Sharing the xperience of others -- Memo for ABU In Politics: 1. To restrict the terms of the president, governors, and mayors to 2 terms, not just sequentially but even with intervals. This will require an amendment to the constitution so that no one can spend more than 8 years in such positions or return to power afterwards. 2. To abolish the de facto political censorship that exists today in television in the first place and in other mass media. 3. A return to free and fair elections including real political oppositions. 4. Restore the election of governors and mayors. 5. Create an official parliamentary investigations committee. In Law: 1. Make it obligatory for civil servants to declare not only their incomes but the spending, as well as listing their property. If their spending appears discrepant with their income, their property to be forfeited. 2. Ratify Article 20 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption. This article calls for the adoption of such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish illicit enrichment, when committed intentionally, as a criminal offence. It is for this reason that the Putin government has refused to ratify it. 3. Introduce additional legislation to prevent relatives of civil servants from engaging in businesses in the areas regulated by their relatives in government. (This would put a stop to the ploys so enjoyed by Luzhkov and Baturina amongst others). 4. Pass a freedom of information law making it compulsory for all government decisions to be published and available freely to any citizen. Documents to be classified only if they concern national defence and security. The decision to classify to be subject to parliamentary control. In Law Enforcement: 1. To hold an independent investigation of the activities of Putin and his civil service and business friends for possible corruption. The results of the investigation to be widely publicised. 2. To reform the MVD, the FSB, and the Procurator’s Office. 3. The remuneration package offered to law enforcement officials to stimulate them to honest and long-term employment. In the Economy: 1. To reduce the number of civil servants by 800 thousand. That is how many extra civil service jobs have been created under Putin. 2. The prime minister’s duties to include heading the anti-monopoly office. A main task of a head of government is to protect the conditions for equal competition, to prevent the monopolisation of markets, and to support small and medium businesses. 3. To disband the state corporations. Investigate their past activities. Investigate the actions of the top managements of the monopolies, including Gazprom and TransNeft, for possible corruption. 4. To privatise on the open market state and municipal property. State-ownership to be retained only for natural monopolies. Reducing the participation of the state in the economy will reduce the influence of civil servants on business decisions and accordingly reduce corruption. 5. To keep taxation down. Cancel the increase in social tax to 34% as conducive of corruption by driving business underground. The above measures will surely and rapidly lead to a reduction in corruption from Guinea-Bissau to Eastern European (Georgian) levels.Not much is needed to make this happen – just political will and honesty on the part of the country’s leaders. Today’s leaders do not have that. We do. ПутиндолженуйтиПутиндолженуйти © 2010-2011 ОДД Солидарность. rusolidarnost.ru Создание сайта: Павел Елизаров показаночислопросмотровзачасапосетителейзачасаизасегодня
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