In the midst of his political campaign, President Gustavo Petro promised to do some transformations in the functioning of the Casa de Nariño. The person in charge of this task was former senator Mauricio Lizcano, recently appointed director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency (Dapre).
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According to the senior official, the process to determine the new structure of the Presidency it may take about 15 days, to the extent that until now the respective studies have begun.
Among the decisions that have already been made is a cut of the order of 60% in terms of number of entities attached to the Presidency. Specifically to councils. Consequently, the only one that remains is that of the High Commissioner for Peace, to the extent that it is law and that this government has a great commitment to what it has called ‘total peace’.
Lizcano, in addition, will have to make the restructuring proposal to which President Petro will give the final word.
In accordance with the regulations of the country, the new government has the power by law to reform the Presidency, yes, after a study of the Public Function and the Treasury. Currently the Presidency It has 12 ministries and they plan to reduce it to a maximum of four.
Another of the changes that are evaluated is to review the management model. In this process it has been established that the general secretariatwhile the private secretariat merges with the Dapre.
In this way, the new general secretary will be Mauricio Lizcano. The official also spoke of the new government’s austerity plan. “What we are going to eliminate are contractors that duplicate functions, the same ones that are already in the plant, we are going to eliminate, sorry, they have 10-20 contracts that have nothing to do with each other, what we are going to eliminate are the ties and the bureaucracyPetro said.
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Given this, Lizcano told W Radio that they are 120 the positions that will remain vacant during the entity deletion process. Likewise, there will be a reduction of between 40% and 50% in contractors of the Presidency.
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With information from EL TIEMPO*
