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CCASP PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA AND RESPONSIVENESS GOVERNANCE

The fact that the most of the tacit adopted legislative proposals have been submitted by the Parliament

members that can lead us to conclude that, after the deposition of the initiatives, the MP’s are less
motivated in the supporting their own initiatives.
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Analyzing, in turn, the dimensions of parliamentary activity, we can draw some general conclusions

regarding the defined issues in the monitored session.

The draft legislation submitted by members of Parliament continues the unsuccessful legislative inflation
phenomenon - in other words, some lawmakers initiate legislative proposals or co-sign in order to claim
it as activity; there was no real and consistent concerns about the purpose of the legislative process

regarding this initiatives.

MP’s belonging to the governing political parties should be consistent in cooperation with fellow parties in
the executive to avoid situations when their legislative proposals are in conflict with the agreed political

principles.
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In terms of priorities, the less important areas for the current Parliament – as they appear depending on
the purpose of regulation initiatives submitted - are equal opportunities and human rights.

5. THE CONVERGENCE AGENDAS AND THE RESPONSIVENESS GOVERNMENT

Congruence between the public and governmental agendas is an unavoidable precondition without which

responsiveness cannot occur. Public agenda is measured by the answer to a question about “the most
important problems” the nation is facing. The measures from the parliamentary agenda are based on

hearings activity. By analyzing the activity of the Permanent Commission of the Chamber of Deputies may
be noted that there is a significant difference between the number of hearings and the degree of access
to information on the outcome of the discussion in Commissions. Thus, there is no available information

for 31 from a total of 65 hearings of the Human Right Commission. The Public Administration Commission
also has not enough available documents (only for 4 of the 25 hearings of this session). Other similar
examples are the Economic Policy Committee and the Commission to investigate abuses, corruption and

complaints. For the February-June 2010 parliamentary session, there is no available information for 20
hearings of these Commissions.

Unfortunately, at the Senate, information from the hearings of Permanent Commissions is not available.

The presence of information, available only for 4 Permanent Commission –Foreign Policy Commission,
Public Administration Commission Environment Commission, Commission for Labor, Family and Social

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