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Criteria for choosing officials Combita

Nicolas Lynch says Controller: technical or political? :

The big fiasco that has resulted so far in the APRA government appointment of the new Controller is to base a serious mistake. We have sold the species in recent times that the Controller has to be a technician. No wonder the Commission failed course
competition had two notorious liberal and Richard Webb, and Beatriz Boza.

Who can fit into his head that someone is going to control the use of public resources must be primarily a technician? Nothing more than a neoliberal. The devil may have all doctorates in the world and it would still be evil. control of public resources has to be done by a politician, ie someone with a vocation for public service and understanding of the dynamics of power and state affairs. This of course does not mean that also has the academic and professional training necessary to undertake the task. But not vice versa. Do not take the wrong end of the leaves!

Comment: Two things.

1. In the evaluation committee was not just Webb and Boza, but Blondet and Garatea. If you are going to classify the members of this commission something, for example, "neoliberal" Why not extend the rating at all? "Neoliberal and Garatea as Blondet." Do not leave them also to justify the criteria of the commission? It seems here the rule applied in the case of my friend, I look the other way around and say nothing. In fact Garatea Blondet and were most visible figures on the commission, which aired defending Lynch criticizes the criteria. 2. How is it that "control of public resources should be in charge of a politician? "Definitely, the pubic service should have the choice of the Comptroller, rather than the experience in the private sector. This is already an issue of transferability of specific human capital. Better to have a school professional staff training, type the BCR, with admission transparent, competitive, trained within the institution. Thus the public institution as their own people and when the elections are a range of people prepared for the job. However, we note that this means that the comptroller should be a "public servant", which is not the same as "a politician." Nothing to do. The politician is (should be) a public servant, but not every public servant is a politician. What seems to be happening is that Lynch's article, as it excludes Blondet (Minister of the Cabinet he formed) and Garatea (who perhaps as a cure can not hit him), now writes an article named own, to support someone, indeed, more political profile of public servant as Humberto Campodonico.

This is putting the cart before the horse. First you must set the criteria and based on people they elect. The first mentioned article looks at the people and accommodate them based on criteria very whim.