Transparencia, buen gobierno y derecho de acceso a la información pública

Abstract

The publicity has an effect of legitimization and democratization of the system, because it allows to keep the citizenship informed about public matters in order to participate with freedom and responsibility and, consequently, to demand accountability to public offices. These objectives of high democratic value require within the culture of transparency that public powers assume obligations that link them beyond the principles of action. Hence, transparency requires specific obligations and the guarantee regulation of a right of access to citizenship that entitles it to request more information than those that respond by complying with the principle of active publicity. We will address the aspects of the right of access in the regulation given by the state law and in the LGT, putting the accent on the deficits and proposing solutions.