Amidst the discussions regarding the liquidation of the 2024 General Budget, Claudia Marcela Numa Páez, Director of the National Public Budget, He resigned from his post. According to Portafolio newspaper, the resignation was requested by President Gustavo Petro himself. National Planning Director Jorge Iván González.
Minister of Finance Ricardo Bonilla met yesterday precisely because of the controversial situation of this year’s money. Andi president Bruce Mac Master and Colombian Chamber of Infrastructure (CCI) president Juan Martín Caicedo. At the meeting, union spokesmen expressed to the head of this portfolio their concerns not only about this situation, but also about its impact.
At the end of the meeting, the business leader issued his own decision. Mac Master also pointed out that Bonilla told them that “in the coming days they will issue administrative regulations that will fully clarify all doubts” regarding this situation.
This is a decree that must correct the irregularity that has not been determined in the determination of the Government’s investment budget for 2024 at 13 billion pesos. Portafolio even states that Numa will leave due to repeated returns. Since the Casa de Nariño will try to preserve the global items, this is left to him from the decree, which is his responsibility.
The final document will be shared with the Financial Affairs Department, which is following the issue closely. thus ensuring that the year’s budget execution corresponds to the specific projects included in the Budget.
The National Public Budget Director of the Ministry of Finance took office in November 2019. Prior to that, he served as deputy director of Budget Analysis and Consolidation, a position he held since 2006; Likewise, he worked at the Department of National Planning (DNP).
Numa is a systems engineer from the Autonomous University of Colombia and a specialist in Software Engineering from the Regional University of Francisco José de Caldas. He came to the address in Minhacienda, replacing Fernando Jiménez.He took over the direction of the Pension and Parafiscal Management Unit of the same portfolio.
Numa Páez’s permanence would begin to become complicated when errors revealed during the December 29 purge were revealed in the 2024 National Budget, approved by Decree No. 2295 of 2023. The government did not separate the expenditure supplement from the Budget liquidation decision established by the Organic Budget Regulation and did not distinguish between the investment sources of the four sectors.
This resulted in the elimination of 108 non-discriminatory products worth close to 13 billion pesos. This affects 65 projects of the National Road Institute (Invías), 24 projects of the National Infrastructure Agency (ANI), 11 projects of the Ministry of Education and a number of tasks managed by the Treasury related to public transport and the country’s railway systems.
These inconsistencies immediately caused alarm among former ministers and experts, as well as the business sector; They also agreed that these mistakes needed to be corrected immediately, given the negative impact they could have on the country.
“About 11 billion pesos were masked as global items that then, as if magically, appeared fragmented in the liquidation decree to be appointed and authorized by the Executive,” he said. Former Finance Minister Juan Camilo RestrepoHe explained that the items left in the hands of the government were suitable for politics.
Additionally, former Deputy Minister of Finance Juan Alberto Londoño pointed out that sectors that were not initially subjected to this discrimination will face difficulties in using them.
The National Unity Council stated:Generating the idea that these commitments may eventually not be fulfilled or may be subject to renegotiation attempts creates great uncertainty for developers and financiers who have relied on the seriousness of the State in the past”.
Source: Exame
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