The candidates for the post of Cabinet member, proposed by the candidate nominated for premiership Ion Sturza, signed integrity statements in an event staged by civil society on January 3. The model of the statement was worked out by a working group consisting of representatives of nongovernmental organizations, IPN reports.
In the opening of the event, Transparency International Moldova executive director Lilia Carasciuc said that the last few years saw the confidence in the country’s administration declining and when Ion Sturza proposed signing an integrity statement, civil society became involved and created a working group that drew up the model of this statement.
According to Lilia Carasciuc, the statement confirms that the future minister hasn’t been involved in the commission of offenses, tax evasion and acts related to corruption and corruptive behavior; haven’t been convicted and do not have criminal cases against them sent to court for such deeds. The candidates also declared that they haven’t been involved in the obtaining of unjustified (non)patrimonial advantages and in cases of conflicts of interests and haven’t violated the electoral legislation during the previous elections.
Before the signing process, Ion Sturza said he wants a Government that would be the expression of the people’s will. But the Republic of Moldova is now not in a happy moment when democracy is flourishing, but in a profound, first of all moral and then economic and political crisis. Any Government should consist of patriots, upright and professional persons. “We discussed these criteria during my consultations with political parties and civil society when I was mandated to form the Government. The first intention was to create an apolitical Government, but I resorted to the formula ‘technocratic Government’,” said the candidate.
Petru Macovei, chairman of the Association of Independent Press and member of the working group that composed the integrity statement, said the people want such statements to be signed by functionaries of all the levels because they manage public money. Civil society will scan these statements and will publish them and will be the first critic when the members of the Sturza Cabinet violate the principles to which they subscribed.
On January 4, Ion Sturza will present the government program and the team with which he intends to implement it in Parliament. The Government is invested by at least 51 votes.
