The fight against corruption in Moldova does not produce results because there is no political will for rooting out this phenomenon. Such conclusions were formulated in the talk show “Moldova live” on the public TV channel Moldova 1, IPN reports.
The vice director of the National Anticorruption Center Cristina Tarna said the situation can be remedied, but it is the political will that counts. “We have a commitment not only towards the people of Moldova, but also towards the European people as the EU invested significant funds in eradicating corruption in Moldova. I hope that foreign pressure will be exerted on our political class,” she stated.
The director of the Journalistic Investigations Center Cornelia Cozonac believes that only the people can change this situation. “I doubt that the political leaders who are in power will change things. I hope the people will no longer tolerate this state of affairs and will exert pressure on the political class. The politicians will only lose if they continue to behave like this. The institutions empowered to fight corruption also don’t do their job. There are no reactions to the investigations into cases of corruption,” she said.
Transparency International Moldova director Lilia Carasciuc said that the level of intolerance to corruption is going up in society. “We monitor the people’s attitude to corruption and I can confirm that things have changed considerably. An increasing number of people are dissatisfied with the current state of affairs. I think society will exert great pressure on the political class for steps to start to be taken,” she stated.
Former MP Ana Gutu, pro-reactor of the Moldova Free International University, said things depend not only on political will, but also on institutional will. “I mean especially the legal system, which is so corrupt that reached the level of caste,” she noted.