The board of directors of the Congress that ended its functions last August 20, had determined that the The election of the next Comptroller General of the Republic would be brought forward on August 3, but that date was postponed by the new president of the Senate, Roy Barreras.
This was reported by Barreras himself through his Twitter account, saying that the appointment of that high-ranking official It will now be done next Thursday, August 18.
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“The previous board of directors of the Congress of the Republic set August 3 as the date for the election of the Comptroller General, being the first time that such an election was scheduled before the inauguration of the President-elect. We have made the decision to postpone that date,” reported Barreras.
and went on to say: “The new election date for the Comptroller General of the Republic will be Thursday, August 18. And the hearings for the presentation of candidates will be convened on the previous Thursday, August 11”.
This means that the nine members of the final list appointed by the Congress of the Republic to aspire to lead the fiscal control entity, may have more campaign days among legislators of all parties and participate in the public hearing where everyone will be heard.
“In this way, the new candidates included by modification of the list will also have time to make themselves known to the congressmen to whom the Constitution gives the responsibility of electing the new Comptroller,” he said.
The new group of candidates for the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic is made up of the five men and four women who had the best score in the tests carried out by the Industrial University of Santander.
The candidates are:
- Andres Castro Franco,
- Carlos Hernan Rodriguez Becerra,
- Victor Andres Salcedo Fuentes,
- Luis Carlos Pineda Tellez,
- Carlos Fernando Perez Gelves,
- Maria Fernanda Rangel Esparza,
- Elsa Yazmin Gonzalez Vega,
- Diana Carolina Torres Garcia,
- Monica Certain Palma
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Karol González Mora, wife of the former Secretary of the Government of Bogotá Luis Ernesto Gómez, who had been in tenth place on the list, decided to give up her aspiration for the Comptroller’s Officearguing that he preferred to prepare himself better and have more experience in order to be able to present himself later for a position of this nature.
