Publication of the fourteenth issue of the conflict of interest management newsletter
The 14th issue of the conflict of interest management newsletter (and the 64th issue in the continuation of the series of newsletters dealing with corruption and conflict of interest) was published by the Center for Empowerment of Governance and the Academic Jihad Society. In this newsletter, which covers the period from 5 to 11 October 2019, an analysis of politicization and misunderstanding in dealing with the conflict of interests is presented. Also, the positions of cyberspace users regarding the conflict of interests and its dimensions have been investigated and analyzed in the period of the newsletter.
The selection of news, analysis and main reports of last week in the field of conflict of interest is as follows:
The project “Management of Conflict of Interest in Tehran Municipality” was approved by members of Tehran City Council. Bahare Arvin, the proposer of this plan, said: This plan has been completed after the investigations carried out in 9 sections and 18 articles.
The plan to form a “Council for pricing and adoption of support policies for basic agricultural products” has been designed in the parliament, the purpose of which is to manage the conflict of interests in the guaranteed purchase of wheat by the government; According to the designers, the Economic Council is present in the pricing process on behalf of the government and as a buyer, it wants to buy wheat at lower prices, and because of the conflict of interest, it usually ignores the price offered by farmers.
Ahmad Midari, the deputy of social welfare of the Ministry of Cooperation, Labor and Social Welfare, explained the conflict of interests in education and its immediate impact on the lives of Iranian families through the flawed entrance exam mechanism in the Asker TV program.
Salar Ghasemi, Director General of Education of Alborz province, in a report on the management of conflicts of interest in education of this province, announced that three members of the supervisory councils of non-governmental schools of the province were involved in this law, that these people, immediately after the instructions were issued, stopped The activities of their educational units took place.
Mohsen Zanganeh, head of the Parliament’s Budget Structure Reform Committee, in response to the question why the budget is not in plain language and understandable for the general public, said: These complications in the budget are due to the conflict of interests, because our budget can be up to 10 pages.
Hossein Masoum, the legal advisor of the Minister of Roads and Urban Development announced the diligent pursuit of the conflict of interest directive in the engineering system.
Saeed Abbasi, a member of the board of directors of the Zanjan construction engineering system organization, was removed from the board of directors of this organization due to a conflict of interest after being appointed as the deputy mayor of Zanjan.
In an analysis, Moussa Ghaninejad (economist) stated that the conflict of interests is the source of the failure of deregulation policies: “The main problem in the failure of deregulation lies in the fact that the institutions and people who have established the regulations themselves are supposed to remove these regulations.”
According to the report of Quds Online, the Urban Renewal Organization has published a letter to the Mayor of Mashhad describing the violations in the context of Mashhad, including the conflict of interests that occurred in this field.
According to the latest report of the Ethics and Citizen Responsibility Watch in Washington, US President Donald Trump has created more than 3,400 cases of conflicts and conflicts of interest since he won the presidency in 2017.
https://iran-bssc.ir/?p=11974
This post is written by monese_ghamgosar