translated from Spanish: so it will be spending in the new Government

in the management of the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Secretary of the Treasury and public credit will control the spending of the budget carrying the bodies of federal Government and is also responsible for all the procurement, which was not the case in previous administrations.
With the reform of the organic law of the Federal public administration, disappeared the figure of official Mayor of the Secretaries of State and instead work units of administration and finance, – in charge of the Treasury – which will distribute resources in each dependency.
But there are three exceptions: the Secretariat of national defense, Marina and Hacienda, which will retain the post of Chief Clerk.
Administrative changes will impact in three areas, the first: dependencies already will not their own purchases, as it did through the greater Oficialia. Now make the Secretariat of finance, in an attempt to avoid bureaucracy and, above all, corruption, according to the new federal Government argued it directly.
However, Marco Fernández, researcher Mexico evaluates and master of the school of Government of the Tec, ensures that the centralization does not prevent corruption per se, because it is organization trust and responsibility in people who are at the forefront of this area in Hacienda.
This, says María de Jesús Alejandro Quiroz, lecturer in administrative law at the UNAM, means “a yellow focus that could become red focus” with respect to the risk of corruption. Avoid mismanagement will depend on who will be responsible for purchases, under which mechanisms, what indicators and guidelines for purchases that are not yet known.
Second point: efficiency will also be in doubt because shopping needs are very different between the agencies and entities of the public administration. Although everything will be controlled from the greater Oficialia of the Ministry of finance, the level of expertise to make these purchases requiring the Secretariat of communications and transport is not the same in agriculture or in entities such as the IMSS or Pemex, by example.
Give as many powers to the Treasury makes a comparison with “centralizing secretariats” of 1970’s and 1980’s Government PRI who disappeared after confirmed cases of nepotism during the management of José López Portillo; so his successor, Miguel de la Madrid, made reforms to create the larger offices with the intention of strengthening public administration, explains Alejandro Quiroz.
According to the law, Treasury will act as a “consolidating area of procedures for the purchase of goods and services determined by the Ministry”; also you may “exercise the budgetary control of the consolidated public procurement”, and even to decide them on the “international trade negotiations related to purchases and coordinate strategic purchasing”.
The above subtract you power decision to holders of units, as to the last administration, were they who were assigned to his Chief Clerk. Starting this year, those in charge of finance and administration units shall be appointed or removed from the Treasury, which will also set the “organizational and operational model”.
The third point of impact is that finance and administration units have lower hierarchy administratively to a greater Oficialia, which was at the level of Assistant Secretary of State.
This will affect the rest of positions in that area, which in turn will affect the service career of public administration, i.e. the method meritocratic whereby civil servants are certified, obtain greater capabilities and, by as a result, better salary.
The Professor of the UNAM, Jesús Alejandro María, says that while it is necessary to have an efficient public management, to decide to lose weight the structure “you must first prove that it excess to what you want to remove”, therefore it proposes, the federal Government should supported by a Committee of experts for such decisions.

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