{"id":9065,"date":"2024-05-17T15:22:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T14:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/?p=9065"},"modified":"2024-05-17T15:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T14:22:55","slug":"mp-lenart-misrepresents-slovenias-corruption-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/mp-lenart-misrepresents-slovenias-corruption-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Lenart Misrepresents Slovenia&#8217;s Corruption Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ostro.si\/si\/razkrinkavanje\/objave\/lenart-manipulativno-o-zaznavi-korupcije-v-sloveniji\" title=\"\">Original article<\/a>&nbsp;(in Slovenian) was published on 15\/5\/2024; Author: Tina Ge\u010d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Slovenia scored the same on the Corruption Perceptions Index as last year; however, improvements in the Czech Republic caused Slovenia to rank lower.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democratic Party MP Jo\u017eef Lenart discussed the perception of corruption in Slovenia at an emergency session of the National Assembly on 6 May. He argued that the perception of corruption had worsened last year compared to 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was referring to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparency.org\/en\/news\/how-cpi-scores-are-calculated\">Corruption Perceptions Index<\/a>, which is measured by Transparency International, a non-governmental organisation that rates countries on corruption in the public sector.<br><br>They assess the level of bribery, nepotism, abuse of office, rule of law violations and misuse of public funds in a country based on data from 13 institutions such as the World Bank and the World Economic Forum. Countries are scored on a scale of zero to one hundred, with a lower score indicating a higher level of corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transparency International points out on its website that a country&#8217;s ranking relative to others is less important than its corruption perception score, as the ranking depends on the position of the other countries in the ranking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slovenia scored 56 out of a possible 100 points in both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparency.org\/en\/cpi\/2022\/index\/svn\">2022<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparency.org\/en\/cpi\/2023\/index\/svn\">2023<\/a>. Last year, it was ranked 42<sup>nd<\/sup>, and the year before 41<sup>st<\/sup>, which was due to an improvement by the Czech Republic, with which it had previously shared 41<sup>st<\/sup> spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slovenia is thus below the EU average of 65 points, while the global average remains at 43 points.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"730\" src=\"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-1024x730.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-1024x730.png 1024w, https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-768x548.png 768w, https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-1200x855.png 1200w, https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In January, the Slovenian Commission for the Prevention of Corruption <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpk-rs.si\/sl\/novice\/vse-novice\/na-komisiji-ob-novem-indeksu-zaznave-korupcije-vztrajamo-potrebujemo-sistemske-spremembe-in-prevzemanje-odgovornosti\">warned<\/a> that the country\u2019s poor performance demanded measures such as an update of the 2010 <a href=\"https:\/\/pisrs.si\/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO5523\">Integrity and Prevention of Corruption Act<\/a> and consistent compliance with the obligations of all relevant institutions to reverse the trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have informed MP Lenart of our findings and will publish his response upon receipt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The claim that Slovenia has lost ground on the Corruption Perceptions Index from 2022 to 2023 is misleading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article&nbsp;(in Slovenian) was published on 15\/5\/2024; Author: Tina Ge\u010d Slovenia scored the same on the Corruption Perceptions Index as last year; however, improvements in the Czech Republic caused Slovenia to rank lower. Democratic Party MP Jo\u017eef Lenart discussed the perception of corruption in Slovenia at an emergency session of the National Assembly on 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[10,34],"class_list":["post-9065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-checks","tag-politics","tag-slovenia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9071,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions\/9071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}