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Justice reform as the battleground for genuine democratic transformation in Moldova: insights for the Eastern Partnership
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Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit
Abstract The euphoria felt by both domestic and foreign liberal audiences following the victory of a pro-reform party in Moldova is now receding. The new Moldovan leadership has stumbled in fulfilling its main electoral promise, namely to fight corruption by effectively reforming the justice system. There i... view more
The euphoria felt by both domestic and foreign liberal audiences following the victory of a pro-reform party in Moldova is now receding. The new Moldovan leadership has stumbled in fulfilling its main electoral promise, namely to fight corruption by effectively reforming the justice system. There is a growing realisation that justice reform initiated and conducted with Western support over the last decade, and based on the implementation of existing best practices, might not be the most effective approach considering Moldova's conditions. With corrupt courts and a public prosecutor office that is still connected to former kleptocrats, Moldova is a model weak state. A more suitable approach to justice reform would be to first establish prerequisites that would lead to the impartiality of the legal system before granting it political independence. This may also prove a more suitable model of justice reform for other Eastern Partnership countries undermined by strongmen and tycoons. (author's abstract)... view less
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Judiciary
Free Keywords
Moldau; Innenpolitische Lage/Entwicklung; Politische Reformen; Justiz/Judikative Gewalt; Justizreform; Korruptionsbekämpfung; Rechtsstaatlichkeit/Rechtsstaat; Entwicklungsperspektive und -tendenz; Sandu, Maia; Reformpolitik; Ernennung, Umbesetzung oder Entlassung von Personen; Richter; Korruption; Wahl/Abstimmung; Parlament; Politische Partei; Parteiprogramm; Kleptokratie; Korruptionswahrnehmung
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
8 p.
Series
SWP Comment, 27/2022
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18449/2022C27
ISSN
2747-5107
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications