The executive director of the Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT) Igor Botan said that we should better go through the purgatory of early legislative elections, where the current politicians will be harshly penalized by the voters, than to witness a new re-formation based on the same mechanisms and with the same participants. In the public debate “Re-forming of anticorruption system: necessities and realities. SCOs’ statement “Simulation of reformation of the justice and anticorruption system in Moldova”, staged by IPN News Agency in partnership with Radio Moldova, the IPN project’s standing expert stated that a possible re-forming is nonsense if it is done with the same parties and the same leaders.
Igor Botan said cardinal changes are needed to the re-formation mechanism. This process is similar to a computer and can be restarted, but will not work if it is corrupted or the program is defective and new kinds of measures are required. During six years, the people have been indulgent towards the government and thus saw the state being robbed. It’s now time for the population to exert pressure and all the current and future politicians should be treated with maximum severity. Even if the system is re-formed, the re-formation should not take place in the way wanted by the politicians.
The expert noted that to fight corruption, which is the main scourge, we should not only adopt laws, but should first of all cut the tentacles from informal command centers that spread to the institutions designed to protect the public interests because no progress can be reached otherwise. Now the country is robbed by those who promised the European integration and that the Republic of Moldova will have investments and will fight corruption. But these promises haven’t been delivered during six years. It’s better to have early parliamentary elections and go through the voters’ purgatory than to implement the same mechanisms.
The public debate “Re-forming of anticorruption system: necessities and realities. SCOs’ statement “Simulation of reformation of the justice and anticorruption system in Moldova” is the 47th installment of the series of debates “Developing political culture by public debates” that are supported by the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
