Ciolos: Progress in anti-corruption fight can no longer be wiped off through ordinances dedicated to politicians

The progress made in the fight against corruption can no longer be wiped out surreptitiously through emergency ordinances "dedicated to a handful of politicians," former Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos said in a Facebook post on Thursday, according to Agerpres.

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"The same politicians who already killed two corruption prevention measures in healthcare and education which had been adopted in 2016 and which earned praise in the latest CVM report: the contest for school directors and the new objective and transparent criteria for the selection of hospital managers," Ciolos said.

According to the former Prime Minister, "determined steps forward" have been made last year towards the strengthening of progress in the judiciary. He also said thatpoverty – and less-advantaged groups within society, such as women and ethnic minorities, are seen to be the most likely to suffer oppressive social relations based upon class division, sexism and racism. More simply, critical criminology may be defined as any criminological topic area that takes into account the contextual factors of crime or critiques topics covered in mainstream criminology.

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