Much information was already in the public domain – The Truth

Much information was already in the public domain – The Truth

It is one of the flagship measures of the Government. An initiative that the government of Mariano Rajoy seeks placed at the same level as other countries that enjoy years of a policy of greater openness in information. But yesterday who unraveled the headings and subheadings of the ‘transparencia.gob.es’ page also perceived gaps in the current law are left to be filled.

The more than half a million files collecting Transparency Portal is the sum, in many cases, information that heretofore appeared in other spaces available for citizens. The legislative texts containing the Official Gazette and contracts registered before the Platform for Public Sector Procurement is data already in the public domain. Nor is new statistical information to have turned the various ministries, in which there is enough variability. So, Health and Social Affairs includes links to figures waiting list, but does so with the Unit, which practically left out of despite the Imserso has very comprehensive annual statistics portal.

The focus is from noon yesterday in the remuneration charged by members of the General Administration, virtually the only novelty. In this section, only you can know the salaries of those who belong to the upper echelons general managers. That is, trusted personnel working in ministries at lower levels is protected by the law of transparency and out of reach of citizens.

The need to get a key or have electronic ID documents to claim provokes complaints

The Most

The main criticism came yesterday, however, on the need to get an official key or have electronic ID to demand information through the portal. Organizations working for institutional transparency, and Access Info Europe and Civio Foundation, criticized the “barriers to access.” The procedure, however, explains Moncloa, tries to prevent impersonates any other citizen. Therefore, the system calls in one way registration bank account to verify the applicant’s data. In any case, the Government admitted yesterday that are matters of polishing. “It seems logical that we are not yet at the level of other countries that take longer in this,” defended the Secretary of State for Parliamentary Relations.

Political Battle

The PSOE, however, focused on the declarations of assets of 257 officials have not been published. Include some ambassadors, protesting socialist sources such as Federico Trillo, “or advisors of the Deputy Prime Minister.” “Tell me what you brag and tell you what you lack,” summed up the Socialist deputy Isabel Rodriguez. The comment did not sit well in the Executive, who argue that the transparency law is subject to the same regulations drafted the PSOE and compelling, according Moncloa, to publicize the heritage of all those appointed and dismissed charges since July 2013.

The agreement between popular and socialist was not possible when choosing the two MPs to be integrated into the Transparency Council, the body that will oversee the operation of the rule. The PP ended up proposing the deputy of his group, Pilar Cortés, and a pact with the PNV that Jokin Bildarratz is a member of the Senate.