Eduardo González
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has disseminated the Government’s recent accountability report among the network of Spanish Embassies abroad with the aim of “sharing” the “Spanish model” in this area with other countries and international organisations.
On 29 December, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, publicly presented the report ‘Cumpliendo’, “an unprecedented accountability exercise in the history of Spain” in which “a detailed quantification is made available to the public of all the commitments made by the Government in different areas and their degree of fulfilment to date, as well as the forecast for their execution over the next six months”, according to Moncloa.
According to the government, “this X-ray of government action is an exercise in transparency, exemplarity and the promotion of permanent improvement in public practice at the service of citizens” and places Spain “at the forefront internationally” in terms of accountability.
Apparently, the government is so proud of its own report that it has decided to share it with the rest of the world through a “strategy of international dissemination of the accountability report”, according to sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The aim, they said, is to “share the Spanish experience and the Spanish model of accountability with other administrations”, for which purpose a version of the report “in English and French” has been distributed among Spanish embassies abroad for distribution among “neighbouring countries and international organisations”.
