Parliament asked to review list of candidates for Integrity Commission member

The Civic Initiative for a Clean Parliament (CICP) requested Parliament to review the list of five candidates for the post of member of the National Integrity Commission. According to representatives of the Initiative, the list includes Ion Prisacaru, who in 2009 was on the list of candidates for the seat of MP who did not meet the integrity criteria, Info-Prim Neo reports. The CICP, which consists of seven NGOs, is surprised that the candidates for seats on the National Integrity Commission were designated without taking into account their public image and integrity. Under the regulations of the National Integrity Commission, the Commission will be comprised of five members named by Parliament for a five-year period by a majority of votes. Three of them will represent the parliamentary majority, while by one member the parliamentary opposition and civil society. The three candidates proposed by the parliamentary majority include Ion Prisacaru, who is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova. During the “Know Your Candidate” campaign carried out by the CICP in 2009, Prisacaru was on the list of candidates who did not meet the integrity criteria because he did not fairly declare his property and incomes to the Central Election Commission and because his name was mentioned in several Audit Office reports in connection with the incorrect management of public finances, when he headed the State Tax Inspectorate. “The creation of the National Integrity Commission is one of the main measures to combat and prevent corruption and one of Moldova’s international commitments,” Cornelia Cozonac, the head of the Journalistic Investigations Center that forms part of the CICP, said in a press club meeting. The legislation on the creation of the Commission came into force on February 1, 2012, while the new regulations concerning the declaration of incomes and property on March 1. Under the related regulations, the Commission was to start work on March 1, 2012.