise, it will have the ability to impose corrective action solutions and initiate sanction procedures or disciplinary actions.
The bill also provides a sanctions regime for violation of transparency. In this area, these include the obligation to publish the government program of each legislature and the establishment of annual accountability indicators, such as the cost of public services provided, the human resources constituting public employment or the main obligations for the future.
The project was presented by the Minister of Public Administration and Self-Government, Olatz Garamendiwho has expressed his “great satisfaction” at having been able to prepare this text, while recognizing that, as it is at the end of the legislative term, the text “will arrive where it arrives” and that if there is no time in approving it, he expressed the hope that it will later remain an “asset that can be used by Parliament”.
For EH BilduThe fact that the Basque government adopts and presents this bill in the last period of the legislature, without time to approve it in Parliament, “makes clear the level of importance and priority it gives to everything related to policies of transparency and good practices”.
According to the parliamentarian of EH Bildu, Josu Estarrona, “it is the synthesis of what has been the activity of this government to stop bad and irregular practices: pretending to do something when in reality it has hardly done anything, and only if it had to do out of legal obligation and pulled him by the ears.”
Source: EITB
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