The Chamber of Deputies approved as modifications the bill “That establishes the regime of prevention, correction and sanction of conflict of interest in the public function”.
Celeste Amarilla, national deputy for the PLRA, explained that the modifications occurred in two articles of the project; article 3 subsection “g” and article 20 subsection “d”. Specifically, in the first article cited, it is about testating a cohabiting spouse or concubine, older children, relatives up to the second degree of consanguinity, including people subject to guardianship and curatorship.
Regarding article 20 subsection “d”, which states that the public official may not intervene directly or indirectly in the companies of his relatives up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, this was limited to the spouse and older children. “It is very difficult to determine that the first cousin, brother-in-law or half brother is such. The procedure will be very cumbersome, so we will end up with actions of unconstitutionality. In order for something to work quickly, we plan to shrink the family group, ”he commented.
