Boc demands dignitaries to declare presents

PD deputy Emil Boc on Thursday said that the draft law he was to submit to Parliament targeted the transparency of public activity in Romania. The draft law stipulates that MPs and Government members will have to declare every present they get as a result of the position they hold.

According to the PD deputy, every Government member will declare a present received from abroad and will have to submit it to the Government.

“If they want to have the present, they will have to bid for it in an auction organised by the Government,” Emil Boc specified.

He explained that the gift category would also include the facilities an MP or Government member would get as a result of his position (for instance facilities for buying a house or car).

“If an MP or a Government member gets flowers, they will not have to declare them, of course,” the PD deputy said.

He also explained that, under his draft, the penalties for not having declared the gifts would lead to exclusion or loss of the parliamentary mandate or to the enforcement of the penal legislation. Mediafax