The state institutions are not politically controlled, as they say, but these were captured by narrow interests. Not much is now said about the increasing effect of corruption on democracy. In such conditions, there is a risk that we will live in a country where they forget what democracy is, Transparency International Moldova executive director Lilia Carasciuc said 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”, which was organized by IPN in concert with Radio Moldova.
Lilia Carasciuc stated that the politicians delayed reforms and the non-adoption of the package of laws that includes the bill on the prosecution service is a proof of this. Civil society was avoided. There was constituted a so-called group of experts consisting of representatives of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office and the National Anticorruption Center, who ultimately could not come to terms and proposed a bill by which the National Anticorruption Center is to absorb the National Integrity Commission. By this bill, they want this Commission to be captured, as it was done with the National Anticorruption Center. Even if it wasn’t fully efficient, the Commission had the chance of being reformed.
The director of Transparency International Moldova said the government does not really want changes and is pretending to be taking measures. A proof is the intention to create specialized anticorruption courts of law in which international institutions and experts invested expertise and money, but the purpose of these institutions is not clear. The country does not need specialized courts of law as these will do nothing else but concentrate the cases in the same hands, while the politicians want to secure support for particular decisions to be taken in particular cases.
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.
