Table is separated from Gea, Uribismo, Santismo and Pastranism.She warns that decisions should be made without looking at political parties, ideological, names and political houses.
360 radio:
Who is Jairo Mesa?
Jairo Mesa (J.M.):
I am a santarrosan of bears, an economist from the University of Medellín, I made a specialization in financial management of the same university and went to work in Bogotá when I was 22 years old;I return six months ago, I see a great possibility of introducing myself to these Comptroller's contests and choosing the Comptroller of Medellín;I did it for the great career that I have at the national level as a superintendent of notaries and registration, delegate registration for the Civil Registry and the identification and deputy manager of Lands of the Incoder, I was also an advisor to Minister of Agriculture and Head of Planning of the Superintendence of Portsand transport.
Among the positions I have had, the one that I have enjoyed was being a planning assistant at the University of Medellín when I started my career and university professor in the economic areas.My trajectory has recognized me to be the World Bank speaker, being a speaker of the World Congress of Registry, being a speaker of great experience such as the IDB for Colombia in a multipurpose cadastre and I have also worked hard in the formulation of laws that have served itTo the country, for example, I was the great promoter and I worked the law of Zidres, Law of Special Zones of Economic and Social Development that settled a very large difference that Colombia had in terms of land accumulation, when there was accumulation, when not,How there was concentration, when not and also allows the development of some regions such as Orinoquía and areas such as Urabá.
I have also worked hard on inspection and control issues from the Superintendence of Registration, eight years working throughout this topic.That made me be enthusiastic by the Supreme Court to be a general auditor of the Nation and I make all this experience available if I am enthusiastic and if the Medellín Council decides to appoint the comptroller.
360:
This election of the Comptroller of Medellín has generated special attention, an almost unprecedented magnifyingtense.What tells the city that today is very vigilant of the Medellín Comptroller's choice process?
J.M.:
Comptroller's position is a technical, non -political position;It is a position of a person who defends the interests of citizenship, their resources, it must be a person who shows the city what is happening with their resources, with its public policies, that shows you public finance indicators the city alldays.A control should not only be dedicated to fiscal processes, which are very important to attack corruption but must also be a person who shows all its inhabitants where their taxes are being left.
Comptrollers have a very big chance to show the country that serve something.Territorial and municipal comptrollers have been stigmatized because they do not show the results they must demonstrate and it is almost always said that it is a pocket comptroller who choose the councils;You have to change that image and work hard on the technification of these comptrollers, to put artificial intelligence, to put Big Data;that citizens participate in that comptroller.
If I were chosen comptroller I think that every eight days I would be in a different commune working with people, looking at the existing problems and seeing how the Comptroller can solve together with the administration or with the competent problems they have because the Comptroller must be the eyeof the people in the municipal administration, that eye that many times the public official does not realize what citizens are asking.Comptrollers cannot be involved in political issues, they cannot be involved in revocation issues, that is not the function of a comptroller, this must be a very independent person to the functions of the administration.
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360:
Is it calm with the process that is being carried out for the choice of comptroller?
J.M.:
Yes, I returned six months ago from Bogotá.I have made some criticism because I am an economist but I feel very calm.I tell critics that the best comptroller Medellín has been economists, are those who have truly shown what money has been invested and how public management has worked.Many times the Comptroller is confused with that person who does justice from a fiscal trial, that is one of the many functions that the Comptroller has.
The Comptroller must look in an integral and strategic way by a manager, not by a justice imparter.
360:
Beyond the criticisms you mention for being an economist, there are attacks that come and go to the existing confrontation.They have said that you are from Gea, who is from the mayor, who is Uribista, who is from the left, who is center;He has received all kinds of accusations.Where is Jairo Mesa?
J.M.:
22 years working in the public sector have made me know many people.When I was in the Superintendence of Notaries and Registry I took a report by Montes de María that logically did not like the Argos group because it showed how they had acquired land without due diligence.I told them that if there was an error in the study, I renounced, or that their lawyers renounce;So far no one has shown me that I had a mistake.When I have had to get reports and dismissals against notaries, curators, registrars that I had to do as a superintendent I never looked at what party it was, I just had to make the most correct decisions according to the Constitution and the law, I never, asComptroller, he would do something to some economic group.The comptroller has to be oblivious to that, if I am or I am not from the GEA, because one as a public official does not belong to any economic group.
If I am a Uribista, if I am Santista, if I am a pastran ... I worked in the government of (Andrés) Pastrana and also in (Álvaro) Uribe and worked in the government of (Juan Manuel) Santos.That does not make me deserve so that I am played from being of a game.If they ask me in which political party I have militated, I say that the only party I have belonged to and comes from the cradle has been the partisan conservator.Nowadays, I have not been a party or registered in any.
360:
His choice would be after a list of Medellín Council is consolidated, a corporation where there are currently three councilors who are without vote but in the same way they will have to consider the three names that are on this grill.
What tells councilors about guarantees, communication and work with them?
Once you are in the list, you have to work with the 21 councilors.They are councilors like that they cannot vote (there are three who cannot do it), they have a voice within the council and have all the participation.An interview is done with each councilor to know me, I am not a known person in Medellín even though I have every family here, I am married to a person who lives in the city and all my heritage is in Antioquia.
I tell the councilors to choose a person who truly transforms the Comptroller, who in four years says: it was worth being the comptroller of Medellín, to turn that image of these comptrollers because it is also the name of the same councilors.It is not useful to measure a person so he did all the processes, that he filed them but that the Comptroller did not have a transcendental change and that truly served for the interests of citizenship.
If I am elected Comptroller, I will be the councilor number 22. Now that I have started studying the sessions of the Council, it is part of a comptroller to be in the debates showing the problems of the city, the solutions and the successes of the same.The administration of Quintero has successes that must be shown, that a comptroller has to attest to him;A comptroller should show that things are doing well.You also have to criticize what is being done wrong to take the corrective in time, it is not worth that the only thing the Comptroller can do is about the corrective sphere, no;The municipal comptrollers, so it is not within their missions, also has to warn what is happening, you have to anticipate before things happen.It must be in the preventive sphere.
You must work hand in hand with the other control agencies, with prosecutors, with prosecutors, when you truly have to work with them.It should not be a persecutor's comptroller or that it is used as a political instrument to attack political groups, he would be a very guarantee person and work for Medellín to progress and that citizens have confidence in the Comptroller.
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