Parliament: The discussion of the multi-bill with regulations within the competence of several ministries in the Plenary Session

With the main axis of the National Strategic Plan for Combating Corruption, a bill of co-responsibility of many ministries is introduced today, for discussion and voting in the Plenary.

In the past few days, during the drafting stage of the bill in the competent parliamentary committee, a large part of the debate was whether a bill of this kind should come, with a plethora of provisions, unrelated to each other.

The government described the bill as “fundraising”, which allowed for easy discussion, as it did not follow the “tread” of introducing provisions and regulations in the form of amendments. “Broom bill”, “sample of bad legislation” and “service of interests”, the opposition characterized the panspermia of provisions, which limited the possibility of consultation and does not harmonize with the good legislation proclaimed by the government, because “they are stacked in this bill and the 1,100 pages of everything “.

The responsibility of the Ministry of Interior is the arrangements for the preparation of the National Strategic Plan for Combating Corruption, the provision for the establishment of a Central Coordination Committee, for the coordination of the process of elaboration and updating of the National Strategic Plan for which the National aims to strengthen public integrity.

The National Strategic Plan for Combating Corruption involves the whole government in its implementation and under the National Transparency Authority, which is responsible for monitoring, reporting and updating, includes a framework of actions to prevent and combat corruption, as well as raising public awareness of such phenomena.

For its better coordination, a Central Coordination Committee is established, while to ensure the coherence of the government work, the Prime Minister or the competent minister himself proposes its approval to the cabinet, which monitors its implementation on an annual basis.

“We are establishing a framework framework that does something that has never been done in the country’s political past,” said Interior Minister Makis Voridis, while the bill was being drafted, in the relevant parliamentary committee. Mr. Voridis said that “the existence of a national action plan for the fight against corruption is foreseen, part of this plan is the existence of a National Integrity System and from now on it is not at the discretion of each minister to legislate or not to legislate what is provided in the national plan, but there is a strong political commitment at the highest possible political level, at the level of the cabinet, including the prime minister, in order to implement the national plan to fight corruption. ”

The rapporteur of ND, George Kotronias, has noted that “the implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Plan (ESSKADI) is a national commitment. On the one hand, it ensures the continuation of the reforms undertaken by Greece in a European and internationally, on the other hand, the implementation of priorities highlighted by the European Commission’s annual reports, both in the context of the European Semester and the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism and in the context of exploring the rule of law through the relevant recommendations of European and international organizations; with responsibilities in the field of combating corruption “.

“The bill does not introduce regulations that promote the fight against corruption in the country,” said SYRIZA rapporteur Dionysis Kalamatianos, and stressed that according to the draft law, the National Strategic Plan to Fight Corruption is prepared by the National Authority. which, however, will be staffed by members of the government’s choice. The SYRIZA MP, moreover, has pointed out that another Committee is being set up, the Central Coordination Committee, which has general secretaries elected by the government, a member of the president of the National Transparency Authority – also elected by the government – has another representative directly elected by the Prime Minister. At the same time, he stressed that the National Integrity System will be designed by decision of the Minister of Interior and that changes in its design will be decided by the cabinet.

“The government says different things and does different things,” commented Evangelia Liakouli, a spokeswoman for the Movement for Change. the operation of the executive state, the good legislation, the faithful observance of the legislative methodology provided in the new manuals. “You are instrumentalizing the legislative work in the quiver of your communication tricks,” said Ms. Liakouli, who rejected the introduction of reform with this anti-corruption bill.

“Behind the thousand-word, camouflaged formalities on transparency and application of the rules of law lies the unpopularity of the bourgeois state staff,” said KKE spokesman Manolis Syntyhakis, who said it was no coincidence that the explanatory memorandum memorandum priorities, both in the context of the European Semester and the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism and the dangerously highly unpopular recommendations of European and international organizations.

“The legislator does not have a structured plan to fight corruption. He continues to set up unnecessary principles, unnecessary committees, with overlapping activities and, in fact, we are burdening the state budget even more,” said the solution of the Greek solution, Konstantinos that the fight against corruption requires meritocracy in the State and good administration. “The lack of meritocracy is the first and main reason that our young people are leaving abroad,” said the Greek Solution MP.

“This is a vacuum bill that is not governed by a single principle unless the party principle is a single principle. It is a joke for a government that has favored corruption to speak of transparency,” said MEPA25 expert Maria Apatzidi, who wondered if the government runs and arranges for elections. He also denounced gratuitous arrangements to all sorts of oligarchs.

SOURCE: AMPE