It’s better not to adopt a given law than not to apply the adopted law, ADEPT expert

Moldova’s legislation is being improved, but needs to be seriously strengthened by institutional mechanisms and a multitude of resources that would ensure the efficiency of the regulations and their proper implementation. It is better not to adopt a given law than not to apply the adopted law, considers the expert of the Association for Persecutory Democracy ADEPT, Corneliu Gurin “The non-implementation of the laws stimulates legal nihilism and favors the discrediting of democratic institutions and the diminution of the people’s confidence in the state institutions,” Corneliu Gurin said in an interview for Info-Prim Neo of the series “Year 2012 in Moldova’s and Moldovans”, which was {published on December 21}. According to Corneliu Gurin, in 2012 the Moldovan authorities allowed serious deviations from the EU standards and even from the democratic standards. “The political and group interests always prevailed. The efficiency and impetuosity of reforms were sacrificed so as to promote these interests and many of the mistakes made earlier weren’t rectified. More serious is yet the fact that they avoid recognizing the problems and mistakes. They try to justify any decision and attitude, including the serious errors that affect the image of the public institutions and event the country’s image at home and abroad,” said the expert. He also said that in opinion polls most of the people say that the law functioning mechanism must be improved. Thus, the people feel that the adopted laws do not produce the necessary results. The implementation of the new regulations is possibly the most important problem as it shows not only political will in promoting reforms, but also the existing administrative capacities for implementing them and the existence of socioeconomic preconditions for the quasi-general acceptance of the new approaches. Asked how the government and the opposition fulfilled their duties in the legislative process, Corneliu Gurin said that the government and the opposition were stubborn to promote their own positions and there was no political cooperation for the country’s interests. “The ruling alliance ignored the opposition, regardless of the sectors it represented: the left, the center, the right, the parliamentary or extra-parliamentary opposition, the pro-European or pro-Eastern one. At the same time, the extreme left opposition started to promote ideas that were fully opposed to the European integration idea. Society was divided, including because of the political antagonisms. The European integration idea was affected by this situation and lost supporter. “The government and the opposition are to blame for this situation, but the government is more responsible because its task is to strengthen society and to show democratic behavior,” he stated. 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 of this series.