The President of the Republic, Nicos Anastasiades received today, at the Presidential Palace, the annual report of the Audit Service for 2021 from the Auditor General of the Republic, Odysseus Michaelides.
Delivering the report, Michaelides said that "the effort every year is to increase both the quality and the volume of work. The audit contributes to better governance on the part of the state. Thank you both for my appointment in 2014 and for working with me through any ups and downs and any issues that had arisen from time to time."
Michaelides also handed over the special reports of the Service, and stressed that the work produced by the Audit Service is collaborative.
For his part, President Anastasiades said "I congratulate and thank you for the audit carried out, the whole process and in general the impartiality, it may sometimes be misinterpreted certain actions, especially with preliminary leaks in terms of preliminary findings before the answer is given, but what matters is the final result. There is a rigorous scrutiny which is both welcome and appreciated, especially when it is substantiated by the respondent's answers. What matters is that, as has been rightly pointed out, there may have been different approaches to some of the issues, not in terms of the rigour of the audit, but in terms of either leaks or findings or sometimes in terms of adhering strictly to the letter of the law which at times is not a refusal to apply the law, but a rigour that creates inflexibility which sometimes results in some damaging consequences for public finances, in the sense that most of the civil servants before the However, this is the minimum in the face of the need for control and I would like to emphasise and underline this. Thank you very much for the long association since 2014. Never in my life have I held any bitterness that may have been created by disagreements etc. They are just human moments for me and nothing beyond that. I hope you continue in the same way with the next ones who will succeed you. I warmly congratulate the management team that thanks to their help the work of the Public Service is made possible," the President concluded.
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