The approval by the Government (at its 7th Ordinary Session/2020) of a regulation that fixes/establishes sanctions for public servants who do not present the declaration of assets/patrimony in compliance with the legally established deadline, or who do so late, represents a duplication unnecessary if we take into account that the Public Probity Law – LPP, already provides for a set of penalties for the aforementioned situations, but since it was approved in 2012, they have never been applied, at least if it is public knowledge, with the LPP in force. Furthermore, the approval of the regulation demonstrates the Government's lack of strategy in making the asset declaration mechanism effective.

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