Constitución en Inglés

200 constituteproject.org Colombia 2021 The Office of the Auditor General of the Republic will perform an annual certification of territorial comptrollers based on management indicators. Based on this input, when there is evidence of a lack of objectivity and efficiency, the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic will intervene administratively in the Territorial Comptroller Offices and assume their powers. Departmental, district, and municipal comptroller offices will exercise, in the scope of their jurisdiction, functions attributed to the Comptroller General of the Republic in Article 268 as relevant, according to the principles of coordination, concurrence, and subsidiarity. The control exercised by the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic will be preferential under the terms determined by law. Departmental, district, and municipal comptrollers will be elected by Departmental Assemblies and Municipal and District Councils, from a short list of those who obtain the highest score in a public competitive examination in accordance with the law, following the principles of transparency, publicity, objectivity, citizen participation, and gender equity, for a term of four years that may not coincide with the term of the corresponding governor or mayor. No comptroller shall be reelected for a subsequent term. In order to be elected departmental, district, or municipal comptroller, one must be Colombian by birth, a citizen in exercise of civil rights, and more than twenty-five years old, and must hold a university degree and meet the other criteria established by law. The position is forbidden to persons who are or have been in the last year members of the assembly or council responsible for the election, and to persons who have occupied a