The President of the Republic Mr.Nicos Anastasiades received today, at the Presidential Palace, the annual report of the Audit Service for 2021 from the Auditor General of the Republic Mr.
Delivering the report, Mr. Michaelides said that "the effort is every year to increase both the quality and volume of work. Audit contributes to better governance on the part of the state.
Thank you both for my appointment in 2014 and for working with any ups and downs and any issues that had arisen from time to time."
Michaelides also delivered 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 generally 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 tight control, which is both welcome and appreciated, especially when it is documented based on the respondent's answers. What is important is that, as is rightly pointed out, there may have been different approaches to some of the issues, not in terms of the rigor 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 rigor that creates inflexibility that sometimes results in some damaging consequences for public finances, in the sense that most of the civil servants before t These are just human moments for me and nothing more. I hope that you will continue in the same way with the next ones who will succeed you. I warmly congratulate the management team who, thanks to them and their help, the work of the Civil Service is made possible."
(PM/EP/SX)
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