Decision. President
Pacheco announced the new interpretation after an Advice of
Government.
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Appointment of relatives
Government redefines directive
• Ministers and others heads will not
be able to designate relatives in their offices
Translated from
The Government redefined yesterday a norm
that regulates the designation of relatives in public positions, onlyt two
days after aborting the appointment of Carmen Madriz Contreras to vice
chancellor.
She is daughter of the minister of the
Presidency, Rina Contreras.
After a meeting of ministers, summoned in
hurried form, President Abel Pacheco announced that the ministers and
heads of independent organizations cannot name to relatives to offices.
But it admitted that a relative of a civil
employee can be designated in a position in which there is not hierarchic
relation between both. Even, the possibility that exists they are cabinet
companions, whose head is the President.
Pacheco said that the Government reviewed a
presidential directive - that he was presented the last May - in which it
prohibited the appointment of relatives until the third degree of
consanguinity in ministerial positions, the independent organizations and
positions of confidence.
Madriz explained that, according to that
norm, - who is the ambassador in Salvador - yes could be named vice
chancellor because Lopez would not work in the office of minister
Contreras. And it added that the diplomat was the one who requested not to
be designated for "not harming the Government".
Nevertheless, Tuesday, when it was
consulted by La Nacion on the sense of the directive, replied ': "If
that decree exists, it invalidates the decision (to name to Madriz)".
That same day, the chancellor, Tovar Robert, said that Madriz would not be
designated.
Sources in the cabinet that requested not
to be identified, assured that Tovar had an important role in the reasons
to justify the revision of the directive.
Hard critical
The head of the Citizen Action Party,
Humberto Maple, strongly criticized the constant changes of the President
and affirmed that the redefinition of the norm favors the nepotism in the
public function.
"He is painful and worrisome. The
pernicious effects of the nepotism do not stop a wall. One is not which
the civil employees are in one or another Ministry; the High Commands of
the public administration are one ", asserted Maple.
While, minister Contreras affirmed that if
her daughter had been named vice chancellor there would not be problems,
although they could be in the same cabinet of Pacheco.
"Don Rodrigo Arias (exminister of the
Presidency) was brother of Don Óscar Arias. Don Luis and Doña Aída
Fishman were spouses (both in the cabinet of Rafael Calderón
Angel)", said.
The norm
• the presidential directive that is
applied says:
"Its personnel of confidence
(of the ministers and others heads) will not be able to each other to have
with the civil employee nor familiar bonds until the third degree of
consanguinity and second of affinity".
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"It is difficult to find people who
are not a relative of mine. [No podría dejar al país sin clase
conductora] sic
with such a decree. It would be open to thousands of
interpretations."
Abel Pacheco
President
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