How Argentina ranked in the ranking of corruption – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

In Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index (CPI), Argentina again ranked 85th out of the 180 countries surveyed. It maintains a slight upward trend since 2015, but away from neighboring countries such as Uruguay and Chile. The least corrupt is Denmark.

In 2018, Argentina has improved only one point in terms of transparency, which left it in the same position, 85, in the ranking of the 180 countries audited in the ## 148 ## 39: Corruption Perception Index (CPI), prepared by the Transparencia organization. Internationale

New Zealand follows it on the board with one point less. Third place is shared by Finland, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland. The last of the table is Somalia.

With 40 points out of 100 possible, according to information provided by Poder Ciudadano, the local of Transparency International, Argentina remains below the global average of 43 points for the perception of corruption. Our country is linked to the Republic of Benin (West African country); below Turkey and above China.

At the regional level, Argentina does not stand out either: it is located in 16 of the 32 countries. Canada (81 points) leads the US, followed by the United States (71) and Uruguay (70), which completes the podium. In the background is Venezuela in convulsions (with 18 points).

"The public sector continues to be perceived with a high degree of corruption, we are still very far from our neighbors, Uruguay and Chile, and below the continent average, which shows that 39, there is still much to do, "said Delia Ferreira Rubio, president of Transparencia Internationale In the third year of Mauricio Macri's administration, the country has been following a slight trend since Cambiemos came to power. In 2017, he scored 39 points out of 100; and 36 in 2016, which put him in 95th place. However, during the second term of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the perception of corruption was different: in 2015 and 2014, she was ranked 107th (losing two points); in 2013, in 106 and in 2012, in 102. It is the evolution of all the countries audited from 2012 to 2017.

To explain the "small advance of Argentina", Poder Ciudadano highlighted some transparency regulations that have been sanctioned in recent years under the name of law on access to information ; the law of the repentant, used in the case of "Cuadernos K"; and the law on the criminal liability of legal persons, among others. However, for the NGO, "the government continues to set obstacles to access information that they consider sensitive," citing the recent case of income and expenditure data of the fifth presidential Olivos. "The challenge of Argentina continues to be detached from this group of countries considered highly corrupt, for whom it is essential to enforce the sanctioned anti-corruption laws and above all to enhance the effectiveness of justice, whose functioning guarantees impunity in our country. " said Pablo Secchi, executive director of Poder Ciudadano.