PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION DAY: “THROUGH INSTITUTIONAL OPENNESS TO PREVENT CORRUPTION – OPENNESS INDEX.”

On the occasion of the International Day for the Fight against Corruption, the “Metamorphosis” Foundation organized a panel discussion: “Through Institutional Openness to the Prevention of Corruption – Openness Index”, in which the director of the Agency for the Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information took part. character, Plamenka Bojcheva.

At the event, the latest results of the monitoring of the institutional openness of the executive and legislative authorities carried out through the Openness Index at the national and regional level were promoted, through which good practices and pressing challenges for more transparent institutions were discussed to increase the trust of citizens and to efforts to eradicate corruption are strengthened.

In that direction, director Bojcheva emphasized: “The right of the public to know is part of the corpus of fundamental human rights in the modern world. This right is unthinkable without free access to information, one of the key pillars on which modern democracies are founded. It enables timely and complete information for citizens, which is necessary to participate in public life effectively. As a key guarantor of transparency, the public’s right to know is also the greatest bulwark of defence against corruption. Corrupt practice and abuse of public resources show that these negative phenomena are predominantly developed secretly, where public information is unavailable and public control is impossible.”

The event is part of the first “Open Anti-Corruption Forum” organized within the “Citizens Against Corruption” program and SELDI.