Adoption of Law on Guaranteeing of Equality was a very important step, expert

2012 can be considered a rather good year as regards the legislative process. The adoption of the Law on Guaranteeing of Equality on May 25 was a very important step. This law is designed to ensure the implementation of the communitarian directives and European standards on the prevention and combating of discrimination and ensuring of equality in different spheres of life, said Corneliu Gurin, expert of the Association for Participatory Democracy ADEPT. “The Law on Guaranteeing of Equality, which was initially called the Antidiscrimination Law, was adopted rather by force, before a number of Moldova-EU meetings where Moldova was to report on the fulfillment of the earlier commitments and where a decision was to be taken as regards the switch to a new phase of implementing the visa liberalization action plan,” the expert said in an interview for Info-Prim Neo of the series “Year 2012 in Moldova’s and Moldovans”, which was {published on December 21}. Corneliu Gurin considers that the protests against the antidiscrimination regulations were generated by several problems. First of all, the process of promoting the law was managed incorrectly and the people were not sufficiently informed about it. Another reason is the irresponsible and even provoking attitude of the representatives of some political parties, including of the ruling alliance, who even before the appearance of the bill tried to discredit the idea and even said that they are against the new regulations. According to Corneliu Gurin, the given causes made the situation in society tense to a certain extent. “But we see that things calmed down. This shows that the problems were mainly invented. But in the future, the made mistakes should be taken into account and the dealing with important problems should be preceded by serious preparations. We hope that the authorities and the political parties understood this and will adopt relevant approaches,” said the ADEPT expert. Among the laws that determined the reformation of important institutions, I would mention the legislative package of anticorruption reforms, especially those that concern the transformation of the Center for Combating Corruption and Economic Crime into the National Anticorruption Center, and the legislative package of reforms in justice. The Info-Prim Neo interviews of the series “Year 2012 in Moldova’s and Moldovans”, which were launched on December 6, present the opinions of 12 interviewees about the performance of the passing year. The interview with the ADEPT expert Corneliu Gurin is the seventh. The next interviews will be with the director of the National Anticorruption Center Viorel Chetraru, head of the Moldovan communiqué in Quebec, Canada, Ala Mindicanu, Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Vasile Bumacov, singer Cristofor Aldea Teodorovici, and the Representative of the United Nations Population Fund Boris Gilca.