The current anticorruption system needs to be re-formed, but this re-formation should be complex and veritable and should involve new upright political forces, selected out of the existent ones, which weren’t discredited. At the same time, all the theories concerning re-formation are nonsense because there is political control and interests within the captured institutions of the system. The current crisis can be overcome only through the pressure of the people who will harshly penalize the lack of political will at the possible early elections, which are a solution. The opinions were stated 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 is the 47th installment of the series “Developing political culture by public debates”, staged by IPN News Agency in partnership with Radio Moldova.
ADEPT executive director Igor Botan, who is the project’s standing expert, said the country is now 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 not for the first time that mechanisms needed to overcome the current crisis are proposed. “This is the sixth attempt made to re-form the system, by the same parties and leaders, and this re-formation is useless if a veritable change in this mechanism is not made. It’s better to have early legislative elections and go through the voters’ purgatory than to implement the same mechanisms,” stated Igor Botan.
Arcadie Barbarosie, director of the Institute for Public Policy, said that a series of surveys showed that the people no longer trust the current political class because no political will is shown, the reforms and corruption fighting are simulated and what we see is a struggle for control over the state institutions. Society should wake up, react and push the politicians towards a correct direction. Going through the purgatory of elections is a solution and we should not be afraid of this exercise. The protests resulted in the creation of a new party, which can be an alternative for the people who want changes and wait for new political forces.
Lilia Carasciuc, executive director of Transparency International Moldova, noted that the state institutions are not politically controlled as they say, but were captured by narrow interests. Even if the political forces are changed, there is a risk that those persons who hold control will switch from one party to another. Not much is now said about the 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.
Liberal-Democratic MP Tudor Deliu said that complete anarchy is now witnessed in Moldova because all those who hold power do not realize that corruption is the biggest scourge and if the fight against it is simulated by all kinds of bills, this scourge will continue to affect society. The priorities included in the plans of action in time are mainly the same, but now the PLDM no longer wants to form a coalition for the sake of coalitions and will insist on the conditions it put forward earlier. The party will struggle to achieve these objectives even if early elections could take place and even if it could lose these because there is another greater risk – that of being penalized for being loyal to a noxious system.
Member of the Political Bureau of the Liberal Reformist Party, ex-MP Valeriu Saharneanu said that for a rather long period we have witnessed the undermining of the law. The current power is no longer legitimate and society should resort to the most drastic legal measures to remove it. To ensure veritable re-formation, we need political will and each of those who come to power need to respect the Constitution and to show courage and express their dissatisfaction with the acts of corruption and wrongdoings. The purgatory of elections is a solution, but this thing should take place simultaneously with the freeing of the captive state institutions.
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.
