Cooperation between Parliament and civil society is better than ever – speaker

The cooperation process between the civil society and the Parliament is developing, even if we are still far from setting mark lines, speaker Marian Lupu announced about this, on Tuesday, June 27, within the international conference „Transparency in the decision-making process: practices and perspectives”. According to Lupu, the parts are aware of the fact that bringing to life the cooperation mechanisms, included in the Civil Society Cooperation Concept, is still difficult. „It would be correct to recognize that on behalf of the civil society, as well as of the Parliament there are many persons who do not know how this process has to be done. And it is not about the lack of will, but of an appropriate political and civic culture, which has to be developed in order to get over the non-trust stereotypes toward an open cooperation,” Lupu noted. The speaker also mentioned that the cooperation process is not easy at all, not for the fact that it involves efforts and human resources, but because it is a new process facing „the bureaucratic conservatism of Moldovan political traditions”. Anyway, he expressed his confidence that the transparency and the cooperation have to be the working tools of RM public authorities. Oleg Rotaru, the deputy head of the Government Staff, present at the conference, underlined that transparency in decision-making is the Executive’s regard and now practical cooperation measures with the civil society are drafted. The OSCE Mission to RM representative, Claus Neukirch also referred to the importance of the decision-making transparency on behalf of public institutions. „The transparency in the decision-making process is one of the main factors for a viable democracy,” he underscored. Recently, a working group composed of representatives of the civil society and ministries has issued the bill on decision-making process transparency. The bill is comprises 5 chapters and 19 articles.