The Comptroller’s Office detected an unusual increase in state contracts before electoral restrictions began.
The Comptroller’s Office raised an alert for an atypical increase in state contracting between November 1 and 7, when $9 billion was committed, much of it on the last day before the Guarantees Law. The agency will investigate possible contractual accelerations and review modalities, values and distribution of resources.
The Comptroller General of the Republic turned on the first alert of the 2026 electoral cycle, after detecting unusual behavior in inter-administrative contracting of the State, during the first week of November.
According to the organization, only On November 7—the last day before the Electoral Guarantees Law came into effect—$6.1 billion were committedwhat the entity described as “an atypical concentration on a single date.”
Between November 1 and 7, The total value of agreements and contracts reached $9 billion, a figure that exceeds the monthly levels recorded this year.
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The The Comptroller’s Office indicated that the peak of November 7 is equivalent to 68% of all hiring for the week. “Only that day, resources were subscribed that represent 2.9 times the monthly average observed between January and August,” said that organization.
The Comptroller’s Office attributed this behavior to possible contractual accelerations prior to the start of electoral restrictions. According to the analysis of the Preventive Monitoring Analytical Model presented on November 10 by that organization, the increase observed that day represents an increase of 190% compared to historical behavior.
The Department of Social Prosperity was the entity with the highest volume of hiringregistering $770,000 million, equivalent to 8.5% of the total committed. The Directorate of Information, Analysis and Immediate Reaction (DIARI) now reviews the details by department to establish how the resources were distributed.
The DIARI, together with the Delegate of Public Management, advances a follow-up on contracts signed in September, October and the first days of Novemberto identify sensitive operations.
“We seek to anticipate risks and issue early warnings that prevent public resources from being used for purposes other than the general interest in the pre-election period,” said the Comptroller’s Office.
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The agency also indicated that it will review the contracting modalities, contractual objects and value variations to determine if there were abrupt changes associated with the closure prior to the Guarantees Law.
Source: Integrated Information System
