The MPs gave a first reading to the National Integrity and Anticorruption Program for 2024-2028 and the Action Plan for its implementation. According to the authors, the document aims to eradicate grand and systemic corruption existing in a number of areas, IPN reports.

Lilian Carp, chairman of the parliamentary commission for national security, defense and public order, said in Parliament that the program was drafted by the National Anticorruption Centre. But because the Center does not have the right to submit legislative initiatives, the draft was signed by a group of MPs of the Party of Action and Solidarity.

“The specific general objectives of the National Integrity and Anticorruption Program for 2024-2028 represent a continuation of the processes that were previously launched and implemented based on the National Integrity and Anticorruption Strategy for 2017-2023, which was an important anticorruption policy document designed to reduce corruption, with a complex and multidimensional approach. The program aims to diminish corruption and amplify the degree of integrity in the public and private sectors by setting a series of general objectives,” stated Lilian Carp.

Four general objectives were set out in the document, namely optimizing integrity standards in the public sector, streamlining measures to prevent and combat corruption and ensuring the inevitability of punishment for corruption offenses, cultivating integrity and diminishing corruption acts in the private sector, including in entities with full or majority state capital, and cultivating intolerance for corruption acts, as well as encouraging the denunciation of corruption acts and illegal practices.

The current program expires at the end of 2023 and the adoption of an updated document is one of the commitments assumed for the implementation of the Association Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union.