Transparency of decisions by central and local public authorities would boost the country's economic development, given the high degree of economic development in countries with a high transparency index. East of Sweden, Norway, Denmark. The opacity of public authorities generates corruption. Both official data and independent surveys include local public authorities at the top of the entities affected by corruption. This is the opinion expressed by IDIS Viitorul jurist Viorel Pîrvan during the "15 minutes of realism" economic show.
The Republic of Moldova has the legal framework on transparency and access to public information, but the level of knowledge of the rights offered to citizens is very low. Only 44% of citizens know about the existence of laws guaranteeing access to public information held by public authorities.
Although rational public authorities are bound, "only nine district administrations have published information on public meetings and only seven administrations have published the projects that have been discussed at these meetings. Fifteen districts did not organize public consultations on these projects, and only Straseni district organized such consultations for all decision-making projects, placing the ad on the web. Regarding public procurement, only Orhei and Rezina published on the web pages monitoring reports on the execution of public procurement contracts ".
"The comparative analysis for 2016 indicates for some rayon public administrations a progress towards 2015 in terms of ensuring access to public information and transparency in the work of local government. Of course, cases of passivity were also identified in opening public data to citizens and ensuring their participation in the decision-making process. If we are to make a general average of the transparency score accumulated by the districts, we will see a slight increase, in 2015 it was 27.1%, and in the year 2016 the average constituted 32.6%, "considers Viorel Pârvan.
According to Pîrvan, the declaration of the wealth and personal interests of the president, vice-presidents and civil servants was not published on a raion web page. The results of the monitoring also show that only Sîngerei district communicated through the website the information contained in the minutes of the selection board for the vacant position, including the committee evaluation and the applicants' ranking. The best examples of opening information on social services to citizens are the administrations of the Ungheni and Edinet rayons. Regrettably, no webpage contains the financial analyzes of municipal enterprises subordinated to the district council, with information on the structure of assets, assets, income, receivables, and debts of these entities.
In conclusion, Pîrvan said that a fully transparent local administration presupposes that the public authorities guarantee free access to information and ensure the correct and timely information of citizens on matters of public interest.
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