103 candidates presented themselves for the election of the chief state controller. Only 48 took the written test, which was the last step in defining the winner of the public competition conducted by a committee of citizens determined by lottery by the CPCCS.

Dear reader, if you read the editorials, you are a member of the minority that is more informed than the average in the country. Do you really know what the controller is called? Do you know how many citizens make up that commission and what its function is, how the draw was conducted and is it transparent? In fact, some members of the CPCCS questioned the process of appointing that citizens’ commission due to the lack of transparency.

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But there were also criticisms of the exam: that it was absurd, with outdated and repeated questions and mistakes.

Citizens do not understand this process, nor do they really participate in it. It’s so cumbersome and convoluted that it creates apathy in trying to figure out what’s really going on.

And in this process, the committee, far from being a representative of citizens, can be a representative of politically organized groups that seek other interests.

The “wonderful constitution of Montecristi”… put us on this real crossroads… to appoint a controller.

After the exam, the CPCCS finally evaluates the candidates. But the civic commission is now questioning the CPCCS: accusing it of meddling in the appointment. On the other hand, the SPCCS submitted a report to the Prosecutor’s Office against two members of the commission. And to make things even more impossible, Judge Samborondóna ordered the suspension of the process due to the protection filed by the applicant.

The “miraculous constitution of Montecristi”, under the pretext that “the people elect the controlling authorities”, put us in this right via crucis, in this aberration to appoint a controller.

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How was it before when the “perverse partiocracy” elected him? Simple: in front of the eyes of all of Ecuador, the President of the Republic presented a shortlist of virtuous citizens, who became visible to all Ecuadorians before the Congress chose one of them. After that, the parliament openly discussed who and why someone from the shortlist should be controller, and one of the candidates was elected. If we see the names of those who were controllers in those times, who were considered “dark” by Montecristi’s administrators, we will find blameless citizens who held that office. Names such as Federico Intriago Arrata, Ángel Felicísimo Rojas, Ruperto Alarcón Falconí, Víctor Hugo Bayas Valle, Rafael Armijos Valdivieso, Solón Espinoza, Hugo Ordóñez, Osvaldo Molestina, Juan Carlos Faidutti are part of that extensive list of famous citizens who are for the space of this column it cannot be complete.

And the Comptroller’s Office has never been the victim of a scandal, and now that “the people have established” that institution, it has found itself in the eye of a hurricane like never before in history.

The farce of the Montecristi Constitution cannot continue to be a straitjacket that, among other factors, prevents this country from moving forward. (OR)