{"id":7441,"date":"2021-08-05T12:25:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T12:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civicspaceguardian.directoriolegislativo.org\/?p=7441"},"modified":"2021-08-05T12:30:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T12:30:02","slug":"the-government-aims-to-restrict-by-law-the-access-to-sworn-statements-of-public-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civicspaceguardian.directoriolegislativo.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/05\/the-government-aims-to-restrict-by-law-the-access-to-sworn-statements-of-public-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"The government aims to restrict by law the access to sworn statements of public officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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On July 13, the Minister of the Interior, Juan Carlos Bidegain, presented before the Legislative Assembly a <\/span>bill<\/span><\/a> that seeks to modify substantial aspects of the <\/span>Law on Access to Public Information<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

– by defining as \u2018confidential\u2019 the wealth declarations of public officials.<\/span><\/p>

– by proposing a new mechanism that will hinder access to information by granting more discretion to the head of the Institute of Access to Public Information (IAIP in Spanish) to make decisions without the approval of IAIP commissioners.<\/span><\/p>

The proposals follow previous measures to defang IAIP set out in a series of <\/span>decisions<\/span><\/a> made between October and December 2020.<\/span><\/p>

The move has been denounced by Asociaci\u00f3n Transparencia, Contralor\u00eda Social y Datos Abiertos (TRACODA) and Fundaci\u00f3n Democracia, Transparencia y Justicia (DTJ), among other NGOs, as a further attempt to strip power and autonomy from the body. It was also harshly criticized by nine organizations – among them Acci\u00f3n Ciudadana, Centro de Estudios Jur\u00eddicos, Fundaci\u00f3n para el Debido Proceso, Fundaci\u00f3n Democracia, Transparencia y Justicia – which stated in a letter to the Assembly that the changes “will eliminate the effectiveness and usefulness of the current law to the detriment of transparency and accountability”.<\/span><\/p>

However, with the ruling party in the Assembly counting on 64 out of its 84 seats, it is likely the reform will be approved shortly and with few if any modifications. <\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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