To continue contributing, with greater effectiveness, to a culture of control and prevention in the administrations, is the commitment of the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic for this year, when the 15th anniversary of that body, promoted by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution, is being celebrated.
Headed by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and by the member of the Political Bureau and Vice President of the Republic, Salvador Valdés Mesa, Gladys Bejerano Portela, Comptroller General, focused her presentation on the main objectives, goals and commitments for the present stage, which were discussed by representatives of the sector, in videoconference format, with all the territories of the country, from the Palace of the Revolution.
Bejerano Portela addressed one of the main problems of the system: the completion of the staff, and the training and stability of auditors. He reported that last year 2,791 audits were carried out on the internal control system. Of these, 394 were evaluated as deficient and 251 as poor. He clarified that it is necessary to continue improving the quality of the audits and the training of the administrations.
In 2024, he pointed out, the evaluation of the Implementation of the General Directives of the Government for the prevention and confrontation of crime, corruption, illegalities and indisciplines must advance with greater precision.
The First Secretary of the Party Central Committee shared a group of ideas with the representatives of the Comptroller General of the Republic and the National Auditing System, whom he urged, in addition to all the effort and initiatives they develop to increase the number of auditors, to pay attention to the work environment and go beyond the traditional sources that supply labor force.
After calling to find and enamor young people, and not only those who are in day courses at universities, Diaz-Canel called for increasing the work of auditing in vital sectors, such as fuel, on which, he said, there is no administrative control that is needed; in the implementation of the Plan of the Economy and the State Budget at the grassroots, and do it from the rigor, transparency and participation of workers and the population.
