“TIA” corruption has increased

The participants are part of the global corruption barometer organized by Transparency International and “Gallup International”. Citizens have considered the judiciary and medicine as the most corrupted sectors, followed by political parties, the education system, the parliament and the police.

“When asked if the corruption level had changed in the past two years, 66% of the Albanians think that it has increased. 25% think that it has not changed and 9% think that it has decreased. This level of preception, which is the same in Kosovo too, ranks the two Albanian states last in the classifications for Western Balkan. In a scale from 1 to 5, with 1 “not corrupted at all” and 5 “very corrupted”, the most corrupted institutions in Albania are perceived as the judiciary and the health system, with a level of 4.3 points, followed by the political parties, the education system, the Parliament and the police. 58% of the participants in Albania believe that the government’s actions in the war against corruption have been not effective in the past two years. 30% of them say that these actions have not been effective and only 12% think that they have been effective”, declared Inesa Hila, coordinator of the TIA.

74% of the participants declared that they have been asked to give bribes in exchange of service at the public administration. Based on this report, the people’s opinion on the leaders’ efforts to stop corruption are worse than before the financial crisis of 2008.

The director of the TIA report writes that governments should seriously consider the citizens’ appeal against corruption and answer with concrete actions for increasing the growth of transparency and responsibility.

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