He stressed that Panama is subscribed to the Open Government Alliance, an initiative that is global and proposes that countries voluntarily discuss different issues that interest citizens, promote change and structures of openness and transparency.
The lawyer and executive director of the Foundation for the Development of Citizen Freedom, Olga de Obaldía, addressed this Monday about a training that they will provide from Tuesday to Thursday called “Panama: Towards a transparent budget.”
He stressed that Panama is subscribed to the Open Government Alliance, an initiative that is global and proposes that countries voluntarily discuss different issues that interest citizens, promote change and structures of openness and transparency.
“For the fourth Open Government national action plan, we presented to the MEF and Antai, the proposal to have a commitment so that Panama begins to walk towards budget transparency. We have a budget law that is four to five decades old that is below and outside all international standards of budget transparency,” he explained.
In Obaldía’s opinion, “the Panamanian budget is political loot that moves from year to year, according to where the politicians consider they want to see the investment money and it does not necessarily obey the evidence, the statistics, the need to the population and this project of open budgets what it seeks is to change this paradigm”.
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