On October 13, 1992, there was also a parliamentary appearance by Mr. Bellon, who was not superfluous to reassure him in this regard: “We do not intend to discover bad things, dirty laundry, among other things because we do not know if there is anything and, therefore, it has no trace.” … sense. We intend to discover what is hidden, and there are things that have been hidden, Mr. Pilon. This is the reason for the appearance. “Perhaps due to lack of practice in managing public funds in the parliamentary system, matters have been kept secret for no reason.”
It was inevitable to review situations that were inexplicable, and which were often bordering on the comic or the surreal. For example, after the grassroots group became interested in the bonuses received by various contractors and Bellone resisted providing such information, he ended up sending a bunch of pages containing an endless list of companies, but modestly reduced the amounts received from the margin; Which was still clear.
“You wasted time, which is money, on the person who made these copies, forcing him to cover parts of the picture, and here two people’s noses that were not sufficiently covered shamelessly stand out. I’ve got you covered with the numbers. (…) To cover this up, you have to copy the images one by one, it takes much longer and, most important of all, you cheat the parliamentary oversight, which is what I did. This is dangerous. Why are you hiding your numbers from us, Mr. Bellon? Why wasn’t everything displayed at a world’s fair? Everything has been revealed except Mr. Pilon’s numbers.
A well-known reprimand became obligatory. “Logically, if you contract with the state, you know that the terms of the contract must be known to the appropriate party, who will then use that information reasonably, and so far there is not a single reason to reprimand any member of my group for having used the information received unreasonably. By denying this data, you do two things: first, you create ex-ante censorship, prohibited by the Constitution, under which you are the one who will decide whether or not I will unreasonably use the information you give me.” Neither you nor anyone else has the right to carry out this censorship. advances.”
“No, Mr. Pilon, you are explaining the issues here and you are not inviting me to go and see the file. Just don’t hide the numbers from me. Don’t invite me to see the file. As long as it doesn’t cover the numbers, I’m satisfied. Then, when I study the numbers, maybe I’ll look at the file, but, first of all, it doesn’t cover the numbers. Something that simple. “It’s not about asking for the moon.” “You don’t have to invite anyone anywhere. We invite newspapers to come here. If you come, and you have a lot of things to do, there will be a lot of papers that have nothing to do but dust.
Obviously I was optimistic. When, because of this strange situation, I appealed to the President of the Congress – Dr. Felix Pons: I was very disappointed. He did not hesitate to emphasize that the Council’s regulations do not aim to “ensure the physical movement of original documents or copies of them,” but rather to “facilitate the best performance of the parliamentary function of representatives.” She assumed that in “the vast majority of cases this knowledge is obtained through a copy sent by the administration, but in some cases, the nature of the subject matter to which the documents refer or the volume of data or information to be accessed has made it necessary to obtain this knowledge not by physically transferring a copy from the public archives, but by making these files and records available unconditionally.”
This means leaving it in the hands of the executive to decide what interests or no longer interests the representative – who is tired of seeing how in public appearances they avoid specifying any information in the shipments that cover part of the documents – and invites him to go on a trip to Seville, to the archives, to check what they are good at teaching him, and without having the time – unless he grants himself a parliamentary leave – to analyze and study the content; It is impossible to solve the problem with just a visual inspection. Signing the nice presidential letter on December 28 – the Holy Innocents Day, as it is known – does not diminish the seriousness of the situation.