The judge advisor to the TdC defended that control of budget execution must be done in real time, which has not been possible in the country, considering that the opinion that the body issues on the General State Account (CGE) "is untimely".
"Because we give our opinion regarding two years ago, when the execution of the following year has already taken place and the next one that is already underway", said the judge this Tuesday during the debates on "Control of the General State Budget (OGE) and its Effectiveness by the Court of Auditors".
On the first day of the days celebrating the 23rd anniversary of the TdC, which last until Friday, Elisa Rangel considered that if Angola does not move towards controlling budget execution in real time, transparency will continue to be compromised.
Because "it gives the feeling that the Court of Auditors and the executive are enemies and that the executive has to hide what it does to the court (...). Therefore, this undermines the control power of the Court of Auditors, which is why it is I say that there has to be a dialogical approach between the three powers [executive, judicial and legislative] so that, in fact, this impasse can be overcome", she observed.
Elisa Rangel, who responded to the questions presented by the audience, after her presentation, understands that the failure to provide timely information on the execution of the OGE translates into an "impasse".
The judge recalled that the National Assembly is a political control body over the Budget, highlighting, however, that parliament does not have the specialized knowledge to carry out the type of control carried out by the Court of Auditors.
"But, if in fact we continue this game of cat and mouse, we will never be able to be a Court of Auditors as it should be", she criticized.
"And we will never be able to say that we are in a democracy, it is not possible. Democracy is not played in this game: now I give [information about the execution of the OGE], now I stop giving it, because it is convenient or it is not", she pointed out.
Elisa Rangel, who is also president of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Auditors, also criticized the constant changes in the Constitution of Angola, approved in 2010, regarding the actions and powers of the TdC, considering that the supreme law presents "regression in many aspects".
"Therefore, the opinion on the General State Account should be, and I think this opinion only arises as necessary, because, in fact, the control of budget execution is not done online, it is not done in real time, there is always there are many obstacles for the court to carry out this control", she lamented.
The problem of controlling Angolan public debt, with at least 57.8 percent of the total expenditure of the 2024 OGE, estimated at 14.3 billion kwanzas, being allocated to servicing internal and external debt, was also raised at the meeting.
In the opinion of the professor of public finance, the country's debt levels are "very high", having argued that debt should be applied to the formation of human capital.
"I am an advocate that social rights, education and teaching, health, are fundamental: an uneducated people, like the ones we have, are weak in every aspect, a people without health, like the ones we have, are a people permanently anemic, has no ability to think, no strength", she concluded.
