One of the most frequent complaints of the Secretaries - Ministers - and the President of the Republic himself during the 2006-2012 government was precisely the excessive number of useless rules they had to meet to perform their functions; that meant a huge delay and high costs in the government's operation.
Un elemento que fortalece la percepción negativa hacia el servicio público es ver a las instituciones públicas como modelo de lo viejo e ineficiente, de lo que no funciona o da resultados y que además genera molestias y costos.