The National Intelligence Service, which will substitute the Security and Intelligence Service (SIS), will be managed by politically unaffiliated persons. The heads of the National Intelligence Service will be obliged not to join a political party five years after their dismissal. The institution will be under parliamentary control and will report the cases of attack on the state security to Parliament. Such proposals were formulated by members of the parliamentary commission on national security in a meeting held to examine the package of laws on the reformation of the Security and Intelligence Service, IPN reports.
Liberal-Democratic MP Liliana Palihovici said that most of the laws approved now provide that the institution chiefs should not be party members. “I share the idea that the institution must be reformed. The people should think about the SIS as about an institution that ensures their security. Now they think that the SIS is like a KGB that gathers discrediting information. The people’s mentality hasn’t changed. The measures stipulated in the three reformation bills will not bring about those changes. One of the bills says that the Service can except the Law on Personal Data Protection without saying how these data will be protected further,” she stated.
Liliana Palihovici proposed that the vice directors of the Service should be banned from joining a political parties during a period of five years of the leaving of the Service. The goal is to prevent these from providing secret information to extremist groups.
Unaffiliated MP Artur Reshetnicov said it seems to him that only the name of the institution will change within the reform. “I familiarized myself with the arguments in favor of renaming the Security and Intelligence Service as National Intelligence Service. I think it is not right to exclude the security aspect,” he said.
The MPs are to submit their proposals for improving the package of laws to the working group dealing with the reformation of the SIS and the commission will then again examine the bills.
