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MPs held hearing of the candidates to head anticorruption commission

MPs from the Parliament’s Committee on anti-corruption, conflict of interests and parliamentary ethics on December 3 held a hearing of the two candidates ...

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18:20, 03.12.2019
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MPs from the Parliament’s Committee on anti-corruption, conflict of interests and parliamentary ethics on December 3 held a hearing of the two candidates to head of Bulgaria’s anticorruption commission.

The parties from the ruling coalition, GERB and United Patriots, on November 19 nominated the outgoing Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov to head the anti-corruption and criminal asset forfeiture commission.

The other nomination for the same job is the MP Simeon Naydenov. It was put forward by Volya party.

According to the two candidates, no conditions for corruption should be created. Therefore they propose that the anticorruption should analyze the legislation and tell Parliament which legislative texts create loopholes for corrupt behavior in the administration. They both believe that the public needs to be intolerant to this process in order to combat corruption effectively.

Simeon Naydenov even sees the need to start anti-corruption training at schools.

Simeon Naydenov, Candidate for anticorruption commission Chair: Training in schools can be introduced and should be introduced, but in the upper grades, maybe after grades 10-11. There were suggestions that training should be introduced in the primary schools. I do not agree. Primary school children should never hear the word "corruption" at all. Corruption is a bad word, and we should not infect them with this bad word "corruption" from a very young age.

Sotir Tsatsarov agreed that there should be an anti-corruption element in education. He noted that currently only 7% of the staff of the anticorruption commission work on combating corruption, and the commission itself has about 500 employees. According to Tsatsarov, the other thing that the Commission needs to do is work more on self-initiative. Therefore, he believes that there should also be monitoring of publications in the media regarding corruption, conflicts of interest and the risk of corruption.

Sotir Tsatsarov, candidate for anticorruption commission Chair: Introduction of permanent monitoring of media publications, I mean monitoring that has nothing to do with the PR activity of the Commission but with its powers under the law. It is a matter of daily monitoring, I emphasize, with equal treatment of all media as a source of information, because by law it is precisely this media monitoring and the sources of publications in the media that are equated with an alert under Art. 47, para. 2 of the Law. This alert may be a source of information about corrupt practices, it may be a source of information on conflicts of interest, it may identify a risk requiring a proposal for anti-corruption measures, it may give details of deficiencies in the work of the Commission itself, which necessitates activation of the relevant powers of the Inspectorate.

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