2009 Coalition seeks anticorruption promises from competing parties

The 2009 Coalition intends to argue the political parties that will run in the 2009 legislative elections into including in their electoral platforms concrete measures to fight corruption, announced Mircea Esanu, secretary of the Anticorruption Alliance, a member of the 2009 Coalition. Esanu told Info-Prim Neo that most political parties barely touch the problem of corruption in their platforms. “There are parties who put their entire platform on two pages, which is hardly enough. The measures proposed so far have been very vague; rather, they resemble slogans” said Mircea Esanu. According to him, the members of the 2009 Coalition expect that not all their parties will join the cause, and the group intends to 'punish' such parties by publishing a list of those that will refuse to cooperate. “There's a great discrepancy between what political parties promise in the election campaign on this subject and how these proposals are fulfilled once they are where they intended to be”, said Vadim Pistrinciuc, executive director of the National Center for Transparency and Human Rights, another member of the Coalition. To follow the way the political parties fulfill their promises, the Coalition will publish yearly reports which will detail the work of each party in this direction.