Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos says that Romania cannot get modern and fight corruption efficiently unless it reforms its central and local public administration. "There are lately several question marks about the state's efficiency, about the confidence in the political class and I believe that this is a topic where would all have something to win; that, through this reform of the public administration, by increasing the efficiency, the transparency of the public administration, through the professionalization of the public administration, by clarifying its relationship with politics, we win back the citizen's confidence in the state and we start again a process of modernizing the state. Romania cannot get modern and improve economically, cannot eliminate corruption consistently unless it reforms the local and central public administration," Ciolos told the plenum of the Chamber of Deputies on Monday's 'Prime Minister's Hour' debate.
The prime minister insisted upon the relationship between a transparent and professional public administration and the effectiveness of the fight against corruption. "In vain we have economic development projects with potential, in vain we have the country's economic potential to capitalize if we don't have a public administration able to back this economic development project with a role of the state clearly defined (...) The anti-corruption fight risks to become the main instrument of modernizing the state, whereas the fight against corruption should only be a tool to heal the society. And yet, if the anti-corruption fight is not followed closely by a public administration's reform oriented to transparency and professionalization, we only risk to stay with the stressing of the corruption cases without correcting the problems from their root. And this is what the public administration's reform wants to do: prevent the corruption issues and correct them at their root by redefining the framework where the public administration works," Ciolos added. The theme of the political debate in the Chamber of Deputies was precisely 'The public administration's reform.'
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