Peru's Anticorruption Commission (CAN) —which coordinates efforts against corruption in the Andean country— will be ascribed to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) as part of the strategy to fight this scourge, President Martin Vizcarra announced Tuesday.
As he explained, CAN will not be a distant advisory body offering suggestions or recommendations that may or may not be applied but will be part of the PCM structure with its own responsibilities.
"Thus, we shall be obliged to comply with its demands (...). It will be part of the State organization," he said during the second day of GORE-Executive's (Executive Branch and Regional Governors Meeting) extraordinary session held at Lima's Government Palace.
According to the Head of State, this is a change of particular importance, which will be joined by the application of the National Anticorruption Plan received Monday from CAN.
"We have commissioned the
Prime Minister (Cesar Villanueva) to approve it by supreme decree with the consenting vote of the Council of Ministers," he pointed out.
Mr. Vizcarra stressed that the plan was discussed and improved for more than a year with contributions from civil society, regional governments, the Judicial Branch, the Comptroller General's Office, and the PCM.
"We have a plan, and we are going to apply it. It would be easy to say 'we are going to look through it,' but we want to take firm
decisions against corruption," he emphasized.
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Published: 4/17/2018