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To evaluate concerning the quality and efficiency of the internal fiscal
control of the entities and organs of the State.
To present to the President of the Republic and to the Parliament an annual
report concerning and fulfillment of its functions and certify with respect to
the situation of the finances and accounts of the State.
To promote before the competent authorities, providing the respective
evidence, criminal or disciplinary investigations against those that have
caused prejudice to the patrimonial interests of the State. Under its
responsibility, the Accounts’ Tribunal can require, wise truth and good faith
[verdad sabida y buena fe guardada], the temporary suspension of
functionaries until the investigations or the respective criminal or
disciplinary processes culminates.
To present projects of laws regarding the regime of fiscal control, the
organization and the functioning of the Accounts’ Tribunal.
Any other functions that the law attributes to it.
Article 119
The results of the preliminary investigations advanced by the Accounts’ Tribunal will
have evidentiary value before the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic and
before the competent judge.
Article 120
The law will develop the structure and functioning of the Accounts’ Tribunal.
Article 121
The law will determine the manner of exercising control and vigilance over the
management of the Accounts’ Tribunal.
• Ombudsman
Chapter X: Of the Defender of the People
Article 122
The Defender of the People is the high commissioned of the Chamber of Deputies
and the Senate, designated by them for the defense of the rights of citizens included
in this Fundamental Law, to which effect, he can supervise the activity of the
Administration, giving notice to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
Article 123
The Defender of the People will be elected by the Chamber of Deputies and the
Senate, and will be ratified by the President of the Republic, for a period of five years.
Equatorial Guinea 1991 (rev. 2012)
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