If the National Integrity Authority had worked very well, a large part of the registered candidates wouldn’t have entered the electoral race for the parliamentary elections, considers the president of the Journalistic Investigations Center Cornelia Cozonac. According to her, the NIA should also check the correctness of the content of candidates’ property statements, IPN reports.
The journalist noted the declaring of incomes and property is important as each candidate wants to hold a public post. This way, the citizen should see what property and incomes the person has and follow how this uses the held post to increase assets.
According to her, some of the politicians come to Parliament to develop their businesses and increase their capital.
Transparency International Moldova director Liliana Carasciuc said civil society is interested in seeing the property statements submitted transparency and honestly so as to follow what assets the candidates will accumulate while holding office and if these match the declared incomes.
According to her, when the electoral system was modified, the period of the election campaign was intentionally reduced to a month so that civil society and investigation journalists do not manage to check the property statements, while the institutions controlled by the government keep silent.
