Kričač Movement, Doctors’ Initiative and the Movement for decent work and welfare society believe systemic solutions need to be found, and have decided to join forces in organizing the Rally of confrontation. "The problem lies in the system. We can keep cutting the heads off and running in circles; but the mere system as it is today with enable new heads to grow," said Peter Petrovčič, the president of Kričač, at a press conference.
"In a year of two, new lobbyists will take over the business, or even the same ones. An old song made anew. And all of this because of a single human weakness – greed. This is a conglomerate that needs to be dismantled by using every possible means available to the citizens through their constitutional rights, and with help from law enforcement and judicial authorities, of course," argues Petrovčič.
"There are no sides for us, there’s no left or right. It’s just those who have, and those who don’t. Well-positioned individuals and ordinary citizens," the president of Kričač added.
The purpose of the rally is to bring attention to "serious problems in the country" and certain issues such as the never-ending recapitalization of state-owned banks. The rally will demand close inspection of all contracts signed by supervisory boards in the period when banks accumulated bad loans, and plans to denounce corruption in the health system as well as other sectors.
Labour market one of the biggest problems
The Movement for decent work and welfare society pointed out the labour market as one of the key problems in Slovenia. The rally will call for the authorities "to stop misleading the public about the real number of the unemployed", explained Marko Funkl. "Last but not least, we’ve set a demand for the people to become the priority of the government, and not the patching up of the holes in the banks, where CEOs finance their own projects through political lobbies, yet no one is ever held responsible," added Funkl.
Demands of the rally and its organizers:
- complete elimination of corrupted mafia from the public health system, dismissal of officials involved in corruptive practices, termination of employment and seizure of property upon proven guilty, putting a stop to those mixing public and private practices in the system, founding an independent public committee to manage public tenders as well as purchases of medication and other medical accessories directly from producers (without commercial agents), public and transparent publication of prices, searching for the best bidder;
- founding a public and transparent investigation of the TEŠ 6 project;
- founding a public and transparent investigation of the ‘bank hole’;
- amending the act on access to public information to enable full disclosure of consulting, sponsoring and donation contracts with state-owned companies, which will help in cutting the lobbying-political-media-elitist knot of organized mafia;
- founding an inspectorate with qualified human resources to cover the area of public orders and declare efficient sanctions for violators on state and local levels;
- implementing a moral codex for members of the parliament as well as government and ministry officials, designed as the Ten Commandments (e.g., don’t steal, and don’t let steal);
- adoption of legislation that will enable a court-enforceable discharge of an individual from a public function, and ban their performing of a public function for a fixed or indefinite period of time, provided the abuse of power or violation of anti-corruption legislature is proven in court under guaranteed legal protection;
- eliminating all corrupt judges from the judiciary;
- eliminating all corrupt officials from law enforcement authorities.
