Representatives of the Ecologist Green Party (PVE) of Moldova plead for the creation of a social climate of honesty and openness, which would transfer corporation to the category of unacceptable phenomena. They said positive results in the fight against corruption can be obtained by the political will of the leaders and by anticorruption legislation. The PVE expresses its support for all the organizations and even parties that want 2019 to be declared the anticorruption year.
In a news conference at IPN, PVE member Natalia Yatsko said the Ecologist Green Party of Moldova condemns corruption. The party is for a clean and honest environment as corruption is the main evil in the Republic of Moldova and this phenomenon penetrated the social sphere, especially education institutions. Therefore, the students and teachers should be the first to make common cause and fight in this regard.
“The Green Ecologist Party struggles for transparency in all the social areas – education, sanitary system, the judiciary. Recently, the European Union reminded the Moldovan authorities of the shortcomings in the fight against corruption and money laundering and asked them to focus namely on this area,” stated Natalia Yatsko.
PVE member Dinu Manole, master of law, said that besides the problems related to the environment and ecology, corruption is also a key issue at European level addressed by the ecologist green parties. A report compiled by MEPs of the Group of the Greens shows the costs of corruption in the EU are estimated at €904 billion. This money could be used to solve a series of challenges of the millennium, for example, to bring famine worldwide to an end, to offer basic education to all the children in the EU from families with low incomes, to eliminate malaria and supply drinking water globally.
In the European Union, regardless of the dominant ideology in the member states, after the countries become members, the level of corruption diminishes. The EU tends continuously towards an efficient and transparent mechanism so as to assess the impact of the anticorruption measures in all the member states and even has legal instruments that enable the European Commission and the European Anti-Fraud Office to develop a robust anticorruption policy, stated Dinu Manole, who is specialized in anticorruption.
In another development, Dinu Manole said severe punishments will not be efficient if legal support is not provided and the legislation is not applied efficiently. The PVE recommends ethically regulating, especially the relationship between the public sector and the business community, and ensuring a predictable financial and budgetary process, using strategic planning and performance indicators, ensuring transparency in the process of selecting candidates for public posts on a contest basis, using citizen participation and accountability mechanisms and dialogue with civil society and ensuring the monitoring of the observance of ethical standards. The ministers are encouraged to declare their monthly costs, travel expenses, the received presents and other relevant information.
The Greens recommend to successfully implement the principle of meritocracy. According to them, the public functionaries should be chosen, promoted and remunerated according to capacities and efficiency. The appropriate remuneration considerably diminishes their willingness to become involved in corruption practices. They also recommend carrying out a performance audit to see if the principles of rationality and efficiency in spending public funds at the audited institutions were taken into account.
