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Gal: We Need to Raise People's Legal Awareness to Curb Corruption
Wednesday 20 January 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, January 20 (TASR) - The rate of corruption in all spheres in Slovakia is unprecedented, said Independent MP Gabor Gal (a Most-Hid member) at a press conference on Wednesday.
As an extremely dangerous phenomenon, corruption and attempts to fight it are among Most-Hid's top priorities, said Gal.
Gal presented Most-Hid's action programme Transparent 2010, designed to curb corruption, clientelism and cronyism. According to him, an ideal solution would be to create an environment in which corruption could either be prevented or extinguished as much as possible. "We can curb corruption only if we raise people's legal awareness," he said.
The MP added that every country implements measures identical to those in Slovakia. "It doesn't work in Slovakia, yet it works everywhere else." According to him, a system of anti-corruption measures has failed - just like the people carrying them out. Gal levelled criticism at the Government, which, he thinks, introduces such measures only in a superficial manner so that they can be lauded as an achievement in public.
Gal believes that there's no need to change the entire system of anti-corruption measures, and that simply utilising the current framework to the fullest would suffice. "We won't devise anything new, we're not cleverer than the rest of the world. We just need to use a human factor in a different way," he said.
According to Gal, it's not only important to prevent corruption but also to investigate every case and justly punish the perpetrators if any trace of corruption is indeed detected.
The Most-Hid party wants people to have full access to information on how public property is managed. Central public procurement processes should be strictly electronic.
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