Santo Domingo.-The fight against corruption is a subject present in the speeches of all presidential candidates, who, often, as applicants and then become presidents, emphasize acting and being implacable against those who commit crimes of corruption in their management.
Regularly, the fight against corruption is so important that some presidents have even coined anti -corruption phrases that have transcended generations, such as “corruption stops at the door of my office”, attributed to Joaquín Balaguer, who would have expressed himself from That way in response to their opponents who questioned corruption in their governments.
Recently the International Transparency Organization (IT) published its report on the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), corresponding to the year 2024, in which it places the Dominican Republic in a group of seven countries that have significantly improved their score in the last five years.
In 2018, the country had a score of 30, which later descended to 28 during the years 2019 and 2020, rose two points in 2021 (30) and 2022 (32), while in 2023 it reached 35 and 36 by 2024 , which is the last report.
This places the country in the 104th of 180 measured. On a scale of 0 to 100, where less score means high perception of corruption.
Next, some of the anti -corruption speeches of the presidents since 2000 to date.
Hipólito Mejía
By assuming the administration of the State in 2000, Hipólito Mejía emphasized that it would attack corruption, promising that it would govern from a glass house, with transparency, so that citizen surveillance is witnessing the actions of public officials.
Mejía’s anti-corruption discourse Caló in the population because precisely its administration inherited the corruption scandal minimum eventual plan of employment (PEME), in which at least six officials of the first management of Leonel Fernández (1996-2000), were subjected to Justice accused of fraud against the State for 1,400 million pesos.
Upon exit from the government, at least 14 officials of his management were submitted to justice accused of fraud in the Renove Plan.
Leonel Fernández
For the 2004 campaign, Leonel Fernández presented himself for the second time as a presidential candidate of the Dominican Liberation Party, and in the presentation of his anti -corruption proposal, in an event of the Institutionality and Justice Foundation (Finjus).
He promised the creation of an electronic government, in order to transparent all the financial information carried out from the State.
At that time, Fernández explained that in the country there was a structure of power at the service of corruption and drug trafficking, which penetrates different levels.
Danilo Medina
After losing the Hipólito Mejía elections in 2000, Danilo Medina again aspired to the elections of 2012, becoming president of two periods in a row, from 2012 to 2020.
In September 2011, Medina participated as a speaker at a conference organized by citizen participation, and there it made it clear that he would cancel the first official of his management that the public rumor indicates as corrupt, and that he would submit it.
Medina said that if he won he would convene advice of officials, and that the first one that the public rumor indicated was going to ask for accounts in front of all his colleagues, “and when he asks for accounts and does not satisfy what he tells me, I cancel it, everyone They will know that I canceled it for that. ”
In their management, former officials linked to the Odebrecht case were subjected, both of the PLD and the PRM, which were officials when they were in the PRD.
Luis Abinader
Luis Abinader reached his first term in 2020 with the slogan of “the change” and the independence of the Public Ministry, and like its predecessors, it has also had a critical discourse against corruption, and even, in its management you He has submitted a significant amount of former public officials, and a few of his government.
The most recent of President Abinader against corruption is the creation of the National Transparency and Anti -Corruption System (ANT), a system that will be created by decree to coordinate and integrate government strategies in terms of transparency and fight against corruption.
Abinader said that transparency is an unnegotiable principle, so it made clear to any official who wants to get rich, must go to the private sector, since work in the public sector is to serve.
Over the years, each new government has arrived with a firm speech against corruption, promising transparency, exemplary sanctions and reforms to strengthen institutionality.
However, reality shows that, despite efforts and initiatives, corruption acts continue to occur in administrations.
The perception of citizens remains of skepticism, which could be attributed to impunity and lack of real consequences against involved.
Citizenship
—1— Surveillance
Dominican society becomes increasingly vigilant of public resources.
—2— Manifestations
Manifestations such as green march and concentration in the Plaza de la Flag have been of great impact.
—3— Laws
Each government has created mechanisms to prevent corruption.
A national transparency system
Decree. President Luis Abinader recently announced that they are working on a decree to create the National Anti -Corruption Transparency System, which allows to agglutinate and move from the cabinet that “we have a system of much greater agility that can coordinate and integrate government strategies in matters of transparency and anti -corruption struggle ”.
He said that all levels of the population should be reached where honesty becomes fashionable and thus there is a transparency and honesty behavior.
“It is something that we have the responsibility to do, to continue advancing,” said the president in the weekly last Monday.
