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Promoting transparency and accountability in the Romanian society begins with the Parliament, in the Institute for Public Policy’s opinion. IPP promotes transparency with regards to the members of the parliament’s activity in the plenum, steering committees and the constituency offices by advocating for the procedure of casting and displaying (on internet) individual votes of MPs on every legislation. We closely follow that the public resources in support of the MPs activity in Bucharest and the territory will be publicly disclosed also on the official websites of the two Chambers of the Parliament. Our expectation is that each MP has to understand the duty of reporting about his/her mandate’ accomplishments in relation to the voters and all the efforts should be invested towards this ultimate goal.
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This monitoring report is mainly based on statistical data available on the websites of the Romanian Parliament and completed with information provided by both Chambers to the IPP’s FOIA request. The report continues the series that IPP initiated in 2007 by publishing such monitoring reports at the end of each parliamentary session. This report covers the session September - December 2009. The statistical information related to all MPs was analyzed and processed in the light of the following aspects: 1. presence at the vote in plenary of each MP (is available a ranking made by IPP); 2. the work of the standing committees in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate; 3. the number of legislative initiatives submitted by each senator and deputy in relation to their effectiveness ; 4. speaking in Parliament, policy statements and legislative initiatives submitted by MPs in the monitored period; 5. number of interpellations/number of questions addressed by the MPs to the Government. |
details The comparative study A plea for Open Parliaments in the Black Sea Region. The case of Romania, Republic of Moldova, Bulgaria and Georgia elaborated by experts of the Institute for Public Policy (IPP), Romania, IDIS – Institute for Democratic Initiatives, Chisinau, Centre for Liberal Strategies (CLS), Sofia and Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD), Tbilisi within the context of a regional project supported by The Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation (BST), brings a new, comparative perspective over the legislative mechanisms and institutional practices that regulate transparency of parliaments in the 4 countries. |
Most recent press releases and policy papers
Bucharest, June 30, 2009 ■ Institute for Public Policy (IPP) will soon launch a complex monitoring report on activities performed by members of the newly elected Romanian Parliament during the first parliamentary session from February to June 2009. Thus we continue our regular release of parliamentary session reports in order to inform the public about their elected officials performance.The new leadership of the Chambers enthusiastically started the session, but they have not consistently followed the engagements
The two new Presidents of the Chambers have assumed a number of objectives at the beginning of this Parliamentary session aiming to increase transparency and efficiently within the Parliament. The project of the Senate President combines a number of concrete responsibilities derived from his position with several evident electoral objectives without defining priorities. President of the Deputies Chamber joint several important initiatives of the civil society, such as tracking and sanctioning absenteeism or displaying all information related to public expenditures on MPs activity, claiming that these will be her own legislative bills while she had all necessary means to administratively deal with them.
Bucharest, May 7th, 2009 ■ Institute for Public Policy (IPP) congratulates the President of the Deputies Chamber, Mrs. Roberta Anastase for taking the lead in the Parliament with regards to two important initiatives that IPP has been advocating for 5 years now:• decreasing absenteeism – President of the Deputies Chamber issued a bill through which to amend the current Law on the Deputies and Senators’ Statute in order to publicly expose the deputies missing the parliamentary sessions via the official web page. IPP’ opinion is in fact that such phenomenon could be better counteracted if actual sanctions for skipping the sessions are enforced by a technical staff on which political influence to be eliminated at the minimum possible. Issuing the bill means that final decision will be adopted by the plenum of each of the Chambers and no longer by the group of MPs representing the Standing Bureaus.
• displaying detailed information about each MP expenses while performing the mandate, on the web page of the Deputies Chamber/the Romanian Senate. IPP suggested that such information will be released on a monthly basis, yet we salute the decision of the Chamber of Deputies which states that such information will be displayed every week. The initiative was endorsed by the Standing Bureau of the Deputies Chamber which implies that the decision has to be implemented by the administrative staff.
Bucharest, March 19, 2009 ■ Starting with the new legislature, the Institute for Public Policy (IPP) is adapting its monitoring strategy so that it can bring to the public attention relevant aspects from the activity of the Romanian Parliament in the context of changes brought about by the uninominal elections of November 2008. From the beginning of the parliamentary mandate, IPP urged the President of the Chamber of Deputies to support the proceedings initiated by the Institute in 2005 to publish comprehensive information about the deputies' activities, as well as the expenditure per deputy incurred during the exercise of their specific activities (IPP requested the ex officio publication of all monthly expenditure per deputy on the websites of the two Chambers).
Institute for Public Policy (IPP) will monitor the implementation of the already made statements of the recently elected President of the Deputies Chamber, Mrs. Roberta Anastase with regards to transparency and accountability of the parliamentarians’ activity.In a recent meeting with the President of the Chamber, IPP required that, starting with the first parliamentary session of the Chamber’s current mandate, 3 vital inquiries will be implemented in order to strengthen transparency and credibility of the Parliament in relation to the voters.
