Future president of the Federal Audit Court (TCU), Minister Bruno Dantas said, this Friday (24), that, upon taking office, he will propose the creation of a national ranking of transparency in Brazilian municipalities and a secretariat of consensual public administration.
The declaration took place at the 21st LIDE Business Forum, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, during an event that brought together the country’s main businessmen.
Dantas, who is vice president and current internal affairs officer at TCU, explained that the ranking will allow people to monitor the use of public money in municipalities in areas such as sanitation, health and education, being an instrument enabling society to have more knowledge to to charge managers for the forwarding of resources, in a kind of control of the public sphere.
“For the citizen to cover their rulers. So that he elects his ruler, but is able, six months from now, to identify whether the policies that were promised in the government program are being fulfilled,” he concluded.
According to the minister, a recent report on the ten years of the Access to Information Law (LAI), carried out by the TCU, pointed out that most Brazilian cities do not have a Transparency Portal. The tool allows anyone to check information about budgets, public spending and resource allocation.
“This is one of the pillars that I intend to bring very soon to the direction of the court’s work. The Access to Information Law came to the Federal Government, but not to the municipalities. But people’s lives happen in the municipalities. That’s where we have to take care of basic sanitation. That’s where we feel the violence coming,” she pointed out.
The minister’s idea is to create conditions to establish transparency indicators, taking into account the size and infrastructure of the civil service in each location.
“I cannot demand from the municipality of São Paulo or from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro the same thing that I will demand from the municipality of Alagoinhas, in my state of Bahia. There are questions that are so sophisticated that someone from the countryside of Piauí or from the countryside of Paraíba will not be able to do”, he pondered.
Dantas drew attention to the situation of the Fiscal Audit, which currently has just over two thousand auditors to supervise the taxes and duties of the 5,568 municipalities. The number, however, is insufficient, according to him.
“It is necessary to allow society to supervise. And it can only inspect an organization if it is transparent, if its data is visible to those who want to inspect it”, he defended. “With this, we intend to create a culture of citizenship that engages society in this work, which cannot just be done by the control bodies”, he concluded.
In the month of July, the current president, Ana Arraes, turns 75, the age limit for exercising the position. Bruno Dantas is expected to be the successor.
Source: CNN Brasil
